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Phoenician Seamen and Colonists codifying the African Atlantic Coast

open access: yesGerión, 2015
Phoenician Seamen and Colonists codifying the AfricanAtlantic ...
Fernando López Pardo
doaj   +1 more source

Two Mycenaean Stirrup-jars from the Levant [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A cache of artifacts, recovered in 2014 by the cultural heritage squadron of the Guardia di Finanza (Gruppo Tutela Patrimonio Archeologico of the Nucleo Polizia Tributaria di Roma), included two Mycenaean stirrup jars among the pottery illegally brought ...
SPAGNOLI, FEDERICA
core   +1 more source

Variability of jaw muscles in Tunisian street dogs and adaptation to skull shape

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, Volume 308, Issue 12, Page 3122-3141, December 2025.
Abstract The impact of artificial selection on the masticatory apparatus of dogs has been poorly studied, and comparative data with dogs subjected to more natural constraints are lacking. This study explores the jaw musculature of Tunisian street dogs, which are largely free from the influence of breed‐specific selection.
Colline Brassard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Levantine Hacksilber and the flow of silver in early Mediterranean commerce

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 6, Page 1547-1564, December 2025.
Abstract This study presents a comprehensive approach to provenancing ancient silver artefacts, introducing a novel algorithm to correct for mass‐dependent isotope fractionation. Applied to a Pb isotope database of 281 Hacksilber samples from southern Levantine hoards (1700–600 BCE) and compared with approximately 7000 galena ores from Spain to Iran ...
Francis Albarede   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Réflexions à propos de la paléographie pocockienne

open access: yesCahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes
This article examines the drawings of Phoenician inscriptions made by R. Pococke during his travels in Cyprus between 1737 and 1740. Although Phoenician was only deciphered in 1758 by the Abbot Barthélemy, R.
Stevens Bernardin
doaj   +1 more source

The Articulatory Basis of the Alphabet [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The origin of the alphabet has long been a subject for research, speculation and myths. How to explain its survival and effectiveness over thousands of years?
Allott, Robin
core  

TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
wiley   +1 more source

Pithouses or ritual dumps? On Late Bronze and Early Iron Age’s material context type in the South of the Iberian Peninsula. The dump of Cortijo Riquelme (Almería)

open access: yesZephyrus, 2017
Cortijo Riquelme is a Late Bronze and Early Iron Age’s archaeological dump in the South East of the Iberian Peninsula which belongs to the so called pithouses. This traditional interpretation has been rejected by recent critical studies.
José Luis LÓPEZ CASTRO   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phoenician-influenced metallurgy in central Portugal. Three socketed arrowheads with spur from Monte Figueiró (Ansião)

open access: yesZephyrus, 2020
This paper presents the results of a study carried out on three previously unpublished Iron Age socketed arrowheads with spur from Monte Figueiró –Central Portugal–, a site located between the Tagus and Mondego rivers.
Raquel VILAÇA   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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