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A quantitative analysis of worldwide long-term technology growth: From 40,000 BCE to the early 22nd century

, 2020
The authors quantitatively analyse the long-term dynamics of technological progress from 40,000 BCE and offer projections through the 22nd century. We provide one method to measure technological progress over that time period, using a simple hyperbolic ...
L. Grinin, A. Grinin, Andrey Korotayev
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Upanishads ca. 500 BCE–200 BCE

2011
The Upanishads are a collection of Hindu sacred texts that were recorded in Sanskrit over the course of some two thousand years, through the end of the Middle Ages. The majority were composed between 500 bce and 200 ce but likely began earlier in an oral tradition. They are meant to be read in the form of instruction, teaching, or dialogue between guru
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Greek Domestic Architecture c. 800 bce to c. 100 bce

2021
This article discusses research on the housing of culturally-Greek settlements dating between c. 800 bce and c. 100 bce but with an emphasis on the central part of this period, and offers an overview of the various approaches. (Information on individual sites can be found by consulting the volumes listed under Period-Specific Overviews).
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Regional pastoral practice in central and southeastern Kazakhstan in the Final Bronze Age (1300–900 BCE)

Archaeological Research in Asia, 2017
Detailed zooarcheological analysis of three settlements dating to the Final Bronze Age (c. 1300–900 BCE) in central and southeastern Kazakhstan revealed the influence of cultural and environmental factors on pastoral subsistence strategies. The period is
A. Haruda
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Violence trends in the ancient Middle East between 12,000 and 400 bce

Nature Human Behaviour, 2023
Joerg Baten, Giacomo Benati, Arkadiusz Sołtysiak   +2 more
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Western Zhou (1045 BCE - 771 BCE)

Recording the state of our knowledge in March-April 2024, this entry on Western Zhou (circa 1045/1046 BCE - 771 BCE) examines the best/most creditable known primary and secondary sources (including archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence), data analysis, and approaches to and interpretations of the subject matter.
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Religion and Politics under the Ptolemies (300 BCE-215 BCE)

Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 2010
The article examines the relation that is developed between the policy and the religion in Hellenistic Egypt during the period of the first four Ptolemies. It presents two levels of promotion of the practice of deification of the king: on the one hand the recognition of divine nature from the descendants of each king when he or she dies and on the ...
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Adaptive Spatial-BCE Loss for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

European Conference on Computer Vision, 2022
Tong Wu, Guangyu Gao, Junshi Huang, Xiaolin Wei, Xiaoming Wei, C. Liu   +5 more
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Orphic Tablets and Hymns ca. 400 BCE–300 BCE

2011
Orpheus is one the most familiar figures from Greek mythology but also one of the most mysterious. His priests were denounced as charlatans by the philosopher Plato in classical Greece, yet the figure of Orpheus was used as a bulwark against the threat Christianity posed to the last followers of traditional Greek religion in the Roman Empire.
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Ancient Egyptian Warfare (3000 BCE–332 BCE)

The culture of Egyptian history spans millennia. Hence, we can see major changes (developments, innovations, borrowings from abroad) as well as the persistence of organizational stability. Add to this the slow growth in corporate identity of the state’s army as well as its technological changes.
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