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The drop that makes a vase overflow: Understanding Maya society through daily water management
WIREs Water, Volume 5, Issue 3, May/June 2018., 2018 Modeling Maya water flows in detail Water is an important key to understand Maya society, especially water availability within a context of climatic changes. Increasing drought would have pushed the Maya water systems into collapse. This paper studies the Maya water systems from an action‐oriented perspective, in order to understand what challenges the
Maurits W. Ertsen, Kyra Wouters
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AMANDA PODANY. THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION.
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2016 Amanda Podany. The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, xix + 148 p., ISBN 978-0-19-537799-6.
Matthew Gray Marsh
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A Northwest Semitic Curse Formula: The Sefire Treaty and Deuteronomy 28
, 2016 While a great deal of scholarly investigation has focused on parallels between biblical curses and imprecations found in Neo-Assyrian Treaties, the curses in the Aramaic treaty of Sefire have garnered relatively less attention.¹ In recent years there has
Ramos, Melissa
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International Journal of Geophysics, Volume 2011, Issue 1, 2011., 2011 The paper is concerned with the contribution that a rich documentation of multitemporal optical satellite images with high resolution provides for the knowledge of the five great Assyrian capital cities (Ashur, Kar‐Tukulti‐Ninurta, Kalhu, Dur‐Sharrukin, and Nineveh, in northern Iraq).
Giuseppe Scardozzi, Nicola Masini
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Debunking the Latest Scenario on the Rise of the Pork Taboo
Études et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2018 A number of studies from Tel Aviv date the rise of the pork taboo in Israel as early as the Iron Age I in order to salvage the notion that the taboo was a reaction to the pork-consuming habits of the hated Philistines.
Philippe Guillaume
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The delegation of power: Neo-Assyrian bureau seals [PDF]
, 2008 Bureau seals are an innovation of the Assyrian administration to cope with the delegation of power that running a world empire demanded. By placing some bureau seals in their historical context we find indications that these seal types were introduced ...
Radner, K
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines transport amphorae of Greek/Aegean types from the 7th–4th c. BCE imported to the Phoenician coastal settlement of Tell el‐Burak, Lebanon. We present a selection of 58 pieces analyzed by typological, chemical (NAA), and petrographic approaches.
Maximilian Rönnberg +3 more
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La poliorcética en el Imperio Neoasirio
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2011 Los Asirios contaron con las armas más avanzadas de su tiempo. Evolucionaron la guerra de sitio con la presencia de torres móviles, arietes y vehículos empujados a mano dotados de protecciones.Estos avanzados recursos permitieron la extensión de sus ...
Rubén Sáez Abad
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Az asszír birodalmi expanzió = Assyrian Imperial Expansion [PDF]
, 2011 A hároméves (2008–2011) (72927 jelzetű) OTKA Asszír birodalmi expanzió című kutatómunka eredményeként számos közlemény és konferencia előadás mellett két monografikus feldolgozás született.
Dezső, Tamás, Niederreiter, Zoltán
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Collapse or transformation? Regeneration and innovation at the turn of the first millennium BC at Arslantepe, Turkey [PDF]
, 2018 Ongoing excavations at Arslantepe in south-eastern Turkey are revealing settlement continuity spanning two crucial phases at the transition from the second to the first millennium BC: the post-Hittite period and the development of Syro-Anatolian ...
DI FILIPPO, Francesco +3 more
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