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Do Ut Des – the Relation of Material History and Archaeology of Religion to the Study of Religions*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 726-758, December 2022., 2022 Archaeology as “material history” and the study of religions mutually reciprocate through their shared interest in the ability of people to establish memories and create imaginaries. Starting from this presupposition, the article evaluates the approaches used in archaeology to analyse the practices of past peoples.
Anna‐Katharina Rieger
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Nonmarine Ostracoda as proxies in (geo‐)archaeology — A review
Geoarchaeology, Volume 37, Issue 5, Page 711-732, September/October 2022., 2022 Abstract Ostracods as bioindicators are extremely useful for reconstructing palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate and can also indicate the provenance of sediments and materials, for example, in studies on ancient commercial networks. Ostracods are small crustaceans that live in almost all aquatic habitats, both natural and man‐made.
Ella Quante, Anna Pint, Peter Frenzel
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Patricia Crone and the “secular tradition” of early Islamic historiography: An exegesis
History Compass, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Patricia Crone famously identified three distinct sub‐traditions within early Islamic historiography: a “religious tradition”, a “tribal tradition”, and a “secular tradition”. Whereas the first is extremely unreliable and the second is partially unreliable regarding early Islamic history in general (c.
Joshua J. Little
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thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2020 Margarites Demitsas was one of the pioneers on the field of Ancient Macedonian epigraphy in the 19th century and the editor of its first corpus containing all hitherto known inscriptions of the region.
Charalampos Chrysafis
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De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 137-160, May 2021., 2021 This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities ...
Robert Flierman, Megan Welton
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Chic ou toc ? La fonction des bijoux déposés dans les sanctuaires grecs
Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2022 Through the analysis of the jewels described in the sacred inventories of Delos dating back to the Hellenistic period, we will attempt to understand what criteria are instrumental in determining the function of the adornments recorded in different ...
Clarisse Prêtre
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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 Over the last two decades, the identification of ancient artifacts has been regarded as one of the most challenging tasks for archaeologists. Chinese people consider these artifacts as symbols of their cultural heritage. The development of technology has helped in the identification of ancient artifacts to a greater extent.
Qiang Zhao, Vinoth Babu Kumaravelu
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IDEA e la conservazione dei dati epigrafici di EAGLE
Umanistica Digitale, 2019 Only a few disciplines have digitized the near integrity of the documentary heritage of their interest such as Latin and Greek epigraphy. With thirty years of experience in digitizing inscriptions, epigraphy has achieved this result, but it has also ...
Pietro Maria Liuzzo +3 more
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, 2023 Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 5, Page 751-766, November 2023.
Charles Beirouti
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The Database of Hellenistic Inscribed Epigrams from Doric-speaking Areas
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2023 The dataset comprises a compilation of inscriptions featuring epigrams from Ancient Greece, dated to the Hellenistic age (3rd–1st c. BC), from Doric-speaking areas, comprehensively collected for the first time.
Dalia Pratali Maffei
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