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Mother of the Nation? The Digital Appropriation of Shanidar Z in Kurdish and Regional Identity Politics

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the reconstruction of Shanidar Z, a 75,000‐year‐old Neanderthal woman discovered in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, became a focal point for digital negotiations of identity, ancestry, and belonging. Drawing on 51 Facebook and YouTube posts and 17,126 associated comments in Kurdish, Arabic and English, the study ...
Dana Sofi
wiley   +1 more source

Subject index and checklist of history and archaeology dissertations and research essays submitted at the University of Botswana, 1976 - 1998

, 2009
Four MA dissertations and 222 BA research essays are listed alphabetically, and indexed by reference number under three subject categories-geographical area (by district, etc.), ethnic group, and a general subject index of 42 headings.
Shillington, Kevin, Parsons, Q. N., Hitchcock, R. K., Darkwah, Kofi   +3 more
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A Japanese dentist immigrant described by the writer, Chihei Nakamura, during the Japanese colonial period. [PDF]

J Dent Sci
Cheng FC, Wang LH, Chang WH, Chiang CP.
europepmc   +1 more source

A STEP IN STONE. ONTOLOGIES OF PODOMORPHIC PETROGLYPHS IN SOUTHERN SCANDINAVIAN BRONZE AGE

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.
Summary During the Bronze Age, a particular type of podomorphic petroglyph was produced on the outcrops by the sea in southern Scandinavia. In this text, their distribution, organization and articulation are analyzed in the Mälaren region of central‐eastern Sweden.
Fredrik Fahlander
wiley   +1 more source

The archaeology of Zoroastrianism

, 2019
My thesis compiles a list of attributes that can be used to archaeologically identify the ancient religion of Zoroastrianism. To do so, I reviewed literature written on the archaeology of religion and what factors indicate that a certain religion was ...
Megan Elizabeth Hall
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CONNECTIVITY AND CHANGE: GLAZED POTTERY NETWORKS IN THE MEDIEVAL EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (ELEVENTH–FOURTEENTH CENTURIES AD)

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.
Summary This paper investigates the economic and political transformations of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean (late eleventh to mid‐fourteenth centuries AD) through the lens of material culture and Social Network Analysis (SNA). Using the distribution of seven types of glazed pottery as archaeological indicators, the study examines changing patterns
Katerina Ragkou
wiley   +1 more source

Guided tours in historical and religious sites: emotional restoration and the role of individual differences. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Miola L, Furlan G, Montanari G, Guidarelli G, Svalduz E, Bonetto J, Giordano A, Pazzaglia F.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient <i>Borrelia</i> genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever. [PDF]

Science
Swali P, Booth T, Tan CCS, McCabe J, Anastasiadou K, Barrington C, Borrini M, Bricking A, Buckberry J, Büster L, Carlin R, Gilardet A, Glocke I, Irish JD, Kelly M, King M, Petchey F, Peto J, Silva M, Speidel L, Tait F, Teoaca A, Valoriani S, Williams M, Madgwick R, Mullan G, Wilson L, Cootes K, Armit I, Gutierrez MG, van Dorp L, Skoglund P.   +31 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
wiley   +1 more source