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THE IMPORTANCE OF SALT EXPLOITATION IN ROMAN DACIA. THE CASE OF OCNA MUREȘ (SALINAE)
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2018 The current paper presents a part of the epigraphic file of Ocna Mureș (the ancient Salinae), taking into account the brick stamps containing the name of the legio XIII Gemina and the names of magistri figlinae. Putting together the epigraphic evidences,
Lucrețiu Mihailesu-Bîrliba
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The Cinderella tree, <i>Quillaja saponaria</i> - A soap story. [PDF]
Plants People PlanetOur current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Osbourn A.
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's
Eun‐Young Park, Do‐Hyung Kim
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Types of Freedom and Submission in Tacitus' Agricola [PDF]
, 2016 Discusses conceptions of freedom displayed in Tacitus' Agricola. Tacitus seems to have had a clear-cut conceptual grid in which the German defectors, the Usipi, mirror the futile demonstrations of freedom by senators seeking a "ambitious death." The ...
Wildberger, Jula
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
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Soldiers of the Roman Empire. The Traditions of Military Service and the Martial Mentality [PDF]
, 2006 Книга посвящена исследованию социально-политических и военно-этических традиций римской императорской армии (I в. до н. э. — III в. н. э.). Эти традиции трактуются как противоречивое единство древних полисно-республиканских установлений и реалий ...
Makhlayuk, Alexandr Valentinovich +1 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Journal of Ancient History and ArchaeologyThis study introduces a new aspect in the discussions regarding military campaigns conducted over time in the western region of the Transylvania’s Iron Gates.
Ovidiu ȚENTEA +3 more
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