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Mythogeographies of anthropological knowledge: writing over the lines and footsteps of history in Southwest China

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
wiley   +1 more source

Neue Inschriften aus Bilecik 1

Gephyra, 2022
This article primarily introduces new inscriptions found in Bilecik province, most of which are preserved today in Bilecik Museum, although, some inscriptions remain in the field.
Hüseyin Uzunoğlu, Nalan Eda Akyürek Şahin   +1 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

The Architecture of Large Kurgans of the Scythians and Their Periphery: A Challenge for Magnetometer Prospections in the Eurasian Steppe Belt

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 507-524, July/September 2025.
ABSTRACT The burial mounds of the early Iron Age, which we will refer to below as kurgans, from the nomadic equestrian warriors of Eurasia, form a very complex group of archaeological monuments. Archaeological excavations in Aržan 2 (Siberia) and Aleksandropol (Ukraine) show that the large burial mounds are complex architectural constructions.
Jörg W. E. Fassbinder, Anton Gass
wiley   +1 more source

THE ROLE OF IRON AGE STELAE IN THE CREATION OF A SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 159-181, May 2025.
Summary This paper investigates a complex archaeological landscape on the Iberian peninsula’s Atlantic coast. The present‐day landscape is characterized by dense forest and abrupt topography, posing challenges for a systematic research program of landscape archaeology.
Jagoba Hidalgo‐Masa, Jesús García Sánchez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two Greek funerary stelae from Lydia and the Antonine plague [PDF]

, 2009
Publication of two funerary stelae from the area of Saittae (Asia Minor), with a study of mortality rates during the great plague in the later second century AD.status ...
Broux, Yanne, Clarysse, Willy
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Stone products of the Roman municipium of Neviodunum, Pannonia (modern Drnovo, Slovenia)

Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 284-312, April 2025.
Abstract The paper presents the lithologies used in the stone products of Neviodunum (modern Drnovo in Slovenia), a Roman municipium in south‐western Pannonia. For this purpose, 95 stone monuments were assessed. Petrographic and biostratigraphic analyses were carried out on 56 archaeological and 57 geological samples.
Katharina Zanier, Rok Brajkovič, Luka Gale, Matevž Novak   +3 more
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Color analysis of ancient Egyptian paintings and its applications in modern digital visualization

Color Research &Application, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 4-24, January/February 2025.
Abstract This study aims to identify the color preferences of ancient Egyptian paintings and their cultural and historical reasons through color analysis, and consequently introduce a color collection of ancient Egyptian painting colors for color matching of modern digital images.
Qiaoling Zeng
wiley   +1 more source

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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Marble Plaques in Tombstones from the Southern Suburb of Tauric Chersonesos

Hyperboreus
During the excavations of the necropolis in the Southern Suburb of Chersonesos in 2021–2023, eight marble tombstone plaques with inscriptions were discovered.
Natalia Pavlichenko
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