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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya. [PDF]

PLoS One
Goldstein ST, Mueller NG, Finestone E, Sawchuk EA, Juengst S, Otwani AO, Miller JM, Langley MC, Fernandes R, Steinhof A, Iminjili V, Chepkorir C, Janzen A, Ogola C, Ndiema E, Petraglia M, Boivin N.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
wiley   +1 more source

Tel Shiqmona during the Iron Age: A first glimpse into an ancient Mediterranean purple dye 'factory'. [PDF]

PLoS One
Shalvi G, Sukenik N, Waiman-Barak P, Dunseth ZC, Bar S, Pinsky S, Iluz D, Amar Z, Gilboa A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On Being Receptive: Listening and Compliance on a University Campus

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should you listen when you hear about harms in interpersonal life, such as sexual harassment or anti‐Black racism? Across a range of sites on a university campus, from bystander intervention workshops to reporting systems for sex‐ and gender‐based misconduct, we spotlight the way “listening” is mobilized to address harms of various kinds ...
Michael Lempert, Benjamin Davis, Alex Forrest   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early human collective practices and symbolism in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Southwest Asia. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Barzilai O, Marder O, Tejero JM, Ayalon A, Bar-Matthews M, Abulafia T, Lavi R, Goder-Goldberger M, Shemer M, Edeltin L, Wiegmann A, Frumkin A, Karasik A, Yasur G, Yeshurun R, Zohar I, Berna F, Hans M, Goldberg JS, McDermott Y, Spurlock L, Pokhojaev A, Habashi W, May H, Sarig R, Hershkovitz I.   +25 more
europepmc   +1 more source

When Is a Wrong Answer Right?: Mediating Indigenous Language Revitalization at Taiwan Indigenous Television

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article follows producers of Kai Language Heroes, the first Indigenous language game show in the world, as they adapted the genre for language revitalization. Kai Language Heroes is one of many original programs at Taiwan Indigenous Television (TITV), a public broadcaster that serves Taiwan's diverse Austronesian‐speaking peoples. I argue
Eliana Ritts
wiley   +1 more source

Behind the wall: Macrolithic artifacts as testing tools for activities and social structure on a Middle Chalcolithic site in Central Anatolia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Řídký J, Doležalová K, Pilař D, Çaylı P, Demirtaş I, Gülçur S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Early Neolithic in the Arabian Gulf: A newly discovered 8,400-year-old stone-built architecture on Ghagha Island, United Arab Emirates. [PDF]

PLoS One
Lidour K, Al Hameli N, Crassard R, D'Silva F, Al Haj A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source