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Biocultural diversity of common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) across Eurasia. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2020 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
Pollegioni P +10 more
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Paleopathology of human tuberculosis and the potential role of climate. [PDF]
Interdiscip Perspect Infect Dis, 2009 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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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 152-165, May 2023., 2023 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
Religion Compass, Volume 15, Issue 11, November 2021., 2021 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
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 250-267, August 2021., 2021 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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Translation Alignment for Ancient Greek: Annotation Guidelines and Gold Standards
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2023 This paper covers three datasets containing texts in Ancient Greek, manually aligned at word level against translations in English (Grc-Eng), Portuguese (Grc-Por) and Latin (Grc-Lat).
Chiara Palladino +5 more
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Some Intercultural Roots of Purāṇic Mythological Cycle around Nārāyaṇa
Comparative Literature: East & West, 2022 In this paper, I use the structural analysis of myth proposed by C. Lévi-Strauss to show that there is a structural similarity between two mythological cycles of dying(sleeping)-and-rising god: around Ba’al and around Nārāyaṇa.
Andrew Schumann
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Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age, by Y. Cohen [author] [PDF]
, 2013 This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca.
Cohen, Yoram
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Filial Duties in the Ugaritic Epic of Danilu and Aqhatu
Collectanea Theologica, 2023 The list of filial duties from the Aqhatu story constitutes a passage unique to the literature of the ancient Near East, emphasized in the epic by its fourfold repetition in close proximity. This is why the list has attracted much attention of scholars,
Marcin Majewski
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Panta rei, 2023 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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