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Conservar Património, 2018 A wooden coffin lid, of unknown provenance, with ground and colored layers and an ancient textile, was found at the Egyptian Museum basement in Cairo (JE 36806).
Nour Mohamed Badr +3 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 365-383, June 2026.Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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Do You See What I See? Aspects of Color Choice and Perception in Ancient Egyptian Painting
Open Archaeology, 2018 Color in ancient Egypt has been examined through linguistics, anthropological theory and archaeological science. In recent years, attention has focused on the application of art historical theories of reception and perception to ancient Egyptian art, but
Strong Meghan E.
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On Being Receptive: Listening and Compliance on a University Campus
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 249-258, June 2026.ABSTRACT How should you listen when you hear about harms in interpersonal life, such as sexual harassment or anti‐Black racism? Across a range of sites on a university campus, from bystander intervention workshops to reporting systems for sex‐ and gender‐based misconduct, we spotlight the way “listening” is mobilized to address harms of various kinds ...
Michael Lempert +2 more
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The Goddess Hetmeit (Hitmīt ) and her role in Ancient Egyptian Religion.
Journal of General Union of Arab ArchaeologistsThis Study Aims to reinterpret the role and nature of the goddess Hitmīt in the ancient Egyptian afterlife by examining her functions, symbols, names and titles through funerary texts and books of the afterlife, while addressing the research gap ...
Reda Khalifa Ibrahim Hassan +1 more
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 298-310, June 2026.ABSTRACT This study presents the first GC‐MS–based analyses of wide horizontal rim vessels with well‐defined funerary contexts, from Middle Bronze Age Portugal (Quinta do Amorim 2 and Pego). Organic residues from two vessels revealed ruminant fats and plant oils, alongside molecular markers of heat exposure.
João Vinícius Back +5 more
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 409-420, June 2026.ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark +2 more
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Medicine for the Material World
Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 434-439, June 2026.ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
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Mapping Disjuncture: Internationalism and Palestine
Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This paper reflects on a ‘Map Conversation’ session at the 2024 RGS‐IBG Annual Conference, that explored maps of the League of Nations and Palestine. The authors contrast maps promoting global consciousness in the 1920s with those charting colonial encroachment in Palestine.
Zena Agha, Jake Hodder
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