Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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Correction: Huang et al. Early Evidence of Post-Mortem Fetal Extrusion in Equids: A Case from the Western Zhou Period (1045-771 BC) Site of Yaoheyuan in Northwestern China. <i>Animals</i> 2024, <i>14</i>, 2106. [PDF]
Huang Z +7 more
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Between the Indian Ocean and the Gulf: Ceramics From Ḥattā Oasis in the Emirate of Dubai
ABSTRACT This study presents the ceramic finds from archaeological investigations conducted in 2024 at two settlements: ‘Islamic Village' and Suhaila 2, one of a number of mountain villages of the Late Islamic period within the Ḥattā Oasis: a high‐altitude exclave in the Emirate of Dubai. The sites are located on the northeastern slopes of Jabal Qallāt
Seth M. N. Priestman +3 more
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Retraction: Evidence of brucellosis infection in the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery. [PDF]
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Exploring matrilocality in history: insights from ancient DNA. [PDF]
Seferidou E, Atağ G.
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ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud +4 more
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Ancient genomes uncover dynamic cultural and genetic interplay in the eastern Tianshan. [PDF]
Yang X +10 more
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Hormonal Hinterlands: Mapping a Materialist Prehistory of Trans Medicine
ABSTRACT This article reexamines social histories of sex hormones in relation to critical theories of trans embodiment. It aims to foreground the entanglement of medical transition's materials in the uneven development of space, labor, and value under racial capitalism.
Danny Foster
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Stable isotope analysis reveals Bronze Age diets at Deh Dumen Iran. [PDF]
Maghsoud EM, Koochakzaei A, Naseri R.
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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