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Gorgon in the religion of Maeotes [PDF]
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2022 The immense popularity of the images of the Gorgon Medusa (mainly the gorgoneus) on various artifacts found in the mounds of Scythia and the Bosporus is usually explained by the apotropaic significance of her image, which was due to the influence of ...
Schaub, I.Yu.
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Working of Reindeer’s Antlers at the Neolithic – Bronze Age Settlement Mayak 2 (Murmansk region)
Поволжская археология, 2023 The article presents the preliminary results of the traceological analysis of the artefacts made of reindeer antler (Rangifer tarandus) found at the settlement Mayak 2 (Murmansk region). The site, excavated in 1979–1984 by N. N. Gurina, has been dated to
Malyutina Anna A. +2 more
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Поволжская археология, 2023 Ethnoarchaeological research, which gained great popularity in the second half of the 20th century, has become a new full-fledged source for a variety of socio-economic reconstructions in archaeology, including when characterizing the features of ...
Skakun Natalia N. +5 more
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Peggy Guggenheim and the Pacific
Lagoonscapes, 2023 This paper examines the small Pacific collection of Peggy Guggenheim, looking at how it became part of a non-Western art collection that exists in addition to her important modernist assembled works.
Veys, Fanny Wonu
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Cultural Objects, Material Culture, and Materiality
Annual Review of Sociology, 2023 The study of cultural objects and their materiality has moved to the center of cultural sociology. This review synthesizes the work of this third wave of cultural sociology, demonstrating how insights from the study of cultural objects and their mechanisms of meaning-making deepen our theories of culture in action, culture and cognition, and the ...
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Archaeology, mainly Polish, in the current discussion on the ethnogenesis of the Slavs
Slavia Antiqua, 2022 This paper is an attempt at outlining the current state of discussion about the ethnogenesis of the Slavs, mainly within the framework of Polish scientific research, with particular consideration of archaeological theories, both in terms of their ...
Michał Kara
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Spirit, mind and body: the archaeology of monastic healing [PDF]
, 2019 Archaeology and material culture are used in this chapter to consider how monastic experience responded to illness, ageing and disability. The approach taken is influenced by the material study of religion, which interrogates how bodies and things engage
Gilchrist, Roberta
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Religions, 2023 A powerful bead network that wove together a transcontinental tapestry of cultures predated the Spanish invasion of the Americas. Beads created in the northeastern Atlantic world found themselves in Aztec and Incan territories, as did beads made from ...
Lauren Beck
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Academy for the History of Material Culture and Publication of Noin-Ula Collection. 1920s
Археология евразийских степей, 2021 In the second half of the 1920s, the Academy for the History of Material Culture prepared a great edition of the Noin-Ula collection from the excavations of the Mongol-Tibetan expedition of Pyotr Kozlov, which was never published.
Maria V. Medvedeva
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The Materials to the Porthmion Chronology
Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2019 The Bosporus expedition of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences conducted a small archaeological research in the northwestern sector of Porthmion in 2002–2003.
Roman V. Stoyanov
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