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Cosmovision as Cognitive Technology: The Case of Mesoamerican Medicinal Knowledge. [PDF]
Top Cogn SciAbstract We examine the use of cognitive technologies in the acquisition and retention of botanical and medicinal knowledge. We focus on the Cruz‐Badianus codex, a 16th‐century Nahua (Aztec) herbarium which discusses the use of plants for a range of illnesses.
De Smedt J, De Cruz H.
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 This article offers a reading of the parable of the Dishonest Steward from the perspective of Greco-Roman status concern. It observes that the parable has a long and complicated history of interpretation.
Louis Ndekha
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Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021 The popular articles written by A.V. Mishulin (1901–1948), a Soviet historian of antiquity, were analyzed. These articles are focused on the history and culture of the Ancient East states (Egypt, India, and China) with account of their impact on the ...
S.B. Krikh
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Exploring the Acoustics of Ancient Open-Air Theatres
Archives of Acoustics, 2020 The theatres of Antiquity, Greek and Roman, constitute public buildings of the utmost importance in the history of Western culture and in universal cultural heritage.
Sara GIRÓN +2 more
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Extinciones históricas: el caso de la enigmática planta del Silfio [PDF]
, 2016 This review refers to the Silphium (Apiaceae), one of the most enigmatic plants in the history of the Mediterranean. In Greco-Roman world, it was a panacea and especially, a powerful aphrodisiac which left many written historical references, in addition ...
Ríos, Segundo
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HERODIAN JUDEA: GAMES, POLITICS, KINGSHIP
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2015 This article will detail the kingship of Herod the Great in Judea and his enrollment of Greco-Roman architecture and culture during his reign in the first century BCE. Herod, it seems, made a deliberate break from his Jewish kingdom for the electrifying
Cody Scott Ames
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The Pythagoreans in the light and shadows of recent research
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1970 It has been said' that "Pythagoras casts a long shadow in the history of Greek thought". Indeed, the shadow both widens and deepens spectacularly in course of time.
Holger Thesleff
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The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses [PDF]
, 2012 The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The "Rhineland Hypothesis" proposes that Eastern European Jews emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and ...
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The idea of becoming an individual in the context of early Christianity
Українське Pелігієзнавство, 1997 The last centuries before the beginning of the Christian era, the first centuries after that, were enveloped in the history of mankind as a period of the total crisis and the decline of the Greco-Roman civilization, a crisis that covered virtually all ...
Pavlo Pavlenko
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Gephyra, 2021 The latest corpus of the inscriptions from Smyrna was published by Georg Petzl in Die Inschriften von Smyrna, Teil II,2: Addenda, Corrigenda und Indices, in series of Inschriften griechische Städte aus Kleinasien, volume 24,2, Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt, in
Akın ERSOY, Ş. Recai TEKOĞLU
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