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How can white marble provenance studies change our perception of the stone trade in the Roman Empire: analysing inland Thrace, a <i>terra incognita</i>. [PDF]

Humanit Soc Sci Commun
Anevlavi V.
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To be(long) or not to be(long): Literature and community

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Over several decades, the modern world's intensified mobility has prompted a broad interest in community studies in the social sciences, which address in new ways the topics of place, belonging, and identity formation. Such topics being salient to literature and literary studies as well, the overall aim of the article is to extract a selection
Svend Erik Larsen
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High-resolution isotopic data link settlement complexification to infant diets within the Roman Empire. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Cocozza C, Harris AJT, Formichella G, Pedrucci G, Rossi PF, D'Alessio A, Amoretti V, Zuchtriegel G, O'Reilly M, Mantile N, Panella S, Tafuri MA, Altieri S, di Cicco MR, Fernandes R, Lubritto C.   +15 more
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Urbanism and the division of labour in the Roman Empire. [PDF]

J R Soc Interface, 2017
Hanson JW, Ortman SG, Lobo J.
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The will of the middleperson: Triangular communication and its asymmetries in the figures of the Hebrew prophet and the Jewish Shtadlan

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Ancient rhetoric instructs the advocate to evoke in themselves the emotions they wish to elicit in the judge in order to successfully act as the Fürsprecher (advocates) of their clients. Taken to its extreme, this formula of “affection through auto‐affection” renders the figure of the Fürsprecher a double‐sided representative who compensates ...
Shira Miron
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: Vice-versa: The iron trade in the western Roman Empire between Gaul and the Mediterranean. [PDF]

PLoS One
Pagès G, Dillmann P, Vega E, Berranger M, Bauvais S, Long L, Fluzin P.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Spatial constraints on the diffusion of religious innovations: The case of early Christianity in the Roman Empire. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2018
Fousek J, Kaše V, Mertel A, Výtvarová E, Chalupa A.   +4 more
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Track Record Arguments in Normative Ethics

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Track record arguments (TRAs) contend that it speaks in favor of an ethical theory (such as utilitarianism) if many of its past proponents had moral views that were controversial at their time but which we now consider to be clearly true (e.g., women's equal rights in 18th century Europe). This paper explores how to construct potentially sound
Leonard Dung
wiley   +1 more source

The role of emerging elites in the formation and development of communities after the fall of the Roman Empire. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Tian Y, Koncz I, Defant S, Giostra C, Vyas DN, Sołtysiak A, Pejrani Baricco L, Fetner R, Posth C, Brandt G, Bedini E, Modi A, Lari M, Vai S, Francalacci P, Fernandes R, Steinhof A, Pohl W, Caramelli D, Krause J, Izdebski A, Geary PJ, Veeramah KR.   +22 more
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source