Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 811-849, May 2026.Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani +2 more
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The Origins of Terracing in the Southern Levant and Patch Cultivation/Box Fields
Journal of Landscape Ecology, 2017 This paper looks at various suggestions relating to what incipient and early forms of terracing might have looked like, and goes on to suggest that some of the earliest terraces in the southern Levant may have emerged from horticultural practices, and ...
Gibson Shimon, Lewis Rafael Y.
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The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 757-780, May 2026.Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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Long-distance trade in the Middle Chalcolithic of the southern Levant: The case of the olivine beads from Tel Tsaf, Jordan Valley, Israel. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Rosenberg D +5 more
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CULTURAL FUSION IN LATE BRONZE AGE GOLDWORK: DIADEMS AND MOUTH‐PIECES FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 151-179, May 2026.Summary This study investigates recently discovered gold diadems and mouth‐pieces from seven chamber tombs and one shaft tomb at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke, dating from the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC. The chamber tombs, all containing multi‐generational burials, yielded a variety of ornaments, which are analysed in ...
Peter M. Fischer
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Revisiting Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) body size change in the southern Levant: A case for anthropogenic impact. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Munro ND, Lebenzon R, Sapir-Hen L.
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Multi-isotope evidence of population aggregation in the Natufian and scant migration during the early Neolithic of the Southern Levant. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Santana J +10 more
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Physical geography, isolation by distance and environmental variables shape genomic variation of wild barley (Hordeum vulgare L. ssp. spontaneum) in the Southern Levant. [PDF]
Heredity (Edinb), 2022 Chang CW +4 more
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The Rise, Expansion, and Decline of the Italian Cloth Industries, 1100 - 1730: a study in conjoncture, transaction costs, and comparative advantage [PDF]
This study of the Italian wool-based textile industries (woollens, worsteds, and serges) seeks to examine its rise, expansion, and ultimate decline, over a period of five centuries (from ca. 1200 to ca.
John H. Munro
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