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Network Perspectives in the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean
This editorial introduces the Special Issue on Network Perspectives in the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, originating from a 2021 workshop in Helsinki. It examines how network analysis serves as both a methodological tool
Lahelma Antti +2 more
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WHAT ONCE WAS SHALL BE AGAIN: PALAEOLITHIC BIFACES AT THE NEOLITHIC SITE OF GIV'AT RABI EAST
Summary Giv'at Rabi East is a Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B site located in northern Israel, interpreted as a flint workshop. One area has been spatially identified as a ‘biface locality’; it is characterized by the presence of finished axes and preforms alongside débitage. Interestingly, Acheulean bifaces have also been recovered from this area.
Ella Assaf
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Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy
ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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“We Can No Longer Live by the Domostroi”: The Riddles of Anna Nikanorovna Paskhalova‐Mordovtseva
Abstract This article analyzes the rebuses (picture riddles) of Anna Nikanorovna Paskhalova‐Mordovtseva. It argues that despite their seemingly modest nature as artefacts of everyday leisure, Mordovtseva used these puzzles to make radical claims and assert herself as a public intellectual.
Ksenia Butuzova, Julia Mannherz
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The Archaeology and History of Medieval Trim, County Meath
Between 1835 and 1861, Richard Butler wrote four editions of his history of Trim.2 In the 140 years since that time, the publication of a large corpus of primary documents relating to medieval Irish towns has been accompanied by a revolution in approaches to source material and research methodology. More recently, archaeology has come to play a central
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ABSTRACT DNA library construction methods can affect the recovery of ancient DNA, thus influencing downstream analyses. While single‐stranded library preparation (ssLib) has been shown to outperform double‐stranded (dsLib) for highly degraded vertebrate host DNA, especially for samples older than 40,000 years, few studies have examined how library ...
Keri Burge +5 more
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Anachronique, utopique, achronique
Considering medieval artworks in the context of contemporary creation has become a leitmotif in studies on the visual thinking of the Middle Ages, whether through the search for origins, the updating of precursors, the archaeology of influences or the ...
Vincent Debiais
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We report that femoral cortical thickness was strongly and negatively associated with secondary osteon porosity in an Australian autopsy sample, indicating that thicker cortices contained less porous secondary osteons. This allometric relationship held for the whole sample, males and sedentary well‐nourished individuals, but not for females or other ...
Justyna J. Miszkiewicz +3 more
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Scientific studies conducted by the team of the Institute of Archaeology named after A.Kh. Khalikov in 2015 aimed to further elaborate on the issues of the Volga-Kama early and medieval history within the context of the Eurasian civilization.
Sitdikov Ayrat G., Karimov Ildar R.
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