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This book contains the proceedings of the 61e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, which was held in Geneva and Bern in Switzerland from 22nd until 26th June 2015.
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Synonyms? Complementary words that comply with the same concept? Too often ideology and propaganda have been interchangeably used. Propaganda is the practical instrument to express, foster, and propagate an ideology, either political or religious ...
Nadali Davide
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The language of Hunter-Gatherers
Hunter-gatherers are often portrayed as 'others' standing outside the main trajectory of human social evolution. But even after eleven millennia of agriculture and two centuries of widespread industrialization, hunter-gatherer societies continue to exist.
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Meaning and Society in the Near East: Examples from the Black Sea Turks and the Levantine Arabs (I)
At the turn of the century the societies of the Near East provided materials for some of the most pressing anthropological and sociological issues of the day. W.
Micheal E. Meeker
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Quantifying the legacy of the Chinese Neolithic on the maternal genetic heritage of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia [PDF]
There has been a long-standing debate concerning the extent to which the spread of Neolithic ceramics and Malay-Polynesian languages in Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) were coupled to an agriculturally driven demic dispersal out of Taiwan 4000 years ago (4 ...
Zafarina, Zainuddin +54 more
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The research team of the ERC funded research project Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah (APCG), at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, is ...
Chargé de diffusion scientifique
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The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity
International audienceCoptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but
Fournet, Jean-Luc
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Journeys into Seeing: Amateur Film-making and Tourist Encounters in Soviet Russia, c. 1932 [PDF]
This article examines in detail amateur film imagery of Soviet-era Russia held in the North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University. It discusses footage made and shown during the early 1930s by an early regional cine enthusiast, and ...
Nicholson, Heather Norris +1 more
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Missing Links: Demic Diffusion and the Development of Agriculture on the Central Iranian Plateau [PDF]
This thesis studies the development of agricultural settlements on the Central Iranian Plateau during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods. To date, no Early Neolithic sites (ca. 8000-6500 BC) are known on the Central Plateau.
MARSHALL, JENNY,LEE
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Law as Adjunct to Custom? Abkhaz custom and law in today's state-building and 'modernisation' - (Studied through dispute resolution) [PDF]
The setting for research is Abkhazia a small country south of the Caucasus Mountains and bordering Europe and the Near East. The Abkhaz hold onto custom – apswara – to make of state law an adjunct to custom as the state strives to strengthen its powers ...
Costello, Michael
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