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Rethinking 'cattle cults' in early Egypt: Towards a prehistoric perspective on the Narmer Palette

open access: yes, 2001
The Narmer Palette occupies a key position in our understanding of the transition from Predynastic to Dynastic culture in Egypt. Previous interpretations have focused largely upon correspondences between its decorative content and later conventions of ...
Wengrow, D
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Ejok! Experience, Language, and Aesthetico-Moral Expression in Karamoja

open access: yes, 2020
This is an ethnographic study of the ethico-moral and conceptual lives of Karimojong – an agro-pastoralist Nilotic speaking community in north-eastern Uganda.
Amoah , Quincy J
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Nile behaviour and Late Palaeolithic humans in Upper Egypt during the Late Pleistocene

open access: yes, 2015
© 2015 The Authors. The reconstruction of the environment and the human population history of the Nile Valley during the Late Pleistocene have received a lot of attention in the literature thus far. There seems to be a consensus that during MIS2 extreme
Vermeersch, Pierre, Van Neer, Wim
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Ergativity in Africa

open access: yes, 2017
Perhaps the most striking feature with regard to ergativity in Africa is its absence. Africa has long been seen as a continent without ergativity. Today a number of languages are being mentioned in the literature as having ergative features, even if only
Christa Konig
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Negation in languages of the Lotuxo sub-group of Eastern Nilotic

open access: yes
Lokoya, Lopit and Otuho (Lotuxo) are Eastern Nilotic languages spoken in the area around Torit in Eastern Equatoria province, South Sudan. The three languages are verb initial (VSO) and have a marked-nominative case system.\par Negation in these languages is normally expressed through a verbal or verb-like construction.
openaire   +2 more sources

Tribes and tribalism in the Syrian uprising

open access: yes, 2014
Issue title: tribes & neighborhoods: the dynamics of subtletyThis article attempts to explain the re-emergence of tribalism in Syria. Arab tribes in Syria have retained their solidarity networks and held on to their belief in the “ideology of a common ...
Dukhan, Haian; id_orcid, Dukhan, Haian
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Fresh Water Scenes in Minoan Art

open access: yes, 2017
The goal of this dissertation is to provide a comprehensive study of scenes of fresh water in Minoan art from the Middle Minoan II (MM II) through the Late Minoan I (LM I) periods.
Pearce, Ariel Leah
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The Genetic Variation of Lactase Persistence Alleles in Sudan and South Sudan. [PDF]

open access: yesGenome Biol Evol, 2021
Hollfelder N   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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