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Open Archaeology, 2023 In recent years, studies on reuse practices in premodern societies have multiplied. Nonetheless, a linear model (production – usage – discard) is still widely employed for describing past economic systems. Integrating it with a circular model, instead of
Bavuso Irene +3 more
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Many Hands Without Design:The Evolution of a Medieval Prophetic Text [PDF]
, 2014 This article reconstructs the pre-manuscript history of the Sibylla Tiburtina, a late antique prophetic text, very widespread after c.1000. It argues against the prevailing belief that a single intelligence structured the Latin text to a single meaning ...
Holdenried, Anke
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Medieval Shiloh—Continuity and Renewal
Religions, 2020 The present paper deals with the development of cult in Shiloh during the Middle Ages. After the Byzantine period, when Shiloh was an important Christian cult place, it disappeared from the written sources and started to be identified with Nebi Samwil ...
Amichay Shcwartz, Abraham Ofir Shemesh
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Greenland ice core “signal” characteristics: An expanded view of climate change [PDF]
, 1993 The last millenium of Earth history is of particular interest because it documents the environmental complexities of both natural variability and anthropogenic activity. We have analyzed the major ions contained in the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP
Ferland, Kevin K. +8 more
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Role of tropical Pacific SSTs in global medieval hydroclimate: A modeling study [PDF]
, 2010 The role of tropical Pacific SSTs in driving global medieval hydroclimate is assessed. Using fossil coral records from Palmyra Atoll, tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) boundary conditions are derived for the period 1320-1462 A.D.
Burgman, Robert +3 more
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‘The Military Mirror of Kai’: Swordsmanship and a Medieval Text in Early Modern Japan [PDF]
, 2014 Swordsmanship emerged as a new field of knowledge in early modern Japan (1600–1868), a time of relative peace. During the most violent periods of Japanese history, the latter half of the medieval period (1185–1600), samurai conducted warfare mostly on ...
Wert, Michael
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Tarsal metric trends over the Medieval-Post-Medieval transition in London
Homo, 2022 The Medieval-Post-Medieval transition in England was an important shift in the human biocultural environment. With urbanization and industrialization came resultant changes in living and working conditions and subsequent effects on the skeleton.
Malorie E. Albee
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Gold mining in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, from New Kingom to medieval times. New insight from the Samut district [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2020 Gold was plentiful in Egypt and had been used by the Pharaohs from the earliest times as a means of asserting their power. But the history and archaeology of the mining and production of Egyptian gold is a lot less known than the splendour of the country’
Bérangère Redon +2 more
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When was medieval philosophy? [PDF]
, 2011 Typescript of an Inaugural Lecture by John Marenbon, as Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, delivered November 30, 2011.John Marenbon argues against the usual chronological division, according to which there was a ...
Marenbon, John
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