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Biocultural diversity of common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) across Eurasia. [PDF]
Little is known about how anthropogenic processes have affected the evolution of tree species with a long‐time‐scale history of human utilization such as common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.). In this study, we evaluated the impact of isolation by distance processes, landscape heterogeneity, and cultural boundaries
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Paleopathology of human tuberculosis and the potential role of climate. [PDF]
Both origin and evolution of tuberculosis and its pathogens (Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex) are not fully understood. The paleopathological investigation of human remains offers a unique insight into the molecular evolution and spread including correlative data of the environment. The molecular analysis of material from Egypt (3000–500 BC), Sudan (
Nerlich AG, Lösch S.
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Summary Studies of dog remains focused on the Iron Age southern Levant generally highlight their unique nature in the archaeological context, specifically in relation to their post‐mortem exploitation. Here we review the published archaeological and textual data to evaluate the current understanding of dogs’ roles in their Iron Age settings.
Lidar Sapir‐Hen, Deirdre N. Fulton
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Coping with time and death in the Ancient Near East
Abstract All humans, past and future, are forced to grapple with the abstract phenomenon of passing and ending time, as well as ideas about time, such as eternity and finality. Death especially is a confrontation with the passing, ending, irreversibility, and unpredictability of time, over which humans have little to no power. In response to the threat
Irene Sibbing‐Plantholt
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THE POZO MORO RELIEFS (CHINCHILLA, SPAIN): A MEDITERRANEAN HERO BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Summary At Pozo Moro, archaeologists discovered the oldest series of architectural and sculptural remains currently known in Iberian culture. It is traditionally assumed that they were part of a single ten‐meters‐high tower that was built – and immediately collapsed – in the late sixth century BC, some fifty years before an Iberian necropolis ...
Jorge García Cardiel +1 more
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En el momento en el que la República Árabe de Siria proclamó su independencia en 1946, puso su patrimonio arqueológico al servicio de la construcción de la identidad nacional.
Juan Álvarez García
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El Ciclo de Baal como representación social de la realeza de Ugarit
El artículo propone interpretar el Ciclo canónico de Baal en términos de un rol esperado de la realeza de la ciudad de Ugarit. Se sostendrá que los distintos mitemas del texto pueden ser analizados como configuraciones del orden y del caos estatalmente ...
Javier Norberto Nuñez
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River Ordeal in Hittite Written Documents
Ordeal practice, which has an important place in the Laws of the Ancient Near East, can be defined as the act of judging. However, such trials were carried out to understand whether a crime had indeed been perpetrated by a certain person rather than to ...
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Crónica de la destrucción de una ciudad del reino de Ugarit (TU 00-2.61)
La carta ugarítica 00-2.61, cuya numeración corresponde al Banco de datos filológicos semíticos noroccidentales, es un documento importante para la historia militar de Ugarit. Narra la toma y destrucción de una ciudad a manos de Binḫarrānu, personaje del
Jesús-Luis Cunchillos, Juan-Pablo Vita
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Çivi Yazılı Metinler Işığında Ugarit Medeniyetinde Kurban ve Kurban Ritüelleri
Ugarit, Kuzey-Batı Suriye tarihi ve coğrafyası için keşfedilmiş önemli antik medeniyetlerden bir tanesidir. Devlet merkezi Ras Şamra’nın Akdeniz sahilinde önemli bir liman kenti olması Ugarit’in jeopolitik önemini artırırken, güneyde Mısır, kuzeyde Hitit
Aslı Kahraman Çinar
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