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Anatolian Empires: Local Experiences from Hittites to Phrygians at Çadır Höyük [PDF]
Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, 2019 Abstract Çadır Höyük provides rich evidence for the endurance and transformation of specific cultural features and phenomena at a rural center on the Anatolian plateau as it experienced the waxing and waning of control by imperial political powers of the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Ross, JC +7 more
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Levantine Hacksilber and the flow of silver in early Mediterranean commerce
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 6, Page 1547-1564, December 2025.Abstract This study presents a comprehensive approach to provenancing ancient silver artefacts, introducing a novel algorithm to correct for mass‐dependent isotope fractionation. Applied to a Pb isotope database of 281 Hacksilber samples from southern Levantine hoards (1700–600 BCE) and compared with approximately 7000 galena ores from Spain to Iran ...
Francis Albarede +4 more
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 597-611, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Birds have played both subsistence and symbolic roles in past human societies, with their significance evolving alongside sedentary lifestyles and agriculture. Although Neolithic settlements in Western Asia primarily relied on domesticated mammals, birds remained a marginal resource, their importance varying by region.
Marcel van Tuinen +6 more
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Potential anomaly separation and archeological site localization using genetically trained multi-level cellular neural networks [PDF]
, 2005 In this paper, a supervised algorithm for the evaluation of geophysical sites using a multi-level cellular neural network (ML-CNN) is introduced, developed, and applied to real data.
Albora, Ali Muhittin +3 more
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1285-1304, October 2025.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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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 338-358, September 2025.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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Sculpture, Monuments and Open Space, Volume 74, Issue 1-4, Page 56-71, January-December 2025.Abstract In the 19th and 20th centuries, countries such as Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union, which wanted to create strong nations and restore the health of their people affected by wars, epidemics, and poverty, believed they could prove their power in the international arena.
Begüm Sönmez +1 more
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Plenary Agenda Report for Research Group B-II-1 [PDF]
, 2011 Political authority over extensive territories is a well-known phenomenon of the ancient world, and one conceptualized already in antiquity through the image of the succession of empires.
Baltrusch, Ernst +3 more
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