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Exploring mudbrick architecture and its re-use in Artaxata, Armenia, during the 1st millennium BC. A multidisciplinary study of earthen architecture in the Armenian Highlands. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Lorenzon M +7 more
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Medicine for the Material World
Archaeometry, EarlyView.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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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot +2 more
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The Failure of the Aetolian Deditio as a Didactic Cultural Clash in the Histories of Polybius (20.9-10) [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines the Aetolian deditio in fidem of 191 as described by Polybius 20.9-10. Erich Gruen influentially interpreted Polybius’ description as inconsistent and exaggerated, on the grounds that Greeks and Romans from the 3rd and 2nd centuries ...
Moreno Leoni, Álvaro Matías
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi +3 more
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Layers of powers: societies and institutions in Europe [PDF]
, 2010 Historians and social scientists have offered many and varied definitions of the term “community”. This chapter focuses on specific examples of face-to-face or local communities in order to test the possibilities and limits of the two major analytical ...
Amelang, J. +4 more
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that philosophical practice can complement existing medical ethics structures by offering a publicly accessible space for discourse and negotiation of basic concepts that are relevant to ethical decision making. The potential of collaboration becomes particularly evident by the example of assisted dying: it raises a wide ...
Patrick Schuchter +3 more
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Les Carnets de l’ACoStThe open access volume examines terracotta figurines depicting women and children discovered in Cyprus, the Levant, the Greek world, Sardinia, and the Iberian Peninsula, and dating from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period.
Marianna Castiglione, Ida Oggiano
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Active employees in the future workplace: From job crafting to selfergetic job crafting
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract The job crafting theory implies, but does not explicitly present the relationship between the self and the job. To fill the gap, we theorize upon the holistic view of the self, and selfergy, a new concept reflecting the unique manner by which employees craft their jobs. Based on the principles of the self‐determination theory, we have advanced
Louiza Paraskevopoulou +3 more
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The tradition of an ancient Greek colony in Malta [PDF]
, 1983 The persistent tradition of a Greek colonization of the Maltese Islands in ancient times was inspired mainly by ancient literary allusions. These are basically 1) the identification of the Homeric island of Ogygia, Calypso's refuge, with Malta; 2) the ...
Bonanno, Anthony
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