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Spirit, mind and body: the archaeology of monastic healing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Archaeology and material culture are used in this chapter to consider how monastic experience responded to illness, ageing and disability. The approach taken is influenced by the material study of religion, which interrogates how bodies and things engage
Gilchrist, Roberta
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Judean Pillar Figurines and Ethnic Identity in the Shadow of Assyria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
An examination of Judean Pillar Figurines in relation to cultural discourse and identity construction in the late Iron-Age ...
Ian Wilson
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Prologues, Poetry, Prose and Portrayals

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
Although by far the most popular use of fifteenth century Fight Books in recent years has been their application to the study of Historical European Martial Arts and interpretations of medieval combat, this manner of learning from them was rarely what ...
Jacob Henry Deacon
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Living amongst the Dead: Life at the Ancient Memphite Necropolis of Saqqara during the Late Period/Early Ptolemaic Era

open access: yesHeritage, 2022
The Memphite Necropolis of Saqqara is situated approximately 20 km south of modern Cairo on a plateau at the edge of the western desert and was in use as a funerary site for a period of nearly three and a half millennia.
Scott Williams
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Bowls, Bobbins and Bones: Resolving the human remains crisis in British archaeology, a response [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In 2010 and 2011 a series of articles appeared in British Archaeology describing a crisis surrounding the archaeological investigation of human remains.
Sayer, Duncan
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The orientation of the Mithraea in Ostia Antica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We conducted an investigation on the orientations and geometrical content of the Mithraea of Ostia Antica. A geometrical CAD study based on the most reliable plans from the Archives of the Sovrintendenza Speciale per il Colosseo, il MNR e l’Area ...
Carnevale, Flavio   +6 more
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Prologues, Poetry, Prose and Portrayals: The Purposes of Fifteenth Century Fight Books According to the Diplomatic Evidence

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
Although by far the most popular use of fifteenth century Fight Books in recent years has been their application to the study of Historical European Martial Arts and interpretations of medieval combat, this manner of learning from them was rarely what ...
Deacon Jacob Henry
doaj   +1 more source

A Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Qur’an Translation in Its Indian Context

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This essay places the Washington Library of Congress Heb. Ms 183, a Hebrew Qur’an translation from eighteenth-century Cochin, in its South Indian context.
Alexander Van der Haven
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Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This work examines the use of memory and tradition in the Christianization of the Peloponnese based on the evidence of the location and topography of churches.
Sweetman, Rebecca Jane
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Crops and Culture: Dispersal of African Millets to the Indian Subcontinent and its Cultural Consequences

open access: yesDhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2012
In this paper I will discuss the spread of African crops to the Indian subcontinent. The spread was probably related to the Indus civilizations trading network in the Indian Ocean during the late 3rd millennium BC. It was at this time African food plants,
Randi Haaland
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