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Dendrochronological evidence for long-distance timber trading in the Roman Empire. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2019
Bernabei M, Bontadi J, Rea R, Büntgen U, Tegel W.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Rise of the Sassanian Elephant Corps: Elephants and the Later Roman Empire

, 2007
The Sassanian Persians used elephants on various occasions against the armies of the Later Roman Empire. This article considers when elephants were first incorporated into the Sassanian army, why they were thought necessary, their deployment and ...
Chanles, Michael
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The Pictures and the Frame: Banknote Iconography and Bottom‐Up Nationalism in Pre‐ and Post‐Revolutionary Tunisia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Bottom‐up nationalism’—the belief that the nation is of the people, by the people and for the people—can serve as a powerful collective action frame for mass mobilization. We study the evolution of Tunisian dinar banknote iconography as an indicator of the institutionalization of bottom‐up nationalism before and after the Jasmine Revolution ...
Jacques E. C. Hymans, Chloe Bernadaux
wiley   +1 more source

A New Perspective on the Arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean Genetic Influx in Central Italy Before the Onset of the Roman Empire. [PDF]

Genome Biol Evol
Ravasini F, Conati Barbaro C, Scheib CL, Tambets K, Metspalu M, Cruciani F, Trombetta B, D'Atanasio E.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Emperor I of the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire Pepper Prespentt : The Spice of the Spike

, 1977
Black and white photo of Pepper Prespentt Emperor I "The Genesis ...
The Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire
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Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
wiley   +1 more source

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.
europepmc   +1 more source

MINDING THE GAP: A METHODOLOGICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL REASSESSMENT OF EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN PURPLE‐DYE PRODUCTION IN THE BRONZE AND IRON AGES

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.
Summary Purple dye was an iconic status symbol in the ancient Mediterranean, yet tracing the expansion and shift of production from the Aegean to the Levant encounters substantial methodological difficulties. Using Tel Shiqmona – a unique industrial centre with a continuous Iron Age sequence – as an archaeological benchmark, this study defines detailed
Golan Shalvi
wiley   +1 more source

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
europepmc   +1 more source

Urbanism and the division of labour in the Roman Empire. [PDF]

J R Soc Interface, 2017
Hanson JW, Ortman SG, Lobo J.
europepmc   +1 more source