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Topographical reconstruction of ancient Palermo: a note on its buildings for public spectacles and their relation with the Roman-period civic planning [PDF]
, 2016 Topographical studies in the last decades have greatly improved our knowledge of Roman Panormus (modern day Palermo) but many aspects of its urban planning still remain obscure. It is very hard work to clearly understand a city that has been continuously
Storchi, Paolo
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on Southern Europe, this article sheds light on the mining landscape of the early Middle Ages. Based on the current state of historical and archaeological knowledge, the article raises a number of questions that can be extended to other European regions.
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
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Special vs. Normal Mycenaean: Hand 24 and Writing in the Service of the King? [PDF]
, 1998 This paper given in honor of John T. Killen concerns the relationship between the written and the spoken word within the narrowly defined literate administrative record-keeping systems of Mycenaean palatial centers and focuses on questions connected with
Palaima, Thomas G.
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Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 381-392, June 2026.ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
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An Approach to Publish Spatial Data on the Web: The GeoLinked Data Case [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we report on an ongoing process aimed at publishing hydrographical data on the Web with a Spanish GeoLinked Data Use Case. Moreover, we discuss the process we followed, and propose methodological guidelines for all the activities involved ...
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Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Managing Death in Exile is a theatrical performance that draws on ethnographic research with long‐term asylum‐seekers from sub‐Saharan Africa in Hong Kong since 2012. The performance told the story of Denise (pseudonym), who had to manage the illness, funeral, cremation, and repatriation of ashes of her good friend, Rosie (pseudonym). Dying in
Sealing Cheng
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Edvard Munch’s Toponymic Codes
Venezia Arti, 2017 The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) created upwards of 1789 paintings of which only 14 are inscribed with toponyms. The extreme rarity of place names in his work invites consideration.
Berman, Patricia G.
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The Turkification of Toponyms in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2010 The present article examines the methods and stages of the policy of Turkification of the non-Muslim toponyms in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. Being stable linguistic facts, toponyms supply valuable material for topography and studies of
Lusine Sahakyan
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Formation features of Persian toponyms
Неофилология, 2020 This research is dedicated to the comprehension toponyms in the Persian language, which have their own formation features. Being a class of nouns, Persian toponyms have a wide variety of formation due to common linguistic processes in this region.
V. I. Yuzbashyev
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The names of the town and villages of Gozo (Malta) [PDF]
, 2010 The Maltese islands have been dominated by various rulers who left an imprint on the life, customs, and language of the inhabitants. This is evident also in the toponymy of the archipelago.
Zammit Ciantar, Joe
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