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The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East: Summary, Synthesis, Recent Studies. Part II [PDF]
, 2007 In many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling ...
Schwemer, Daniel
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Former land use affects the nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and biomass of forest herbs [PDF]
, 2011 The colonization rates of understorey plants into forests growing on former agricultural land differ remarkably among species. Different dispersal and recruitment largely account for the contrasting colonization rates, but different effects of the soil ...
Baeten, Lander +6 more
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Ancient Mitogenomes Reveal the Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Sloths.
Current Biology, 2019 Living sloths represent two distinct lineages of small-sized mammals that independently evolved arboreality from terrestrial ancestors. The six extant species are the survivors of an evolutionary radiation marked by the extinction of large terrestrial ...
Frédéric Delsuc +12 more
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An algorithm based on lightweight semantic features for ancient mural element object detection
npj Heritage ScienceThe ancient mural paintings unearthed in China are precious world cultural heritages, which record the historical information of various eras and serve as valuable image materials for studying ancient Chinese society.
Jiaquan Shen +5 more
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, 1987 While numerous ancient human DNA datasets from across Europe have been published till date, modern-day Poland in particular, remains uninvestigated. Besides application in the reconstruction of continent-wide human history, data from this region would ...
Dabert, Miroslawa +8 more
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Textile Prices in Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts. Three Case Studies
Studia Ceranea, 2020 This text analyzes three early Byzantine source accounts on clothing prices from the beginning of the 5th to the early 7th centuries in Italy (Rome), Palestine (probably in Jerusalem), and Egypt (Alexandria).
Ireneusz Milewski
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Expanding Field-Archaeology Education: The Integration of 3D Technology into Archaeological Training
Open Archaeology, 2021 This contribution analyses and discusses the use of 3D technology in education and learning. Basing the discussion on a case study performed during two seasons of a field school for 1st-year archaeology students, we explore how to expand traditional ...
Derudas Paola, Berggren Åsa
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Astrophysics: Most distant cosmic blast seen
, 2009 The most distant -ray burst yet sighted is the earliest astronomical object ever observed in cosmic history. This ancient beacon offers a glimpse of the little-known cosmic dark ages.Comment: Published in Nature News ...
B Ciardi +14 more
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Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic [PDF]
, 2000 Recent work in ancient art history has sought to move beyond formalist interpretations of works of art to a concern to understand ancient images in terms of a broader cultural, political, and historical context.
Tanner, J
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The Ancient Evolutionary History of Polyomaviruses
PLoS Pathogens, 2016 Polyomaviruses are a family of DNA tumor viruses that are known to infect mammals and birds. To investigate the deeper evolutionary history of the family, we used a combination of viral metagenomics, bioinformatics, and structural modeling approaches to ...
C. Buck +19 more
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