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Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski +2 more
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Codes as Constitution: The Development of the Biblical Law-Codes from Monarchy to Theocracy [PDF]
, 2009 As a result of influence from assyriology and the sociology of law, the Hebrew legal texts have commonly been categorised in recent study as ancient law-codes analogous to the cuneiform codes recovered from the ancient Near East.
HU, HUIPING
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How pharaohs became media stars: Ancient Egypt and popular culture
, 2023 The appearance of new media and its enormous diffusion in the last decades of the 20th century and up to the present has greatly increased and diversified the reception of Egyptian themes and motifs and Egyptian influence in various cultural spheres.
Pichel, Abraham I. Fernández
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The Material Basis of 18th‐Century Meissen Porcelain
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the summer of 1708, the quest for making hard‐paste porcelain from Saxonian clay and other mineral resources succeeded. This was achieved by applying as its essential ingredient newly discovered pure kaolin from Heidelsberg near Aue, western Saxon Ore Mountains.
Robert B. Heimann
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The discovery of archaeological sites traditionally entails the utilisation of physically demanding exploration methodologies, including terrain surveying and the analysis of historical records. Recent technological developments have led to an increased use of non‐invasive remote sensing techniques, including Google Earth, LiDAR and aerial ...
Mncedisi J. Siteleki
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 10
, 2008 Editorial The three papers in this issue epitomise the range of subjects covered by BMSAES: a report on new fieldwork, the publication of an object in a museum collection, and a study of the modern reception and presentation of ancient artefacts.
British Museum
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Representation of Ancient Egypt in the Work of Julius Zeyer and Georg Ebers
, 2023 The subject of this bachelor thesis is a comparison of the image of ancient Egypt in the works of Georg Ebers and Julius Zeyer. Specifically, Ebers's historical novels Dcera královská (1864) and Uarda (1877), in a contemporary translation by Bedřich ...
HNILIČKOVÁ, Jitka
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The ancient Egypt through the eyes of Julião Quintinha (1885-1968), a Portuguese writer and journalist [PDF]
, 2019 UID/HIS/04666/2019Through the O deslumbramento do Egipto, the last chapter of the book Terras de Sol e de Febre by Julião Quintinha, a Portuguese journalist and writer, we will capture the representation, memory, and reception of the identity of the ...
Mota, Susana +1 more
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Israel's destruction and ‘humanitarianisation’ of Palestinian health systems, arguing that this should be understood as an instance of ‘necropolitics,’ as conceived by Achille Mbembe. We review the extensive, long‐term destruction of health systems in Palestine before 7 October 2023 and the catastrophic acceleration of that
Mohammad Salaymeh +2 more
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The Gospel on the Margins: The Ideological Function of the Patristic Tradition on the Evangelist Mark [PDF]
, 2013 In spite of the virtually unanimous patristic opinion that the evangelist Mark was the interpreter of Peter, one of the most prestigious apostolic founding figures in Christian memory, the Gospel of Mark was mostly neglected in the patristic period.
Kok, Michael J
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