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Medieval Weights with Pseudo-Arabic Inscriptions
Поволжская археология, 2018 Heavy medieval spherical weights dating from the end of IX till beginning of 11 c. bear pseudo-arabic inscriptions. About 35 known finds originate from a vast territory from Western Norway to lower Kama basin.
Zhukovsky Mikhail O.
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A survey of the material and intellectual consequences of trading in undocumented ancient coins : a case study on the North American trade [PDF]
, 2008 Ancient coins are among the most widely collected and demanded objects among American collectors of antiquities. A vocal lobby of ancient coin dealers/collectors has arisen to protect the importation of undocumented material into the United States and ...
Elkins, Nathan T.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 150-166, March 2026.This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
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On the Activities of the Third Bolgar International Archaeological School
Поволжская археология, 2016 The third Bolgar International Archaeological Field School was held from August, 14 to August, 28, 2016. This year, young archaeologists from seven countries became the participants of the school.
Aituganova Nargiz L. +3 more
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Fortified settlement Veletin [PDF]
Starinar, 2003 Remnants of the fortified settlement Veletin are located on a hill of the same name (map marking 969) near the small town Janjevo, in the vicinity of the Monastery Gračanica in Kosovo, in a region rich in metal ore (pic. 1-3).
Jovanović Vojislav S.
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Infancy and education in the writings of Gertrud the Great of Helfta [PDF]
, 2000 The German Benedictine nun Gertrud the Great of Heifta c.1256-1302 was one of the most highly educated of medieval women mystics. Unlike most religious women of the Middle Ages, she not only read Latin but also wrote it fluently and prolifically.
Barratt, Alexandra
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The Fettered and the Flea: A New Poem by Edmund Waller☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 41-54, February 2026.Abstract This contribution explores for the first time a 22‐line poem in a British Library manuscript, ‘To a young lady that kept a flea chay’nd in a box’, which can be convincingly ascribed to Edmund Waller. Its most famous relative is Donne’s ‘The Flea’, but its ancestry differs.
Stuart Gillespie
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DECEPTIVE SANCTITY: The Geopolitics of Shrines and Concealed Antiquities in Afghanistan
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 82-106, February 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores a widely circulated legend in Afghanistan in which foreigners are believed to create shrines to conceal buried antiquities. It represents one of several narratives in which locals express mistrust of foreign motivations and geopolitical deception.
SHAMIM HOMAYUN
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Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
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A model of commodity money with minting and melting [PDF]
We construct a random matching model of a monetary economy with commodity money in the form of potentially different types of silver coins that are distinguishable by the quantity of metal they contain. The quantity of silver in the economy is assumed to
Angela Redish, Warren E. Weber
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