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Spartan History and Archaeology

The Classical Quarterly, 1962
ARCHAEOLOGYTHE Classical Spartans were noted for their austerity, which seemed already ancient to writers of the fifth century B.C. The early poetry and art of their country show a considerable aesthetic sense. This apparent contradiction has caused some students to conclude that the strict Lycurgan regimen was not introduced till the middle or even ...
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Archaeology and Ancient History

2004
Challenging both traditional and fashionable theories, this collection of pieces from an international range of contributors explores the separation of the human past into history, archaeology and their related sub-disciplines. Each case study challenges the validity of this separation and asks how we can move to a more holistic approach in the study ...
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Archaeology, History and Science

2016
List of IllustrationsPreface1. Why should archaeologists take history and science seriously? Marcos Martinon-Torres2. Licking knives and stone snakes: the ideology of flint knives in ancient Egypt Carolyn Graves-Brown3. Cuneiform glass texts: a question of meaning Andrew J. Shortland4. Pliny on Roman glassmaking Ian C. Freestone5.
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Antinous, Archaeology and History

Journal of Roman Studies, 2005
Antinous was the young, male lover of Hadrian. His premature death in A.D. 130 led to an oddly extravagant commemoration. Post-Renaissance he became one of the most collectable portrait types. This article re-examines the corpus of portraits as it is currently configured.
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History and Archaeology

Abstract Unlike most previous descriptions of the history of the kingdom that are based heavily on biblical narratives, this chapter, after dealing with the geographical extent of the kingdom and the problem of chronology, discusses the nature of the available sources—namely, archaeological data, epigraphic texts, iconographic materials,
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Practice and history in archaeology

Anthropological Theory, 2001
A new paradigm is emerging in archaeology herein dubbed ‘historical processualism’. A review of three contemporary approaches to the study of the past – neo-Darwinism, cognitive-processualism, and agency theory – suggests that the standard notions of ‘behavior’ and ‘evolution’ are being replaced in archaeological explanations by ‘practice’ and ...
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Alpe Borghetto: origins and evolution of a summer farm area in the Italian central Alps based on vegetation history and archaeology, Neolithic to present

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2018
D. Moe, F. Fedele
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History, Archaeology, and Mel Gibson’s Passion

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2005
Whatever else The Passion of the Christ is about, it is about history. Thus, it is important to examine the film from the perspective of history, and see how, and if, the film incorporates what we have come to know about that era. A great deal of progress has been made into the recovery of the first century C.E. in the last several decades, and much of
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Practice-Based Ontologies: A New Approach to Address the Challenges of Ontology and Knowledge Representation in History and Archaeology

International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, 2011
Emad Khazraee, M. Khoo
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Old Testament History and Archaeology

The Biblical Archaeologist, 1987
Nonwritten, artifactual evidence is silent by nature and not particularly useful for dealing with specific historical facts.
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