Results 41 to 50 of about 430 (141)

From hunter‐gatherers to food producers: New dental insights into the Nile Valley population history (Late Paleolithic–Neolithic)

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 184, Issue 4, August 2024.
Abstract Objectives This study presents biological affinities between the last hunter‐fisher‐gatherers and first food‐producing societies from the Nile Valley. We investigate odontometric and dental tissue proportion changes between these populations from the Middle Nile Valley and acknowledge the biological processes behind them.
Nicolas Martin, Adrien Thibeault, Lenka Varadzinová, Stanley H. Ambrose, Daniel Antoine, Petra Brukner Havelková, Matthieu Honegger, Joel D. Irish, Piotr Osypiński, Donatella Usai, Nicolas Vanderesse, Ladislav Varadzin, Rebecca J. Whiting, Petr Velemínský, Isabelle Crevecoeur   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ship Depicted on the North Colonnade of the Great Mosque at Damascus: A Nilotic Theme or the Representation of Paradise?

Journal of Mosaic Research, 2015
This paper will bring for the first time an in-depth study of the ship depicted in the mosaic on the east pier of the north colonnade of the courtyard in the Great Mosque at Damascus.
Zaraza Friedman
doaj  

Short‐term climatic oscillations versus long‐term delta propagation: Controls on sand transport into the deep Levant Basin since the Pliocene

Basin Research, Volume 36, Issue 4, July–August 2024.
Spatiotemporal evolution of the Nile delta during the Pliocene‐Quaternary. This study provide the first well record of the 100 s‐m‐thick Plio‐Quaternary deep Levant Basin section. This paper shows that Sand–shale ratio inferred from Gamma Ray logs illustrates changes in terrigenous supply into the Levant basin.
Ido Sirota, Yoav Ben Dor, Zohar Gvirtzman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building Text and Speech Benchmark Datasets and Models for Low‐Resourced East African Languages: Experiences and Lessons

Applied AI Letters, Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2024.
This paper discusses the process taken to create, curate and annotate text and speech corpus for low‐resourced languages in East Africa. ABSTRACT Africa has over 2000 languages; however, those languages are not well represented in the existing natural language processing ecosystem.
Joyce Nakatumba‐Nabende, Claire Babirye, Peter Nabende, Jeremy Francis Tusubira, Jonathan Mukiibi, Eric Peter Wairagala, Chodrine Mutebi, Tobius Saul Bateesa, Alvin Nahabwe, Hewitt Tusiime, Andrew Katumba   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated 3D forward stratigraphic and petroleum system modeling of the Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean

, 2019
International audienceThe Eastern Mediterranean Levant Basin is a proven hydrocarbon province with recent major gas discoveries. To date, no exploration wells targeted its northern part, in particular the Lebanese offshore. The present study assesses the
Fadi Henri Nader, Barabasch, Jessica, Littke, Ralf, Jessica Barabasch, Bou Daher, Samer, Samer Bou Daher, Nader, Fadi Henri, Mathieu Ducros, Hawie, Nicolas, Ducros, Mathieu, Nicolas Hawie, Ralf Littke   +11 more
core   +1 more source

The Epistemology and Ontology of the Chamus in Kenya: The Human Body as Nature [PDF]

, 2008
This paper explores the way the Chamus of northern Kenya, belonging to the Maa group of the Eastern-Nilotic language family, speak extremely physically of the facts pertaining to the bodies and bodily phenomena.
KAWAI, Kaori
core   +1 more source

Alignment systems and passive-antipassive distribution in nilotic languages

, 2015
This paper discusses the occurrence of passive and antipassive constructions in Nilotic languages in relation to the question of whether Nilotic languages developed from an ergative-absolutive to a nominativeaccusative case marking system or vice ...
Schröder, Helga
core  

Grammatical Sketch and Short Vocabulary of the Ogiek Language of Mariashoni [PDF]

, 2018
Ogiek is a Nilo-Saharan, Satellite-Core, Core, Eastern Sudanic, Southern, Nilotic,Southern, Kalenjin language spoken by a community of Hunters and Gatherers living in the region of the Eastern Escarpement of the Mau Forest in Kenya. In the framework of a
Micheli Ilaria, Micheli, Ilaria
core  

ENDRE STIANSEN AND MICHAEL KEVANE, ED., Kordofan Invaded: Peripheral Incorporation and Social Transformation in Islamic Africa (Boston: Brill, 1998). Pp. 319. $94 cloth.

, 2000
The history of Sudan still reflects the country's struggle to find its identity between Middle Eastern and African studies. Even within Sudan, there are spheres of interest ranging from the expanding ancient studies of Nubia to the protracted conflict ...
Richard Lobban
core   +1 more source

A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Community-Based Income Sharing [PDF]

This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria--the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with different ...
Felkey, Amanda, Basu, Kaushik
core