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PHOENICIAN RELIGION IN THE HOMELAND: New Insights from Recent Archaeological Discoveries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The article argues that there is one Phoenician religion and one Phoenician pantheon in spite of the fact that there was no such thing as a Phoenician “state” or “nation.” It also argues that in the absence of Phoenician religious texts the ...
Sader, Hélène
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Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions.

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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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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
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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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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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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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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.
Rebecca J. Sweetman   +1 more
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Muddying the Waters

open access: yesDanish Journal of Archaeology, 2022
This paper explores the current narratives of migration for the start and spread of the Neolithic with a particular focus on the role that the new ancient DNA data have provided.
Vicki Cummings   +3 more
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Say it in Iron. Symbols of Transformation and Reproduction in the European Iron Age

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2008
The European research on iron has traditionally focused on the technical and economic aspects of iron production, However, a view of metal working in a wider regional context shows that it is generally entrenched in symbolic meaning and ritual activity.
Randi Haaland
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