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Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi, Lucrezia Masci, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Monica Bini, Alexander Francke, Ilaria Isola, Carlo Ricotta, Laura Sadori, Alexander Sarantis, Sławomir Sprawski, Jakub Sypiański, Irene Tunno, Cristiano Vignola, Bernd Wagner, Giovanni Zanchetta, Adam Izdebski   +15 more
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Digital nomadism from the perspective of places and mobilities: a literature review

European Transport Research Review
Digital nomadism (DN), an emerging lifestyle based on remote working, digital technology, and leisure travels, has grown from a marginal phenomenon concerning isolated individuals in the early 2000s to a flourishing movement in less than two decades.
Alberica Bozzi
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Diet and Oral Health of Scythian Populations in Ukraine (700–200 bce): Evidence for Grain Consumption and Food Processing

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examined whether Scythian‐era populations living in different ecological zones had distinctive oral health patterns during the Iron Age. Our interdisciplinary approach should clarify whether these populations had different diets or behavioral practices.
Teresa Runge, James A. Johnson, Sergey Makhortykh, Ludmilla Litvinova, Svetlana Andrukh, Gennady Toschev, Alicia R. Ventresca‐Miller   +6 more
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Phenomenon of Movement in the Life and Culture of Nomadic Kazakhs across the Frontier Zone, Late 19th to Early 20th Century

Oriental Studies, 2023
Introduction. Nomads once maximally incorporated into nature and surrounding landscapes had tended to retain their identity through the pastoral way of life, way of thinking, and mentality.
Svetlana I. Kovalskaya, Sergey V. Lyubichankovskiy   +1 more
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“Anytime, Anywhere”: Online Language Tutoring Platforms and the Rise of the (Im)Mobile Language Teacher

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how online tutoring platforms (OTPs) have facilitated new forms of (im)mobility—and discourses of (im)mobility—among online English tutors. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with online tutors, the article critically interrogates OTPs' primary selling point: that online tutors can work “anytime, anywhere.” While OTPs ...
Nate Ming Curran
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Warrior Burial from “Vysokaya Mogila – Studenikin Mar” Necropolis: New Finds of Defensive Armor of the Southern Urals Early Nomads

Нижневолжский археологический вестник
The article publishes a warrior burial from the Southern Urals. In the kurgan with specific features of the South Ural nomads’ elite burial rite, a central dromos with an individual burial of a nomadic military nobility representative was studied. In the
Sergey V. Sirotin, Konstantin S. Okorokov, Daria S. Bogachuk   +2 more
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
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Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
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An Overview of the Rock Art of AlUla: Tracing Changes in Content and Form Across 12,000 Years of Human History

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin, Laura Morabito, Hannah Leighton, Tahani AlMahmoud   +3 more
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