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Evidence, hints and assumptions for late pregnancy in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Acta 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
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On Rooting Religious Studies: The Metaphysical Proposal of René Guénon
The 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
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Peace &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
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The manufacture and origin of the Tutankhamen meteoritic iron dagger
Meteoritics &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
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Building technique of the Theater at ancient Messene
JAPAN 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
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An insight into Old Hittite metallurgy: alloying practices at Huseyindede (Corum, Turkey)
, 2021 This paper presents archaeological and analytical data on metal artefacts from Huseyindede (corum, Turkey), dated to the Old Hittite period (ca 16th century BC).
Yildirim, Tayfun +2 more
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"Word of the Old Woman": Studies in Female Ritual Practice in Hittite Anatolia [PDF]
, 2017 The Old Women are well-attested as religious functionaries in the Hittite texts. There is extensive evidence documenting their ritual and divinatory practice: they pacified deities, combated sorcery, cured illnesses, performed oracles, and protected the ...
Marcuson, Hannah Leigh
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Ecology 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
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History 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
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CULTURAL FUSION IN LATE BRONZE AGE GOLDWORK: DIADEMS AND MOUTH‐PIECES FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 151-179, May 2026.Summary This study investigates recently discovered gold diadems and mouth‐pieces from seven chamber tombs and one shaft tomb at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke, dating from the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC. The chamber tombs, all containing multi‐generational burials, yielded a variety of ornaments, which are analysed in ...
Peter M. Fischer
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