Dirt, purity, and spatial control: anthropological perspectives on Ancient Egyptian Society and Culture in the Middle Kingdom [PDF]
The concepts of purity and pollution were central to the maintenance of social boundaries in ancient Egyptian culture. Anthropological approaches, in particular the work of Mary Douglas, are useful in examining their impact on social structure and ...
Maitland, Margaret
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Microtremor response of a mass movement in Federal District of Brazil [PDF]
The present study provides a brief description of the ambient noise recorded at a slow moving mass movement in Ribeirão Contagem Basin. The area is an interesting natural laboratory as river detachment processes in a number of different stages can be ...
Cárdenas-Soto, Martin +5 more
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Nuevos datos acerca de la explotación de la vid en el eneolítico español [PDF]
Hallazgos de semillas de uva en el prado de Jumilla (Murcia), junto con otros datos de diversos yacimientos prehistóricos, aportan indicios de la explotación de "vitis vinifera". L. en España desde el tercer milenio.
Walker, Michael J.
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The Transitional Type of Tomb at Saqqara North and Abusir South [PDF]
The recent discoveries of the Czech mission show clearly that Abusir formed with Saqqara a single geographical unit in ancient Egypt and that the modern separation of them is outdated. Abusir seems to have played the crucial role as the last area into which the necropolis expanded after exhausting the space occuppied by the Archaic Cemetery of North ...
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Archaeology from Space: Advanced Satellite Imagery Through the Work of Sarah Parcak [PDF]
The ancient past and the technological future come together in “space archaeology.” Focusing on the colorful career of Sarah Parcak, this article shows how advanced satellite imagery is being used to discover new archaeological sites—as well as to ...
Philibert, Rebecca
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Geomorphological Development of the Memphite Floodplain Over the Past 6,000 Years [PDF]
The Memphite ruin mounds around the modern town of Mit Rahina in northern Egypt form a part of a region around which the capital of Egypt mi grated through time. Some of these migrations were the responses to landscape changes and the area is one that is
Bunbury, Judith
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Palaeopathological and demographic data reveal conditions of keeping of the ancient baboons at Gabbanat el-Qurud (Thebes, Egypt). [PDF]
Van Neer W +5 more
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Biomolecular analyses enable new insights into ancient Egyptian embalming. [PDF]
Rageot M +11 more
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Form and symbol in ancient Egypt [PDF]
From thesis: The Egyptian civilization was regarded by the ancients as the ultimate example of' a morally regulated way of life; their judicious political economy was the admiration of the Elians and both Pythagoras and Plato accepted it as ideal, the ...
Verwey, Erdmuthe Wilhemina
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Molecular Clocks and Archeogenomics of a Late Period Egyptian Date Palm Leaf Reveal Introgression from Wild Relatives and Add Timestamps on the Domestication. [PDF]
Pérez-Escobar OA +28 more
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