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Adapting to New Contexts. Cuneiform in Anatolia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article focuses on cuneiform and scribal education in Anatolia. It attempts to trace some of the developments in the corpus of knowledge and training when it let the confines of its initial area of relevance and was received in Anatolia by the ...
Weeden, Mark
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Historical and Ethnographical Publications in the Vernaculars of Colonial Zambia: Missionary Contribution to the 'Creation of Tribalism' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This essay examines the chronology and attributes of literate ethno-history in Northern Rhodesia. While the earliest published authors were invariably members of missionary societies whose evangelical policies were predisposed towards the ...
Macola, Giacomo
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A wider Europe? The view from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
On the evidence of national surveys conducted between 2000 and 2006, there is a declining sense of European self-identity in the three Slavic post-Soviet republics of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
Allison R.   +31 more
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The global regime of language recognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
There is no universally accepted working linguistic definition of a language; the distinction between a dialect and a language is a political question.
Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik
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The Neolithic transition in Europe: archaeological models and genetic evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The major pattern in the European gene pool is a southeast-northwest frequency gradient of classic genetic markers such as blood groups, which population geneticists initially attributed to the demographic impact of Neolithic farmers dispersing from the ...
Richards, Martin B.
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Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Sumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to ...
Jay Crisostomo
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Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

open access: yes, 2015
We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000-3,000 years ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost four hundred thousand polymorphisms. Enrichment of these positions decreases the sequencing required for
A Keller   +81 more
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The Beckoning Silence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Mark Turin has agreed with the copyright holder the right to host a copy of this piece (whether audio, text or video) on University of Cambridge archives and servers.An article in the Independent on Sunday on the World Oral Literature ...
Paul, Bignell
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The material origin of numbers: Insights from the archaeology of the Ancient Near East [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
What are numbers, and where do they come from? A novel answer to these timeless questions is proposed by cognitive archaeologist Karenleigh A. Overmann, based on her groundbreaking study of material devices used for counting in the Ancient Near East ...
Overmann, Karenleigh Anne
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Writing in Britain and Ireland, c. 400 to c. 800 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
No abstract ...
Abrams   +1241 more
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