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Nonmarine Ostracoda as proxies in (geo‐)archaeology — A review
Geoarchaeology, Volume 37, Issue 5, Page 711-732, September/October 2022., 2022 Abstract Ostracods as bioindicators are extremely useful for reconstructing palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate and can also indicate the provenance of sediments and materials, for example, in studies on ancient commercial networks. Ostracods are small crustaceans that live in almost all aquatic habitats, both natural and man‐made.
Ella Quante, Anna Pint, Peter Frenzel
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A Comparative Study of the narrations of Last Sasanian Kings in Jiu Tangshu and Xin Tangshu [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2022 Introduction One of the most detailed narrations about the Sasanians in Chinese texts is the reports of Jiu Tangshu and Xin Tangshua on the Last Sasanian Kings.
Hamidreza Pashazanous
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Patricia Crone and the “secular tradition” of early Islamic historiography: An exegesis
History Compass, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Patricia Crone famously identified three distinct sub‐traditions within early Islamic historiography: a “religious tradition”, a “tribal tradition”, and a “secular tradition”. Whereas the first is extremely unreliable and the second is partially unreliable regarding early Islamic history in general (c.
Joshua J. Little
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Sacred Beads of Pearl Necklaces of Sasanian Kings Based on their Coins [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2023 The Avesta and Zoroastrian manuscripts, in Pahlavi language, have been studied, interpreted and translated numerous times over the past century. The study of sacred numbers, only based on the above-mentioned texts, has also been a part of printed ...
Daryoosh Akbarzadeh
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Iran at War: From Cyrus to Soleimani
Middle East Policy, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 79-93, Autumn (Fall) 2022., 2022 Abstract Iran’s armed forces have made tremendous strides since the decade‐long war with Iraq in the 1980s. Tehran’s cultivation of ideologically sympathetic forces, along with the provision of material help, has allowed Iran to project power and influence throughout the Middle East. Some policy analysts who study Iran’s military development are biased
Ahmed S. Hashim
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Worlding on the Hudson: Frederic Church and Global Histories of Art
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 518-544, June 2022., 2022 The ‘Persian’ interior of the American landscape painter Frederic Church is a place crowded with paintings, objects and architectural ornament orchestrated as an installation that the artist both accrued and designed over a thirty‐year period. This regional orientalism, with its cosmopolitan claims and internationally networked cultural politics, is ...
Mary Roberts
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Approaches to interrogate the erased histories of recycled archaeological objects
Archaeometry, Volume 64, Issue S1, Page 187-205, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Any archaeological artefact made from recyclable material may have been recycled before deposition. Three approaches are presented which have identified recycling in the archaeological record: (1) the application of log ratio analyses to investigate compositional data indicates that Roman glass was recycled and reapplied as a glaze on Parthian
Jonathan R. Wood
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Examining Visual Representations of Political and Military Interactions between the Sassanids and the Romans [PDF]
پیکره, 2023 Introduction: The political/military confrontation between the Sassanids and the Romans, in late ancient times, led to the formation of a kind of propaganda and deterrent art, which can be called "political art".
Ebrahim Raiygani +2 more
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Religion and Government in Sasanian Era: Introduction to Zarathustra’s Political Theology [PDF]
رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللی, 2019 The idea of Iran as a religious, cultural, and ethnic reality goes back as far as the end of the 6th century B.C.E. As a political idea, we first catch sight of it in the twenties of the 3rd century C.E.
Mostafa Ensafi, Shoja Ahmadvand,
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Dēnkard III language variation and the defence of socio-religious identity in the context of Early-Islamic Iran [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of the present paper is to illustrate as a case study, the linguistic and stylistic peculiarities characterizing the third book of the Dēnkard, one of the most authoritative texts in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature (9th-10th CE). The analysis will
Terribili, Gianfilippo
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