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New Insights Into Early Islamic Hydro‐Agricultural Strategies in Northwest Arabia: A Geoarchaeological Study of al‐Bint Dam (Sadd al‐Bint)

Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT The Sadd al‐Bint is one of the largest known ancient dams in Saudi Arabia, and yet, its construction date, function and collapse remained uncertain. This study presents the first numerical chronology for the dam, integrating radiocarbon dating, Bayesian modelling, geomorphological analysis and hydrological modelling to reconstruct its history.
Bruno Depreux, Munirah AlMushawh, Stephen McPhillips, Guillaume Chung‐To, Sylvain Colin, Elora Chambraud, Kévin Guadagnini, Saifi AlShilali, Mashael AlDughailbi, Fatimah AlRashidi, Khalid AlKhaldi, Charlotte Faiers, Rémy Crassard, Guillaume Charloux   +13 more
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 220-243, May 2025.
This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
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Remote Sensing Analysis and LiDAR Experimenting in the Espique Valley (La Peza, Granada, Spain)

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 395-407, April/June 2025.
ABSTRACT The Espique valley is a small space at the foot of the mountain, practically closed, which hides a rich archaeological heritage, not only of habitats but also of varied productive spaces. For some years now, MEMOLab UGR has been carrying out research that is now enriched with the contribution of LiDAR, with whose application we are ...
Jesús Rodríguez Bulnes, Julio M. Román Punzón, José M. Martín Civantos   +2 more
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Evidence of glass bead‐making in the early Islamic Iberian Peninsula

Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 364-379, April 2025.
Abstract Glass beads from two Islamic archaeological sites in the Tagus valley in central Spain were selected and analysed by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS), and a subset of samples (n = 6) was analysed for Pb isotopes by multicollector thermal ionization mass spectrometry (MC‐TIMS).
Cristina Boschetti, Jorge de Juan Ares, Sophie Gilotte, Catherine Guerrot, Nadine Schibille   +4 more
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Al‐Madina Document in Contemporary Arab‐Muslim and Western Scholarship: Surveying and Assessing some Intellectual Orientations and Reading Strategies1

The Muslim World, Volume 114, Issue 1-2, Page 49-66, Winter-Spring 2024.
Abstract This short essay attempts at displaying briefly some examples of scholarly and intellectual interests in al‐Madina Document, which one can find in Arab and Western literature today. It endeavors to highlight the primary, focal conceptual orientations and the contextual concerns and motifs that make the Arab and the Western intellectual scenes ...
Najib George Awad
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XRF Analysis of Village and Urban Basalt Architecture in the Hippos Territorium during the Roman Period

Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 719-738, August 2024.
Abstract This case study examines the use of X‐ray fluorescence (XRF) as an effective method for defining distinct chemical compositions of local basalt stone from different sources in the Roman period, even when their quarries have not been identified.
Mechael Osband, Michael Eisenberg, Jeffery R. Ferguson   +2 more
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Halal and Makruk: Muslim archaeological fish assemblages as cultural identifiers in the Iberian Middle Ages?

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 34, Issue 4, July/August 2024.
Abstract Muslim religion has strict rules to determine what kinds of foodstuffs, and under what circumstances, are deemed appropriate for consumption. Fishes are not an exception to this rule and features such as body shape or the presence and conspicuousness of scales dictate whether certain species are acceptable or rejected.
Laura Llorente‐Rodriguez, Arturo Morales‐Muñiz, Eufrasia Roselló‐Izquierdo   +2 more
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Composition and affinities of glass from the Ma'agan Mikhael B shipwreck, Israel

Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 340-351, April 2024.
Abstract Material recovered from the Ma'agan Mikhael B shipwreck, off the coast of northern Israel, includes a significant assemblage of glass, which appears to represent waste workshop material (cullet) collected for recycling. Twenty‐three samples were selected for analysis for major and minor elements using SEM‐EDS, to provide insight into the ...
Agnese Benzonelli, Eyal Natan, Yael Gorin‐Rosen, Ian C. Freestone   +3 more
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Zainab's traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 168-186, March 2024.
Abstract Since the 1979 Revolution, Iranian pilgrims have engaged in saint visitation (ziyarat) to sites in Syria. By travelling via Turkey on buses, and venerating Sayyida Zainab at their destination, these pilgrims disrupt conventional conceptions of not only Islamic ritual, but also Iranian mobility under sanctions.
Emrah Yıldız
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Art Deco public garden rehabilitation

Sculpture, Monuments and Open Space, Volume 73, Issue 3-4, Page 132-158, September-December 2024.
Edward Hamm
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