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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

New Research Programme: Crisis, Conflict and Climate: Societal Change in Scandinavia 300–700 CE

Current Swedish Archaeology
Kerstin Lidén, Gunilla Eriksson, Sven Kalmring, Sven Isaksson, Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay, Helena Viktor   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life on the edge: Mesolithic population size and viability on Malta. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Blinkhorn J, Timbrell L, Grove M, Manica A, Mata-González M, Groucutt HS, Vella NC, Scerri EML.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

Network science reveals the structure and lasting impact of the Roman road system. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Pažout A, Brughmans T, de Soto P, Mazzamurro M, Coto-Sarmiento M, Filet C, Herrera Malatesta E, Nielsen ML, Ølgaard GE, Vahlstrup PB.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone‐built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more detailed excavation was undertaken in 2016 within one of the largest rectangular stone structures.
Khalid Alasmari, Stephanie F. Piper, Kirsten Grothe, W. Derek Hamilton, Delphine Joly, Penny Bickle, Geoff Bailey   +6 more
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Exploring mobility in Bronze Age Greece: A Sr isotope perspective. [PDF]

PLoS One
Frank AB, Moutafi I, Sabatini S, Frei R, Voutsaki S, Orgeolet R, Lambrinoudakis V, Kolonas L, Rambach J, Boyd M, Margaritis E, Kristiansen K, Frei KM.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Between the Indian Ocean and the Gulf: Ceramics From Ḥattā Oasis in the Emirate of Dubai

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
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, Agnese Kukela, Mansour Boraik, Hassan Mohammed Zein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tool-stone selection in the African Middle stone age at Sibhudu cave. [PDF]

PLoS One
Schmidt P, Nickel KG.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Late Agricultural Development of Central Arabian Oases—Archaeobotanical and Archaeozoological Studies of the al‐Kharj Oasis

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
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, Hervé Monchot, Vladimir Dabrowski, Charlène Bouchaud, Jérémie Schiettecatte   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source