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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. , Murashkin Anton I. , Taktasheva Snezhana D.   +2 more
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Man’s slate polished knives in the Old Bering Sea culture and their manufacturing technology (based on the materials of the Ekven burial ground and ethnographic data)

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. , Terekhina Vera V. , Heredia Jose. , Dneprovsky Kirill A. , Sukhorukova Elena S. , Agakhanova Vitaliya A.   +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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Consumption caught in the cash nexus. [PDF]

, 2007
During the last thirty years, ‘consumption’ has become a major topic in the study of contemporary culture within anthropology, psychology and sociology. For many authors it has become central to understanding the nature of material culture in the modern ...
Appadurai, A., Barthes, R., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Bocock, R., Boorstein, D., Campbell, C., Carlyle, T., Corrigan, P., Corrigan, P., Csikszentmihalyi, M., Dant, T., de Certeau, M., Dittmar, H., Douglas, M., du Gay, P., Engels, F., Ewen, S., Falk, P., Featherstone, M., Gabriel, Y., Galbraith, J. K., Galbraith, J. K., Goldthorpe, J. H., Goldthorpe, J. H., Haug, W.F., Heath, C.C., Jhally, S., Kopytoff, I., Leiss, W., Lunt, P., Lury, C., Marcuse, H., Marx, K., McCarthy, E.D., McCracken, G., McKenzie, R., Mead, G.H., Miles, S., Miller, D., Miller, D., Miller, D., Miller, D., Miller, D., Packard, V., Riesman, D., Riggins, S.H., Riggins, S.H., Runciman, W.G., Sahlins, M., Saunders, P., Shields, R., Simmel, G., Slater, D., Tim Dant, Westergaard, J.H., Westergaard, J.H.   +60 more
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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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Beads and Ceremony: The Collision of Pan-American, European, African, and Asian Bead Networks in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Empire

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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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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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 Sacred Engagement: Outline of a hypothesis about the origin of human ‘religious intelligence’. [PDF]

, 2007
The question that motivates the central hypothesis advanced in this paper regarding the emergence of early religious thinking is the following: ‘why does religion need material\ud culture?’ What basic functional or symbolic need renders material culture ...
Malafouris, Dr Lambros
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