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to the military and political spheres. The present work aims to deepen the knowledge of the Art War frieze and to clarify some doubts regarding the original shape of the bas-reliefs, the constituent ... iconographic repertoire (Fig. 2) is displayed in the frieze depicting numerous engineering machines for construction and warfare and symbols related to the military and political themes (Pietrini et al. 2023
to shell beads. These results demonstrate how the use and manufacture of shell beads intersected with the socio-political changes that characterise the period. It also highlights the need for careful ... component of the political economy in the southern African Iron Age. African Iron Age; African farming communities; Social complexity; Disc bead production; Craft production; Specialisation; Trade
osteobiography was interpreted and contextualised in the complex socio-political scenario of post-classical Italy. The results document that he spent his childhood outside the Povegliano Veronese area, that during
contribute to current debates about the interplay between intensification, food risk, and ecology in times of political instability. ... into 24 counties that together constituted the Yizhou prefecture, a newly established political unit that was placed under the administration of a centrally appointed governor (Ban 2005; Li and Chen
in the political and ritual world. In particular, the different colours of metal objects provide important indicators of the social hierarchy as evidenced by burial practice. ... and offer a heuristic and powerful tool to interpret the relationship between metallurgy and society. For the Chinese Bronze Age, metallurgy performed a crucial part in the political and ritual world
from successful net-hunts have been linked to increasing cooperation and group cohesion via food sharing and political stratification via feasting rituals. The time and energy involved in creating and ... exported some of these collections to the USA. Due to ongoing civil war and political instability in southern Somalia, these materials have remained in curation at US institutions since. Between 2015 and
new results that can disclose unknown financial and political facts pertaining to the Second Punic War.
Archaeology, (L.I.R.A.), School of History and Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki 54124 , Greece 8 West Bačka District , Vojvodina, Serbia West Bačka ... identity— supported stability and belonging at a political level without implying ethnic or genetic unity. “Mycenaean” is an archeological shorthand for distinct population groups that used and exchanged to
distinctly cooler, drier setting compared with the majority of Maya sites in the surrounding lowlands. Previous archaeological research at Kaminaljuyu revealed it played an important political and economic ... Preclassic period (100 BCE–250 CE), Kaminaljuyu had become the dominant political center in the region. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of extensive canal and irrigation systems around the original
social, economic, and political transformations. ... some general patterns in animal husbandry practices during this transitional period, suggesting that changes in the orientation and scale of husbandry practices reflected different socio-political
data generated and their analysis. It is argued that the methodology can be used to collect and analyse data from other sites, and that this data could inform the political/administrative decision-making ... Sobreira contributed to raising social and political awareness of the imminent danger to which the site was exposed. Based on the model, a series of mitigating measures to halt the deterioration of the
This paper explores the impact of changing religious political rule on subsistence within a single city through time using stable isotope analysis of human and animal bone collagen. The diet and ... available to authorized users. The influence of socio-political and economic change on diet over the long term is just beginning to be directly investigated using isotope analysis. Investigations have
Throughout the Western provinces of the Roman Empire, greater economic and political connectivity had a major impact on agricultural production, which grew in scale and specialisation after ... biometry from lowland northern Italy (Po-Friulian Plain), this study investigates animal exploitation between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity in order to characterise the influence of Roman political and
craft and trade centres, others are seen more as socio-political and religious centres, and others are seen as refuges. Nevertheless, in many cases, the concentration of non-agricultural production within ... other oppida, which primarily functioned as public spaces for religious and political purposes and may also have played an important role in the formation of a collective identity ( Fernández-Götz 2014
area are manifested in both the procurement of raw material and the pottery repertoire. These are clearly related to the growing political and cultural role of Karkemiš during the last centuries of the ... material procurement: ceramics, mud bricks and other clay-based artefacts . In: Balossi Restelli F (ed) Arslantepe. Period VII. The development of a ceremonial/political centre in the first half of the
network of commercial, political, and cultural exchange, that spanned Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany across large parts of the ancient world. One of the ... , but it seems to have turned into a proper city and consequently became the political center of the oasis only some point between the late third and sixth centuries AD (Stark and Mirzaakhmedov 2023
One of the giant gaps in Tolkien scholarship has been to miss how deeply Saruman answers the age-old antagonism between rhetoric and philosophy. Like John Milton, Tolkien cannot bring himself to ... , instead of linking this distrust to the classical debate about philosophy, rhetoric, and demagoguery, Rosebury ascribes that distrust to Tolkien?s ??anarchist? suspicion of political processes and
One of the giant gaps in Tolkien scholarship has been to miss how deeply Saruman answers the age-old antagonism between rhetoric and philosophy. Like John Milton, Tolkien cannot bring himself to ... distrust to the classical debate about philosophy, rhetoric, and demagoguery, Rosebury ascribes that distrust to Tolkien’s “‘anarchist’ suspicion of political processes and institutions” (179)— which is true
productions around the 16th/17th centuries, coinciding with the displacement of populations and socio-political organisation brought by the Ottoman rule. ... corresponding to the changing political situation of Byzantium (Palamara et al. 2016; White 2009) . In spite of these efforts, very little is still known about how glazed ware productions, especially non
these pillared buildings were residences of political/religious leaders, who directed these rituals related to agricultural production and worship of elite ancestors. Such ritual practices were likely ... view is that rice cultivation was the main driver of the socio-political transformations that occurred over the Yayoi period (Imamura 1996; Ishikawa 2011; Mizoguchi 2013) . Most evidence for these
