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Biocultural diversity of common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) across Eurasia. [PDF]

open access: yesEcol Evol, 2020
Little is known about how anthropogenic processes have affected the evolution of tree species with a long‐time‐scale history of human utilization such as common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.). In this study, we evaluated the impact of isolation by distance processes, landscape heterogeneity, and cultural boundaries
Pollegioni P   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Ways of Being: Hittite Empire and Its Borderlands in Late Bronze Age Anatolia and Northern Syria

open access: yesStudia Orientalia Electronica, 2021
In this paper, I take identity as a characteristic of empire in its periphery, denoting the totality of: 1) the imperial strategies an empire pursues in different regions, 2) the index of empire in each region, and 3) local responses to imperialism.
Muge Durusu-Tanrıöver
doaj   +1 more source

Jumalad sõjas: jumalik toetus ja sõdade teoloogiline õigustamine muistses Anatoolias ja Põhja-Süürias [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2022
As we can see, divine support, divine intervention, and an ideology of (divine) warfare developed in the Hittite world throughout the whole of Hittite history and became better formulated and more complex with the passing of time, reaching their apex ...
Vladimir Sazonov, Joanna Töyräänvuori
doaj   +1 more source

Karkemish sur la frontière syro-turque un marqueur au service des ambitions territoriales de l’État turc

open access: yesFrontière·s, 2023
In 2011, 60% of the cross-border archaeological site of Jerablous for the Syrians and Karkemish for the Turks is on Turkish territory. Despite the Syrian conflict, a single archaeological mission continues to excavate until 2017, a few metres away from ...
Lorette Hehn
doaj   +1 more source

Trojan War and epic cycle: the historical and literary version where, how, when and why the Trojan War myth was invented

open access: yesProceedings (European Academy of Sciences and Arts), 2023
There are two aspects about the Trojan War, the historical and the literary. For 1200 BC, the Late Bronze Age there are two epigraphical testimonies, the Hettite inscriptions and the Linear B tablets.
Vasileios L. Konstantinopoulos
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence, hints and assumptions for late pregnancy in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, Volume 112, Issue 7, Page 1371-1377, July 2023., 2023
Abstract Ancient women, who survived childhood mortality, received good and adequate nutrition, did not work hard and escaped death during childbirth could live fairly long lives. Girls started procreation after marriage, usually at 15 years, had on average seven children, childbearing lasted 14–21 or more years and could happen at the age of 35 or ...
Ariadne Malamitsi‐Puchner   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Rooting Religious Studies: The Metaphysical Proposal of René Guénon

open access: yesThe Philosophical Forum, Volume 54, Issue 1-2, Page 3-26, Summer 2023., 2023
Abstract The present article problematizes current dominating approaches to method and theory in the study of religion by pointing to their inapplicability to theorists working outside secular worldviews. The first section of this article introduces decolonialist narratives by touching on important topics which are subsumed within larger discussions ...
Noah H. Taj
wiley   +1 more source

THE LION ORTHOSTATS FROM HAZOR: AN ADDENDUM TO THE PAPER OF SHLOMIT BECHAR

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 17-31, February 2023., 2023
Summary In a paper recently published in this journal, Shlomit Bechar (2021) analyzed the appearance and use of basalt orthostats in Canaanite and Israelite Hazor. The present paper is an addendum to Bechar's paper, elaborating the subject of the basalt lion orthostats found at Hazor.
David Ussishkin
wiley   +1 more source

A Hittite Seal Found in Ortaköy

open access: yesHöyük, 2023
As a result of the cooperation of Ortaköy/Şapinuva Head of Excavation, Çorum Museum Directorate Department, and Çorum Police Department, a hemispheroid Hittite seal made of bronze was introduced to the scientific world ...
Önder İpek   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building technique of the Theater at ancient Messene

open access: yesJAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 515-532, July 2021., 2021
The present paper reports and examines the building techniques of the recently excavated Messene Theatre in Greece. In the Hellenistic period, both traditional building materials (poros and limestone) and methods (masonry, jointing and transportation) were employed in the Messene Theatre.
Ryuichi Yoshitake
wiley   +1 more source

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