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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"Near East"”.
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Visible Dead: Ancestral Landscapes in Prehistory between the Mediterranean and the Near East
… especially the marginal landscapes of the Near East and the Caucasus, such as kurgans, dolmens, and nawamis, attempts at their understanding within the cognitive world of ancient societies have often been hampered by the lack of archaeological data from potentially associated settlements. …
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America's Moral Responsibility?: The Debate over American Intervention in the Near East after WWI
… widespread support for U.S. intervention in the Near East to assist Christian minorities in the region, but the Wilson administration and the U.S. Senate took little action. The Armenian cause in particular was foremost in the minds of Americans. Many Americans felt the United States had a moral …
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Molecular detection and identification of phytoplasmas in sugarcane in Hawaii, Thailand, Cuba and Near East
The Yellow leaf syndrome (YLS) had been first detected and described in Hawaiian sugarcane plantations. The polerovirus Sugarcane yellow leaf virus was identified as a causal agent of the syndrome; however there was no strict correlation between the degree of symptom expression and the virus titre. …
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Evolution of the genus Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae) in the Eastern Mediterranean including the Near East and Caucasia
… region including Turkey, the Caucasus and the Near East is likely to be the only diversity hotspot of the genus Aristolochia in the northern hemisphere were up to 60 species and subspecies could be observed (Wanke 2007). Most important contributions to the knowledge of these species were …
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Nutritional Stress & Early Development in the Neolithic Near East: A Comparison of Adult and Subadult Tooth Size
… farming during the Neolithic Revolution in the Near East came with a diet that relied heavily on domesticated crops. This change in diet could lead to a reliance on lower nutritional quality foods compared to the hunter-gatherer diet. Such a decline in nutritional quality could lead to an …
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Pottery is king: bevel rim bowls and power in early urban societies of the ancient Near East
<p>This thesis is about how material objects, specifically ceramics, are used to create and perpetuate political power of the ruling class. My research will demonstrate how bevel rim bowls were a form of structural violence in the Uruk/Protoliterate period Mesopotamia by forcing the people to …
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Lesser Gods of the Ancient Near East and Some Comparisons with Heavenly Beings of the Old Testament
… in the texts and iconography of the Ancient Near East, and compares the variegated concept and imagery with the angelic realm in the Old Testament.</p> <p>Utilizing motifs commonly repeated in the mytho-epic literature of the Fertile Crescent--such as the divine assembly and its diverse …
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The symbolic and theological significance of the olive tree in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew scriptures
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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The Bronze Age Gardens Of The Aegean In The Context Of Contemporary Gardens In The Near East And Egypt
… gardens in the contemporary cultures of the Near East and Egypt. It argues that Aegean gardens, like the gardens of the Eastern Mediterranean, are used as value display, but that the people of the Aegean would have employed separate techniques for creating elite gardens due to environmental …
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THE EARLY OCCUPATION AT TELL ABU HUREYRA IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LATE EPIPALEOLITHIC OF THE LEVANT (NEAR EAST, CHIPPED STONE, NORTH SYRIA).
… north Syrian sites (Tell Mureybat, Dibsi Faraj East, Nahr el-Homr, el-Kowm, and Aarida 7). Using general tool classes, such as scrapers, burins, and notch/denticulates, the north Syrian assemblages are then compared, by means of distance coefficients, cluster analysis, and principal components …
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You Didn’t Have To Be There: Evidence of Humour in the Creation and Use of Material Objects From the Near East, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean, From the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age
… and Early Bronze Age in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern; areas where the marrying of two incongruous ideas can be found in ancient examples of ritual and/or art objects, a thought process facilitated by humour and perhaps even motivated by it. Therefore in this dissertation I seek to …
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The rural-urban dialectic in pre-monarchic Israel : Israel vis-a-vis the Canaanites and the Philistines, ca. 1200 to 1020 B.C.E
… societies and urban societies in the ancient Near East were essentially antagonistic. Urban centers were sites of consumption rather than production. They were parasitic upon their rural hinterlands, extracting the produce of the village peasantry by means of enforced tributary relations. This …
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Copper Metallurgy in Cilicia and the Amuq in the Second Millennium BC: Insights into Aspects of Bronze Age Technology and Trade
… coast within the exchange networks of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East during the second millennium BC (Middle and Late Bronze Ages). To investigate this, the project employed chemical and lead isotope analysis of copper objects from the Bronze Age sites of Tarsus, Kinet, and …
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The Ideology of the Sabbath: A Study in Comparative Religion
… relevant aspects of the culture of the ancient Near East, thus to clarify and relate the several motivations behind the emphasis with which the Sabbath was finally presented in the Hebrew Bible. As informative as it might be, later Jewish Sabbath ideology is specifically excluded from this study.
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Palmyra's ephemeral empire by Steven John Holcomb.
… richest, nor most significant city of the Roman Near East, yet it was the city that capitalized on Rome's weakness in the third century to lead its own independence movement, taking over vast swathes of wealthy territory for a brief period from approximately 270 to 273 AD. But why was Palmyra the …
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Globalising employee engagement: myths and reality; a Middle East perspective.
… study by companies operating in the Middle and Near East regions. Employee engagement has been of growing concern to business leaders as well as occupational psychologists, since it was claimed to relate to organisational productivity and long term success. Despite this growing concern and …
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