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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

Volunteer motivation in a CITiZAN community archaeology project at Sandwich Bay, Kent. [PDF]

J Community Archaeol Herit
Parsonage GC, Band L, Williams E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Exploring the Real Nature of Environmental Archaeology

, 2001
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann, Simon Fries, Bobomullo Bobomulloev, Muhsin Bobomulloev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling bast fiber production in Upper Paleolithic North China: Microfibers and usewear traces on stone tools from Shizitan. [PDF]

PLoS One
Liu L, He Y, Cohen D, Chen X, Shi J, Song Y.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

The impacts of European arrival on Australian dingoes. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Scarsbrook L, Cairns KM, Mitchell KJ, Bougiouri K, Evin A, Harris AC, Wood AE, Zhang Z, Lawson DJ, Alves JM, Ditchfield PW, Granja-Martins S, Styring AK, Tabbada K, Thalmann O, Crowther MS, Curry M, Feuerborn TR, Koungoulos LG, Letnic M, Reed EH, Sabin R, Parker HG, Ostrander EA, Frantz LAF, Larson G, Fillios MA.   +26 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
wiley   +1 more source

5. Lycia and Classical Archaeology: The Changing Nature of Archaeology in Turkey [PDF]

, 2015
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source