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Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares +5 more
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Marketless trading in Hammurabi’s time: A re-appraisal [PDF]
In this article I revisit Karl Polanyi’s writings on ancient Mesopotamia. I begin by situating them in the context of his general approach to trade, markets and money in the ancient world. Next, I reconstruct his major theses on Mesopotamia, drawing upon
Dale, G
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This paper contributes to the on-going research into the ways in which the humanities transformed the natural sciences in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. By investigating the relationship between hermeneutics -- as developed by Herder
Abu Zayd +418 more
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The Work of Tragic Productions: Towards a New History of Drama as Labor Culture [PDF]
Preliminary analysis of the representation of laborers in Greek tragedy and satyr ...
David Roselli
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Colonial engagements in the global Mediterranean Iron Age [PDF]
The application of globalization theory to colonial contexts in recent years has emphasized articulations of the colonized and the colonizers. For the Mediterranean Iron Age, focus has been upon expressions of local (colonized) identities, and of ...
Hodos, T
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Let's work together! Economic cooperation, social capital, and chances of social mobility in classical Athens [PDF]
In the early fourth centurybc, a slave of possibly Phoenician origin, called Pasion, was owned by the Athenian bankers Antisthenes and Archestratos (Dem. 36.43).
Deene, Marloes
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From value to desirability: the allure of worldly things [PDF]
In this paper, the author takes the approach that value is a judgment that people make about things based on desire, and the potential of the effects those things engender.
Harris, Susanna
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The serialized past: archaeology news online [PDF]
Maintaining the public’s interest in the past has long been a major concern among archaeologists, and practitioners since Mortimer Wheeler have appreciated the value of reporting their finds through mass media outlets (Moshenska and Schadla-Hall 2011 ...
Maldonado, Adrian
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Siteless Survey and Intensive Data Collection in an Artifact-rich Environment: Case Studies from the Eastern Corinthia, Greece [PDF]
Archaeological survey in the eastern Mediterranean has become increasingly intensive over the last 20 years, producing greater and more diverse data for smaller units of space.
David K. Pettegrew +2 more
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The Measure of All Gods: Religious Paradigms of the Antiquity as Anthropological Invariants [PDF]
Purpose of the article is the reconstruction of ancient Greek and ancient Roman models of religiosity as anthropological invariants that determine the patterns of thinking and being of subsequent eras. Theoretical basis.
Halapsis, Alex V.
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