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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Western Asia"”.
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Searching for the origins of early Islamic brass-making in Western Asia
… with earlier brass-making in Europe and Asia. Securely dated archaeological finds from sites across Western Asia provide new evidence and a new opportunity to trace the development of these traditions. In this thesis, I present analyses of hundreds of excavated artefacts from regional …
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Production and Consumption of Middle Islamic Ceramics (1000-1500 CE) in Western Asia: Regional Practices in an Interconnected World
… presents a stylistic and technological study on Western Asian ceramics dating from 1000–1500 CE. The production and consumption of ceramics is used as a proxy to explore how social practices at the local level were formulated within the broader framework of Islam. The Islamic world has been …
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Britain and the Greek-Turkish war and settlement of 1919-1923: the pursuit of security by "proxy" in Western Asia Minor
… out to examine British policy over the area of Western Asia Minor and the Straits, one of the three vital strategic spots that Britain sought to safeguard in the area of the Near and Middle East, alongside Persia and Iraq, after the end of the First World War. The focus is on Britain’s attitude …
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Re-assessing the Value of the Snake Artefacts under the lens of Communities of Practice: The Role of Communities in Iron Age II south-eastern Arabia
… of south-eastern Arabia and the wider region of western Asia. Numerous debates regarding the origin and significance of these artefacts – found in the archaeological record either as ceramic appliqués or as self-standing metal figurines – have ensued during the last two decades. Scholarship has …
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Revisão sistemática dos Enchodontidae (Euteleostei: Aulopiformes) do Brasil
… Cretaceous from north Africa, south Europe, western Asia, southwestern North America, northeastern and south Brazil. In south Brazil, this family was recorded in the Atlântida Formation, Turonian of the Pelotas Basin, being recognized Rharbichthys cf. ferox and Enchodus cf. venator. Regarding …
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Leaves that Sway: Gold Xianbei Cap Ornaments from Northeast China
… states called Yan that ruled parts of Northeast Asia during the third to fifth centuries CE. Until now, the history of the Murong and the rapidly emerging field of Murong archaeology have been published almost exclusively in Chinese. This dissertation seeks to rectify the lack of Western …
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Identifying the beginnings of Sheep Husbandry in Westen China
Situated at the two sides of Eurasia, Western Asia and China are both important centres for the origins of agriculture and civilization. Key suites of domestic crops, animals, and technologies were independently developed at these two centres. Scholars have been interested in seeing whether there …
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Eurasian Middle and Late Miocene Hominoid Paleobiogeography and the Geographic Origins of the Homininae
… and paleogeographic patterns in the Eurasian Miocene; a time period and geographic expanse rich in evidence of lineage origins and dispersals of numerous mammalian lineages, including apes. Traditionally, the geographic origin of the African ape and human lineage is considered to have …
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The American-Soviet confrontation in the Mediterranean after World War II : a review of the literature
… of power was maintained in its favour, and in Western Asia by supporting regional states there (Fenech 1993: forthcoming).In its turn Czarist Russia, pursuing its ambition to become a continental and maritime Great Power, was intent on breaking into the Mediterranean from the Black Sea. Like …
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Cultural Transition in the Northern Levant during the Early Iron Age as Reflected in the Aegean-style Pottery at Tell Tayinat
… that originated in areas to the west—Cyprus, Western Asia Minor, or the Greek Mainland—who were in iii search of more hospitable environs to settle? Or were they elements of the indigenous population forced to start anew after the socio-economic disruptions at the end of the Late Bronze Age? …
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Investigation of Clinically Relevant Fluconazole Resistance Mechanisms in the Fungal Pathogen Candida parapsilosis
… common in the countries of South America, Western Asia, Mediterranean Europe, and Southern Africa. For many of these countries, fluconazole and other triazoles are the first line antifungal agents used for effective treatment of invasive Candida infection. Until recently, rates of …
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Improving Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in Kuwaiti Housing Developments at Design, Construction, and Occupancy Stages
… in the northeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia with a desert weather climate. The prevailing wind is north and northeast and that causes sand storms. Also most of the towns and cities are situated and constructed within the vicinity of many industrial sites, petroleum …
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South Asian summer monsoon variability: a modelling study with the atmospheric regional climate model HIRHAM5
… directly affected by the caprices of the South Asian summer monsoon rainfall. India receives around 78 % of the annual precipitation during the June-September months, the summer monsoon season of South Asia. But, the monsoon circulation is not consistent throughout the entire summer season. …
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Social Transformations and Ceramic Production during the 4th millennium BCE in the Shahrizor Plain and Bazyan Valley, Iraqi Kurdistan. A Geochemical and Petrographic Study.
The Late Chalcolithic (c.4400-3200 BCE) in Mesopotamia featured new forms of socio-political and economic organisation, increasing material cultural homogeneity, resource accumulation and (re)-distribution. The Uruk Phenomenon (traditionally dated to c.3600-3200 BCE) is characterised by the …