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Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT Numerous buildings, monuments, and infrastructural works in Verona were constructed during the Roman period using stone, a material abundantly available from quarrying areas located relatively close to the city. Petrographic investigations conducted by Transmitted Polarized Light Optical Microscopy (TPL‐OM) and complemented by colorimetric ...
Eliana Bridi +3 more
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Frontière·sThis article presents an examination of the Romano-African stelae workshops in Algeria, with a particular focus on the regions surrounding the cities of Caesarea and Sitifis.
Amel Bouder
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT At Monte dos Zebros (Idanha‐a‐Nova, Central Portugal), the discovery of three stelae—two Iberian Late Bronze Age stelae and one fragment of an Early/Middle Bronze Age anthropomorphic stela—represents a rare case of rock art monuments from different chronologies coexisting in the same place within a broader archaeological landscape, which ...
Rafael Ferreiro Mählmann +4 more
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, 2020 The false door, later replaced by the stele, can be traced in the archaeological record from the end of the Old Kingdom to the beginning of the Middle Kingdom.
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 597-611, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Birds have played both subsistence and symbolic roles in past human societies, with their significance evolving alongside sedentary lifestyles and agriculture. Although Neolithic settlements in Western Asia primarily relied on domesticated mammals, birds remained a marginal resource, their importance varying by region.
Marcel van Tuinen +6 more
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Ceremonial Execution and Public Rewards: Some Historical Scenes on New Kingdom Private Stelae [PDF]
, 1988 The repertoire of scenes on Egyptian private stelae is relatively limited to scenes of the funerary banquet, of the deceased receiving offerings, or making them. About the reign of Thutmose IV in the New Kingdom, and lasting through the end of Dynasty 20,
Schulman, Alan R.
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New Funerary Stelae and Inscriptions from the Territory of Idyma
Gephyra, 2013 In this paper, four grave stelae from Muğla Museum are studied. The stelae were found in the year 2010 in the territory of Idyma, an ancient city of south-western Caria.
Güray Ünver, Asil Yaman
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 39-51, November 2025.ABSTRACT Since 2020, the Saudi‐French Archaeological and Epigraphic Mission to Najrān (MAFSN) has been conducting additional archaeological surveys and small‐scale excavations in the Ḥimā area, providing a wealth of data from different historical periods.
Silvia Lischi +3 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 808-829, September 2025.In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
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ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 422-452, September 2025.ABSTRACT This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to situate the diverse collections within ongoing debates about art restitution.
Arielle Xena Alterwaite
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