Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 12, December 2024.The Euphrates Softshell Turtle (Rafetus euphraticus) is an endangered freshwater turtle native to the Tigris‐Euphrates river system. As a key component of their nesting habitat, this study quantitatively assesses the occurrence of sand areas in the upper part of the Tigris in Turkey based on remote sensing data.
Murat Biricik +2 more
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River definitions reciprocally define us
River Research and Applications, Volume 40, Issue 9, Page 1747-1753, November 2024.Abstract This article explores different definitions of river, and in doing so, considers how our efforts to define rivers illuminate aspects of the human condition. Through an exploration of our definitions of river, through the human imagination, in poetry, music, and human's actions, this article considers how our nature is reflected back by rivers ...
Antonia Sohns
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The Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East
The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 1154-1196, November 2024.Abstract This paper investigates the causes and the consequences of the emergence of agriculture in the Middle East. Agriculture has emerged in many parts of the world since the end of the last Ice Age about 15 000 years ago. The paper first surveys the Palaeolithic Period to understand why agriculture did not emerge earlier.
Robert C. Allen
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A FAIENCE HEAD OF A BEARDED MALE FROM TEL ABEL BETH MAACAH: ICONOGRAPHY, TECHNOLOGY AND CONTEXT
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 373-398, November 2024.Summary A faience head depicting a bearded male was unearthed in a ninth‐century BC context at Tel Abel Beth Maacah, located on the modern Israel‐Lebanese border. During the Iron Age, the site was at the interface between the kingdoms of Israel and Aram‐Damascus and the Phoenician city‐states of Tyre and Sidon.
N. Yahalom‐Mack +5 more
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Technopolitical Construction of a River Basin: Turkey's Encounters and Adventures with the "TVA Idea". [PDF]
NTM, 2023 Alkan A.
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Connected in diversity: Isotopic analysis refines provenance for Islamic plant-ash glass from the eastern Silk Roads. [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Lü QQ, Basafa H, Henderson J.
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Management and domestication of cattle (Bos taurus) in Neolithic Southwest Asia. [PDF]
Anim Front, 2021 Arbuckle BS, Kassebaum TM.
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Oral and dermal exposure to natural radionuclides and heavy metals in water and sediments of Nile River, Qena, southern Egypt. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Salahel Din K, Mahmoud F.
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Epipalaeolithic animal tending to Neolithic herding at Abu Hureyra, Syria (12,800-7,800 calBP): Deciphering dung spherulites. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Smith A +3 more
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Were there royal herds? Understanding herd management and mobility using isotopic characterizations of cattle tooth enamel from Early Dynastic Ur. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Greenfield TL +7 more
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