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From bridewealth to dowry? A Bayesian estimation of ancestral states of marriage transfers in Indo-European groups [PDF]
Significant amounts of wealth have been exchanged as part of marriage settlements throughout history. Although various models have been proposed for interpreting these practices, their development over time has not been investigated systematically.
Fortunato, L, Holden, C, Mace, R
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Adapting to New Contexts. Cuneiform in Anatolia [PDF]
This article focuses on cuneiform and scribal education in Anatolia. It attempts to trace some of the developments in the corpus of knowledge and training when it let the confines of its initial area of relevance and was received in Anatolia by the ...
Weeden, Mark
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Abstract This article explores the relations between organizational spatiality, gender and religion‐informed cultural practices. Theoretically grounded in Lefebvre’s spatial theory and informed by Islamic feminism, it examines the significance of Islamic spatial modesty in (re)constructing and sustaining gender (in)equalities in financial institutions ...
Shafaq Chaudhry, Vincenza Priola
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Hittite hi-verbs and the Indo-European perfect [PDF]
In an earlier study (1983) I argued that unlike aorists and athematic presents, Indo-European perfects and thematic presents originally had a dative subject, as in German mir träumt ‘me dreams’ for ich träume ‘I dream’, e.g.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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After the Hittites: The Kingdoms of Karkamish and Palistin in Northern Syria [PDF]
The disappearance and weakening of the Late Bronze Age territorial empires in the Eastern Mediterranean shortly after 1200 BC is traditionally held to be followed by a so-called Dark Age of around 300 years, characterized by a lack of written sources ...
Weeden, Mark
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Hittite Geographers: Geographical Perceptions and Practices in Hittite Anatolia [PDF]
AbstractHittite archives are remarkably rich in geographical data. A diverse array of documents has yielded, aside from thousands of geographical names (of towns, territories, mountains, and rivers), detailed descriptions of the Hittite state’s frontiers and depictions of landscape and topography.
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ABSTRACT This study investigates long‐term impacts of empires on local socio‐ecosystems in western Anatolia (modern western Türkiye) over the past four millennia. We focus on Buldan Yayla Lake, located in a small mountain basin north of the Büyük Menderes (Great Meander) River valley.
Sabina Fiołna +7 more
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Aram Kosyan’s "The Hittite Kingdom (Political History)" presents the military and political history of the Hittite Empire from the moment of its beginning (18th-17th centuries BC) until its disintegration in the late 13th century BC.
Hasmik Hmayakyan
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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS
ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
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The present article illustrates and summarizes some aspects of the formation of the Hittite Empire in the second millennium B.C. We shall delineate briefly the gradual progress of the Hittite Kingdom which —as a living organism— emerged (in the ...
Juan Manuel González Salazar
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