Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR
Recent Submissions
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A Protocorinthian aryballos with a myth scene from Tegea
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)During the preparation of the new exhibition in the Museum of Tegea it was discovered that one composed fragment from a Protocorinthian aryballos with a complicated, figured representation, found during the excavations of ... -
Traces of Trade in the Tarim Basin: A case for applying network models to the study of ancient trade
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article will discuss the possibilities and limitations of network models and analysis in tracing ancient trade routes. In addition to a general discussion of network models, the article will present a short case study, ... -
The 100,000–77,000‑Year Old Middle Stone Age Micromammal Sequence from Blombos Cave, South Africa: Local Climatic Stability or a Tale of Predator Bias?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In this paper, we present a case study of the micromammal sequence from Marine Isotope Stage 5 (130,000–71,000 YBP) at Blombos Cave on the southern Cape coast of South Africa. Our analyses of the micromammal assemblage ... -
The Manichaean Church in Kellis
(Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies; 100, Book, 2021)The Manichaean Church in Kellis presents an in-depth study of social organisation within the religious movement known as Manichaeism in Roman Egypt. In particular, it employs papyri from Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab), a village ... -
Scaling up and zooming in: global history and high-definition archaeology perspectives on the longue durée of urban–environmental relations in Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Combining global perspectives with localized case studies and integrating scientific and material evidence of environmental change in historical narratives are amongst the main challenges for the field of global history ... -
Associations and Interactions in Urban Networks of the Roman Near East
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Relational approaches have profoundly changed archaeology and related fields in recent years. This has shifted focus from agents to the interaction between them. Past processes, however, are finished and gone, and the only ... -
'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Das Schicksal der Handschrift Bergen, UB, MS 1550.5'
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Book review: Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies by Oliver Freiberger, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019
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Review essay: Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and With Comparison, written by Bruce Lincoln
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Ibadism and Law in Historical Contexts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Not Sunnis and not Shi’is, the Ibāḍī Muslims of Oman and some areas of North Africa form a “third branch” of Islam, with their own version of the Sharīʿa law. The development of this law displays many interconnections with ... -
A Palaeolithic bird figurine from the Lingjing site, Henan, China
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-10)The recent identification of cave paintings dated to 42–40 ka BP in Borneo and Sulawesi highlights the antiquity of painted representations in this region. However, no instances of three-dimensional portable art, well ... -
Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Environmental parameters constrain the distributions of plant and animal species. A key question is to what extent does environment influence human behavior. Decreasing linguistic diversity from the equator towards the ... -
Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Marine food–reliant subsistence systems such as those in the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) were not thought to exist in Europe until the much later Mesolithic. Whether this apparent lag reflects taphonomic biases or ... -
Later Stone Age human hair from Vaalkrans Shelter, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, reveals genetic affinity to Khoe groups
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Previous studies show that the indigenous people of the southern Cape of South Africa were dramatically impacted by the arrival of European colonists starting _400 years ago and their descendants are today mixed with ... -
Ethnographic Approaches: Contextual religious cosmopolitanisms in Mumbai
(Chapter, 2021)Based on material collected in a research project on the role of religion in the everyday life of selected Mumbai neighborhoods, this chapter begins by discussing the various stages of field research and the factors leading ... -
Sámi indigenous(?) religion(s)(?)—some observations and suggestions concerning term use
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)When writing about politically and culturally sensitive topics, term use is of great relevance. Sámi religion is a case in point. Words organise and create the world around us, and labels have direct consequences on how ... -
Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non-African people. Here, we report hominin and ...
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