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Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView., 2022
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
wiley   +1 more source

Marketless trading in Hammurabi’s time: A re-appraisal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
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
core   +1 more source

Hermeneutics and Nature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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
core   +1 more source

The Work of Tragic Productions: Towards a New History of Drama as Labor Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Preliminary analysis of the representation of laborers in Greek tragedy and satyr ...
David Roselli
core   +1 more source

Colonial engagements in the global Mediterranean Iron Age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
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
core   +2 more sources

Let's work together! Economic cooperation, social capital, and chances of social mobility in classical Athens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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
core   +1 more source

From value to desirability: the allure of worldly things [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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
core   +1 more source

The serialized past: archaeology news online [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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
core   +1 more source

Siteless Survey and Intensive Data Collection in an Artifact-rich Environment: Case Studies from the Eastern Corinthia, Greece [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
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
core   +1 more source

The Measure of All Gods: Religious Paradigms of the Antiquity as Anthropological Invariants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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.
core   +4 more sources

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