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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann, Simon Fries, Bobomullo Bobomulloev, Muhsin Bobomulloev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minimally Destructive Radiocarbon Dating of Bone. [PDF]

Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom
Higham T, Luftensteiner K, van der Sluis L, Giannì M, Wiegele M, Papadogianni A, Steier P, Gruber D, Schmidt B, Schmidt K, Belinski A, Mensan R, Kozlikin M, Shunkov M, Neruda P, Nerudová Z, Horejs B, Schulze J, Douka K, Stafford TW.   +19 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Specialised and persistent raw material procurement by humans in the Middle Pleistocene. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Will M, Sommer C, Möller GHD, Botha GA, Blessing MA, Msimanga L, Mazel A, Val A, Venditti F, Riedesel S.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
wiley   +1 more source

Decoding Natufian mortuary practices through the taphonomy of an experimental burial. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Alperson-Afil N, Rabinovich R.
europepmc   +1 more source

The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

The late arrival of domestic cats in China via the Silk Road after 3,500 years of human-leopard cat commensalism. [PDF]

Cell Genom
Han Y, Hu S, Liu K, Xu X, Li Z, Doherty S, Jamieson AE, Manin A, Martins SG, Yang M, Yu C, Wang J, Wu Z, Chen C, Han S, Lu D, Peng L, Wu X, Fan W, Cai Q, Cui Z, Yuan J, Li Z, Liu Y, Li Z, Liu Z, Ma Q, Shao J, Sun Z, Xing F, Yang W, Yang S, Yue L, Zhang P, Wang W, Zhang-Zheng H, Zhuang Y, Sun X, Pan Y, Wu X, Frantz LAF, Yu H, Alves JM, Larson G, Luo SJ.   +44 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Care‐Based Disruption, Creative Practice and Collaborative Empathetic Histories

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum essay examines the value of collaboration when creatively engaging with history as a means of developing empathy, care, and understanding. Creative and collaborative histories provide space to address the harmful misconceptions and preconceptions entangled in capitalist and colonial narratives.
SIERRA MCKINNEY, KATHERINE COOK
wiley   +1 more source

The seasonality experiment: Investigating how seasons affect the burning conditions of cremations. [PDF]

PLoS One
Stamataki E, De Mulder G, Hermans R, Vercauteren M, Snoeck C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source