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Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence, hints and assumptions for late pregnancy in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, Volume 112, Issue 7, Page 1371-1377, July 2023., 2023
Abstract Ancient women, who survived childhood mortality, received good and adequate nutrition, did not work hard and escaped death during childbirth could live fairly long lives. Girls started procreation after marriage, usually at 15 years, had on average seven children, childbearing lasted 14–21 or more years and could happen at the age of 35 or ...
Ariadne Malamitsi‐Puchner   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Rooting Religious Studies: The Metaphysical Proposal of René Guénon

open access: yesThe Philosophical Forum, Volume 54, Issue 1-2, Page 3-26, Summer 2023., 2023
Abstract The present article problematizes current dominating approaches to method and theory in the study of religion by pointing to their inapplicability to theorists working outside secular worldviews. The first section of this article introduces decolonialist narratives by touching on important topics which are subsumed within larger discussions ...
Noah H. Taj
wiley   +1 more source

A holy peace: Religious values, collective identity, and the future of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict

open access: yesPeace &Change, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 21-38, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This article envisions a new conceptual framework for collective identity among Palestinians and Israelis that can be modeled after congruent religious values. By identifying discreet values through the content analysis of religious scripture, this article argues that a new collective identity can be made, and a collective movement for peace ...
Michael J. Schumacher
wiley   +1 more source

The manufacture and origin of the Tutankhamen meteoritic iron dagger

open access: yesMeteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 747-758, April 2022., 2022
Abstract The Iron Age was the time when people acquired iron processing technology and is generally thought to have begun after 1200 B.C. Some prehistoric iron artifacts made of iron meteorites are dated from the Bronze Age. A nicely preserved meteoritic iron dagger was found in the tomb of King Tutankhamen (1361–1352 B.C.) of ancient Egypt.
Takafumi Matsui   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building technique of the Theater at ancient Messene

open access: yesJAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 515-532, July 2021., 2021
The present paper reports and examines the building techniques of the recently excavated Messene Theatre in Greece. In the Hellenistic period, both traditional building materials (poros and limestone) and methods (masonry, jointing and transportation) were employed in the Messene Theatre.
Ryuichi Yoshitake
wiley   +1 more source

Biocultural diversity of common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) across Eurasia

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 10, Issue 20, Page 11192-11216, October 2020., 2020
Little is known about how anthropogenic processes have affected the evolution of tree species with a long‐time‐scale history of human utilization such as common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.). In this study, we evaluated the impact of isolation by distance processes, landscape heterogeneity, and cultural boundaries
Paola Pollegioni   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

MIGRATION AND NARRATION: HOW EUROPEAN HISTORIANS IN THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES TOLD THE HISTORY OF HUMAN MASS MIGRATIONS OR VÖLKERWANDERUNGEN

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 42-60, March 2020., 2020
ABSTRACT Historians’ interest in the history of human migrations is not limited to recent years. Migrations had already figured as explanatory factors in connection with cultural and historical change in the work of classical and ancient studies scholars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the writings of these scholars, migrations
FELIX WIEDEMANN
wiley   +1 more source

Hittite Scribal Schools Outside of Hattusa? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The article investigates the meagre textual evidence for Hittite scribal schools outside of Hattusa against the background of new excavations and the questions they raise about the social context of Hittite cuneiform writing. The use of the term é.dub.ba(
Weeden, Mark
core   +1 more source

State Correspondence in the Hittite World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Chapter surveys the corpus of letters between officials and the royal family to throw light on mechanisms of communication and decision-making within the Late Bronze Age Hittite ...
Weeden, Mark
core   +1 more source

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