Dissertations / Theses: 'Ancient'

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Brunel, Samantha. "Paleogenomics of human population dynamics on the French territory between 7000 and 2000 before present." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCC282.

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Ces derniers 10000 ans en Eurasie occidentale ont été marqués par des transitions culturelles qui ont profondément transformé les sociétés humaines : l’apparition et la diffusion du Néolithique, de l’Âge du Bronze et de l’Âge du Fer. La paléogénomique, en analysant les génomes anciens, s’est attelée à en décrire les processus démographiques sous-jacents dans diverses parties du continent. En France cependant, la fin de la Préhistoire est seulement connue par le biais de l’archéologie, et n’a pas encore été explorée par la génétique à l’échelle du territoire. Nous avons produit un large jeu de données comprenant les génomes mitochondriaux, marqueurs du chromosome Y et génotypes d’une sélection de loci nucléaires d’intérêt via une procédure d’enrichissement pour 193 individus datant du Mésolithique, Néolithique, Âge du Bronze et Âge du Fer à travers le territoire de la France actuelle. Nous avons également généré les génomes à faible couverture de 58 individus répartis sur les mêmes périodes et recouvrant partiellement ce panel. L’intégralité de ces résultats offre, pour la première fois, un aperçu des dynamiques des lignées maternelles et paternelles ainsi que du génome nucléaire sur une période recouvrant 5000 ans. Que ce soient les lignées parentales ou le génome, différentes dynamiques apparaissent entre le nord et le sud de la France durant le Néolithique, avec un degré variable d’incorporation des populations de chasseurs-cueilleurs autochtones dans les communautés de fermiers. Ils mettent également en évidence, peu avant le début de l’Âge du Bronze, un flux de gènes dominé par des hommes dont la signature génétique des bergers de la Steppe Pontique, une signature qui ensuite persiste durant l’Âge du Fer, alors que la population montre peu de différentiation à l’échelle du territoire français. Certains marqueurs phénotypiques observés au Néolithique arborent une fréquence proche de celle observée dans la population européenne actuelle, indiquant des épisodes de sélection positive pré-datant le Néolithique, tandis que d’autres montrent des fréquences différentes, signe d’une sélection en cours sur ces loci. Cette étude accroit notre compréhension de relations entre les différentes populations de la fin de la Préhistoire, à l’échelle de la France et de l’Europe
The last 10,000 years in Western Eurasia were marked by cultural transitions that profoundly transformed human societies: the advent of the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Paleogenomics, the analysis of ancient genomes, started to address the underlying demographic processes in various parts of the continent. In France, however, Late Prehistory is only known from the rich archaeological records and not yet explored through genetics at a territory-wide scale. We generated a large dataset comprising the complete mitochondrial genomes, Y chromosome markers and genotypes on a number of nuclear loci of interest obtained through a DNA enrichment approach of 193 Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age individuals sampled across the territory of present-day France. It was complemented with the low-coverage genomes of 58 individuals partially overlapping this dataset. This panel provides, for the first time, a high-resolution 5,000-year transect of the dynamics of maternal and paternal lineages in France as well as of autosomal genotypes. Both parental lineages and genomic data revealed different dynamics in the North and the South of the French territory during the Neolithic, with varying degrees of incorporation of autochthonous hunter-gatherers lineages into farming communities. They also revealed a mostly male-driven gene flow from individuals deriving part of their ancestry from the Pontic Steppe at the onset of the Bronze Age, a signature that then persisted through the Iron Age. The various nuclear phenotypic markers we studied evolved differently. While some harbor present-day European frequencies already at the Neolithic epoch indicating ancient episodes of positive selection of these specific traits, others show different evolutionary stages throughout the Neolithic and the Bronze Age allowing us the establish more clearly the origin and evolution of the phenotypic traits that characterize the present-day European population. This study further expands our understanding of the relationship between populations during late Prehistory in France and across Europe

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Topalidu, Maria. "Ancient Greece." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2010. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/7328.

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Hill, Jay Scott. "Ancient Light." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501214/.

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Gentry, James. "Ancient pedophilia." Connect to resource, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37221.

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Сулим, Людмила Григорівна, Людмила Григорьевна Сулим, and Liudmyla Hryhorivna Sulym. "Ancient arabian physicians." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2011. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/15956.

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Jia, Daxin. "Ancient City Reservation." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96713.

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The thesis started from the nostalgia for the historic district and the life within it. I don't agree with the radical method of reforming the historic district at the moment, which is rebuilding the whole district or demolishing it. I tried to find a new way to reform the historic district, so that the new project can blend into the habitats' lifestyle, in which way people can reconnect to their home land. During the design process, there is movie scenes, kungfu novels, and the living moment from my childhood came to my mind. And I translate those scenes into the spaces in the project through an architectural language.
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I tried to find a new way to reform the historic district, so that the new project can blend into the habitats' lifestyle, in which way people can reconnect to their home land. During the design process, there is movie scenes, kungfu novels, and the living moment from my childhood came to my mind. And I translate those scenes into the spaces in the project through an architectural language.

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Mwanika, Eva N. "Ancient Egyptian Identity." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1090531381.

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Hoard, Laurie. "Ancient Egyptian priesthood." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Wickramasinghe, Mudiyanselage Wiyalamunne Gedara Chandima Shiromani Manike. "Slavery in ancient Greek poleis and ancient Sri Lanka : a comparison." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403705.

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Tran, Thi-Nguyen-Ny. "Détection des bactéries anciennes à partir de la pulpe dentaire." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX20662.

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Il a été démontré que la pulpe dentaire pouvait constituer un matériel de choix pour la paléomicrobiologie. Au début de ce travail de thèse, nous avons envisagé de rechercher les bactéries bactériémiques chez les mammifères à partir de la pulpe dentaire de dents contemporaines et anciennes. Au préalable, il était nécessaire de classer les dents modernes et anciennes mises à notre disposition par les zoologues et en particulier de déterminer l’espèce à laquelle les dents anciennes appartenaient car il est souvent difficile de différencier morphologiquement des dents appartenant à des espèces proches. Deux méthodes ont été utilisées pour réaliser cette partie de notre travail: la première méthode moléculaire avec comme outil, le gène séquençage du cytochrome b et la seconde protéomique par analyse des profils peptidiques de la pulpe dentaire. Les résultats obtenus ont confirmé que la pulpe dentaire peut constituer une source d’ADN ancien et de protéines anciennes.Dans un deuxième travail, faisant suite aux travaux effectués dans le laboratoire, en collaboration avec différentes équipes d’anthropologues, nous avons mis en place une technique de détection simultanée à haut débit d’ADN bactérien ancien combinée à une PCR «suicide». Cette technique appliquée à la pulpe dentaire de dents humaines anciennes a été utilisée pour détecter sept pathogènes. Les résultats obtenus par cette technique moléculaire attestent de la présence simultanée d’ADN de Y. pestis et de B. quintana dans la pulpe dentaire de dents prélevées sur des restes humains dans les sépultures de Bondy, France (XIème - XVème) et de Venise, Italie (XIVème - XVIème). Ces données suggèrent la transmission de Y. pestis par le pou de corps, vecteur connu de B. quintana, au cours des épidémies de peste ancienne. Les résultats obtenus ont confirmé ceux obtenus par cinq autres équipes que Y. pestis est l'agent responsable de la «Peste Noire». Les résultats de notre travail de Thèse contribuent à la paléomicrobiologie
The dental pulp has been demonstrated to be a suitable specimen on which to base paleomicrobiology studies. At the initiation of this Thesis work, we aimed to detect bacteria in the dental pulp extracted from contemporary and ancient mammals’ teeth. In mammals, the first task was the classification of species to which the teeth belong. In a first work, we have accomplished this task by two methods used in parallel: the molecular method based on cytochrome b gene sequencing and proteomic method by the dental pulp MALDI TOF mass spectrometry peptide profiling. The results of this work demonstrated that dental pulp is a source for studying both ancient DNA and ancient proteins. In a second work, following previous publications, we detected bacterial DNA from dental pulp of ancient human teeth using a multiplex high-throughput “suicide” PCR to detect seven pathogens (Yersinia pestis, Bacillus anthracis, Borrelia recurrentis, Bartonella quintana, Rickettsia prowazekii, Salmonella enterica Typhi and Poxvirus). We demonstrated the simultaneous presence of Y. pestis DNA and B. quintana DNA in dental pulp specimens collected from burials in Bondy, France dating 11th-15th and burials in Venice, Italy dating 14th-16th. This result may suggest the transmission of Y. pestis by the body louse, the known vector of B. quintana. Also, these results reinforce the large corpus of data produced by five different teams (Pusch et al., 2004 ; Cerutti et al., 2007 ; Bianucci et al., 2009 ; Haensch et al. 2010 ; Wiechmann et al. 2010) that the agent of the Black Death is Y. pestis. Our results herein contributed to the works in paleomicrobiology

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Liedeman, Gwendolene Caren. "Magic in the ancient Near East with special reference to ancient Israel." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52924.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this investigation an anthropological and comparative approach was employed in the study of magic in the ancient Near East. Firstly, a survey was presented with regard to anthropological theories throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This forms the background against which evidence on magic with respect to the cultures of the ancient Near East is investigated. Secondly, examples of magic in the Ancient Near East was discussed, with reference to Egypt, Mesopotamia and Hittite Anatolia. Reference was made to categories such as magic spells, objects, rituals and magical experts (magicians) and various examples were discussed. Thirdly, an analysis was made about the phenomenon of magic in ancient Israel. In this context magic plays a somewhat different role in comparison to its other ancient Near Eastern neighbours. It was shown that so-called miraculous actions, miracle workers (prophets) and other religious actions (curses and blessings) in the Hebrew Bible could definitely be associated with magic. The frequent prohibitions against magical practises furthermore suggest that magic was indeed been practiced in ancient Israel.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie ondersoek met betrekking tot magie in die ou Nabye Ooste word gebruik gemaak van 'n antropologiese en vergelykende benadering. Eerstens word 'n oorsig aangebied van antropologiese teorieë met betrekking tot magie in die negentiende en twintigste eeue. Dit vorm die agtergrond waarteen die verskynsel van magie in die ou Nabye Ooste ondersoek word. Tweedens word voorbeelde van magie in die ou Nabye Ooste ondersoek, met verwysing na Egipte, Mesopotamië en die Hetiete. Spesiale aandag word gegee aan kategorieë soos magiese spreuke, magiese objekte, rituele en magiese spesialiste. Dit word toegelig met verskillende toepaslike voorbeelde. Derdens word 'n ondersoek gedoen na die aard van magie in Oud-Israel. In hierdie konteks het magie ietwat van 'n ander rol vervul in vergelyking met die ander ou Nabye Oosterse bure. Daar word aangedui dat sekere wonderdade, wonderwerkers (profete), en ander religieuse aksies (vervloekinge en seënuitsprake) in die Hebreeuse Bybel met magie geassosieer kan word. Die vele verbiedinge teen die beoefening van magie is 'n duidelike aanduiding dat magie inderdaad in Israel gepraktiseer is.

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Quintanilla, Pablo. "Language, Thoughtand Falsehood in Ancient Greek Phi/osophy (Issues in Ancient Philosophy)." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113055.

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Sluiter, Ineke. "Ancient grammar in context : contributions to the study of ancient linguistic thought /." Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35599537p.

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Sluiter, I. "Ancient grammar in context contributions to the study of ancient linguistic thought /." Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/22571090.html.

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Wharton, Katherine Louise. "Philosophy as a practice of freedom in ancient India and ancient Greece." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2007. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28915/.

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Education in ancient India begins with a ritual initiation (Upanayana) in which the student is reborn from the womb of the teacher. This image reflects the method of transmission of revelatory knowledge. The student memorises sacred verses by replicating his teacher's recitation. This thesis contrasts this image of replication with the image of midwifery that Socrates uses to describe his educational method. Socrates claims to be barren of wisdom. He does not pass down any knowledge but instead watches over the birth of his student's ideas. Both the ancient Indian and the Socratic systems of education claim to free the student but they both affirm completely different forms of freedom. Socrates frees the student to think for themselves, but the ancient Indian method frees the student by means of inherited revelation. This thesis compares philosophical practices of freedom which rest on commitment to tradition with those that rest on the rejection of tradition. Chapter One examines the way that the student is committed to the ritual tradition in the Brahmanical Upanayana. Chapters Two and Three discuss the relationship between the student and the ritual tradition in the Upanisads. Chapter Four analyses Socrates relationship with democratic culture. Chapter Five interprets the midwife metaphor in detail and compares the Socratic method of education to the Brahmanical and Upanisadic methods. This thesis contrasts philosophical practices of freedom that are founded on a value of trust or faith (sraddha) in tradition with those that are founded on a value of testing or examination (elenchus). It aims to challenge the Socratic principle of limitless questioning and defend the philosophical value of predetermination, non-agency and perfect obedience.

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Miyashita, Hiroaki. "Ancient ships of Japan." Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4415.

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Ancient ships of Japan, which are little known outside of Japan, are presented based on the studies of past researchers, as well as a comprehensive analysis of archaeological remains. The process of development from logboats to extended logboats or semibuilt-up ships, and finally to built-up ships is traced. This study covers evidence from the Early Jomon period (4000 - 3000 B.C.E.) through the Kofun period (300 - 700 C.E.). A large number of logboat remains date to the Jomon period, and it is these logboats which become the foundation of later Japanese ships. The number of ship remains from the Yayoi period diminishes. Therefore, iconographic evidence, mainly clay ship figures and drawings, are used in order to reconstruct the ships from that time. This thesis is an account of what is presently known about the ancient watercraft of Japan, based on the existing ethnographic literature, the archaeological record, and iconographic sources.

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Marshall, Eireann Alexandra Catherine. "Images of ancient Libyans." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367980.

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Ekstam, Emma. "Ancient patterns - Modern technology." Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk Design & Illustration, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-4686.

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Jag har gjort en serie mönster som handlar om genetiskt modifierade grödor och djur. Eftersom mytbildningarna kring gentekniken löper amok, har jag haft svårighet att fastställa fakta. Jag har därför valt att hänge mig åt fantasin. Den bildvärld jag försökt skapa handlar om att vistas i gränslandet mellan fakta och fiktion utan att kunna få några klara svar.Jag har velat hitta en spänning mellan en vacker och dekorativ yta och ett makabert innehåll. Mönstret är vackert att se på till en början för att vid en närmare titt avslöja mindre behagliga detaljer.Till mina mönster har jag hämtat inspiration från medeltida symbolik och bildkonsten kring sekelskiftet år 1500, då nya kontinenter och kulturer upptäcktes. Jorden hade varit platt, plötsligt var den rund. Mänskligheten hade varit centrum av universum, plötsligtbefann vi oss i periferin.Nu som då står mänskligheten inför stora förändringar. Vi har inga fler kontinenter att upptäcka, men jag tror att genteknikens framsteg kommer innebära minst lika omvälvande förändringar.

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Doherty, Shawn Patrick 1976. "Ancient West Mexican bellmaking." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107308.

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Toner, Jeremy Peter. "Leisure and ancient Rome." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272570.

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Foa, Roberto. "Ancient Polities, Modern States." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:26718768.

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Political science is concerned with the study of polities. However, remarkably few scholars are familiar with the polities of the premodern era, such as Vijayanagara, Siam, Abyssinia, the Kingdoms of Kongo or Mutapa, or the Mysore or Maratha empires. This dissertation examines the legacies of precolonial polities in India, during the period from 1707 to 1857. I argue that, contrary to the widespread perception that the Indian subcontinent was a pre-state society, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a time of rapid defensive modernization across the subcontinent, driven by the requirements of gunpowder weaponry and interstate warfare among South Asian regimes and against European colonial powers. These changes included the broadening and deepening of the tax base, consolidation of territorial control, reorganization of domestic militaries to use infantry and gunpowder weapons, rationalization of the administration through use of accounts and printed records, and the professionalization and functional differentiation of the executive branch. I then trace the boundaries of precolonial eighteenth-century South Asian polities, in order to show that districts of India that lie narrowly within the boundary lines of historically centralized states perform significantly better today on a wide variety of district-level indicators of state effectiveness than those narrowly outside these boundaries, despite the fact that these borders largely ceased to exist in the early nineteenth century. These estimated effects are robust to a wide variety of controls, placebo tests for border displacement, the exclusion of individual polities, and controls for the boundaries of India’s contemporary federal states. I verify the persistent legacy of precolonial states using a combination of archival research, district-level colonial data on taxation and public goods from 1853 to 1901, and a field test of bureaucratic responsiveness conducted in the state of Karnataka. Using extensive archival research on the fiscal and bureaucratic structure of Indian states in the eighteenth century, I show that following the decline of the Mughal Empire, warfare between “challenger states” prompted an accumulation of bureaucratic and fiscal capacity at the local level, and that this capacity has persisted through the colonial era to the present day. In contrast to “bottom-up” theories of state capacity which root institutional strength in societal characteristics such as ethnic homogeneity, social capital, or land equality, it is argued that government effectiveness is cumulatively built through long-term historical investments in state capacity, and that, in India, an important phase of investment occurred during the warring states period of the eighteenth century. Finally, I show that this relationship exists beyond the South Asian context, both in cross-country regressions of the effect of state antiquity on contemporary state capacity, and by conducting a subnational historical analysis within districts of the Former Soviet Union. I conclude that augmenting the state’s power to tax, regulate, or conscript is, in Weber’s phrase, “a long and slow boring of hard boards”, and the resources required in order to attain a functioning state - bureaucratic infrastructure, norms of compliance, and affective loyalty - are accumulated only very gradually. Yet where long-extant political regimes were successful in monitoring, coercing, and mobilizing citizens towards state goals they generate a reservoir of legitimacy and compliance, that is essential for making states work in the world today.
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Hamilton, Mark Wade. "Divination in ancient Israel." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Rendsburg, Gary Alan. "Diglossia in ancient Hebrew /." New Haven (Conn.) : American oriental society, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb388319157.

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Bruman, Henry J. "Alcohol in Ancient Mexico /." Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38908829w.

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Diss. Ph. D.--Geography--Berkeley--University of California, 1940. Titre de soutenance : Aboriginal drink areas in New Spain.
Bibliogr. p. 136-144. Bibliogr. des oeuvres de l'auteur p. 147-148. Index.

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Oredsson, Dag. "Moats in ancient Palestine /." Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40070098g.

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Friedenbach, James Walsh. "Modern rhetoric/ancient realities." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/346.

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Wasef, Sally A. "Ancient Egyptian Sacred Ibis Mummies: Evolutionary Mitogenomics Resolves the History of Ancient Farming." Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367796.

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Animal mummies were extremely important to the people of ancient Egypt. The extraordinary number of different animal species that were mummified is evidence of this importance. The vast majority of these mummies served as ritual offerings by pilgrims to please the gods. These are known as “votive offerings”, and are thought to have flourished from the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty (664-525 BC) to the Graeco-Roman Period (30 BC–300 AD). Of these, none are found in quantities as great as the Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) that were offered to the God of Wisdom and Writing, Thoth. It is estimated that 4 million Sacred Ibis mummies were deposited in dedicated catacombs throughout Egypt, with approximately 10,000 mummies interred each year. Such massive numbers suggest that ancient Egyptians perhaps kept and reared Ibis on an industrial-scale. However, there is limited evidence in ancient writings that support this suggestion. Sacred Ibis were once prevalent in Egypt but were driven to extinction as early as the mid 1800's. Mummified Sacred Ibis specimens were collected from the main Sacred Ibis catacombs at Saqqara, Tuna el Gebel, Abydos and Thebes, as well as other mummified samples collected from worldwide museums. The aim of this research was to determine if there was evidence that Sacred Ibises were farmed for mummification purposes. If so, is there evidence for the existence of large central farm(s) from which mummies were distributed to the different catacombs by pilgrims? Alternatively, Sacred Ibises may have been reared in smaller enclosures adjacent to each of the main Thoth worshipping temples. Another possibility is that locals and / or priests may have caught wild Sacred Ibises each year from migrating populations? Alternatively, did the mummification industry source Sacred Ibis from a mix of both farmed and wild Sacred Ibises in order to meet the extraordinary demand?
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith School of Environment
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Bair, Daniel Aaron. "The Dirt on the Ancient Maya: Soil Chemical Investigations of Ancient Maya Marketplaces." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2121.

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Various criteria or lines of evidence have been used to identify ancient Maya marketplaces, including location near trade routes, artifactual evidence of trade, open space adjacent to transportation routes, proximity to public structures, low platforms and rock alignments to denote market spaces, and regular patterns in soil and floor chemical concentrations. Seibal and Mayapán were important economic Maya polities controlling the trade routes at the apex of their civilizations. The objectives of these studies were to apply geochemical and geospatial analyses of the soils and floors from public plazas and household patios, to discover the anthropogenic chemical residues of phosphorus (P) and heavy metals associated with the trade of foodstuffs and workshop items that may have been marketed there. Public access, causeways, reservoirs and a pattern of high P and metal concentrations are consistent with marketing of organic foodstuffs and workshop items within suspected marketplaces of each site. In contrast, geochemical patterns of the soils and floors of household structures are consistent with ceremonial and household activities.

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Wilds, Kazumi. "Artists' book / the Kojiki or records of ancient matters, -the story of ancient Japan-." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6339.

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Fita, López Josep Lluis. "Temporal evolution of ancient buildings." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668980.

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Nowadays, the improvement in Computer Graphics has benefited fields such as Cultural Heritage, where the main efforts have focused on the digital preservation of historic buildings or urban structures. In this thesis, we have developed a technique to procedurally model ancient stone buildings combined with structural simulation and we have demonstrated its viability based on non-specialized tools designed for cultural heritage users. On the other hand, some historical events involving natural phenomena, such as earthquakes, determined the evolution of the city urban infrastructure. In this thesis, we present a low-cost tool that allows the reproduction of an earthquake on old stone buildings. Furthermore, in this thesis, we have also designed a virtual reality pipeline compatible with low-cost smart-phones that allows the recreation of historical events
Avui dia, les millores en Gràfics per Computador ha beneficiat camps com el Patrimoni Cultural, on els esforços principals s’han centrat en la preservació digital d’edificis històrics o estructures urbanes. En aquesta tesi hem desenvolupat una tècnica per modelar de manera procedural edificis antics, combinant-la amb simulació estructural, i hem demostrat la seva viabilitat basada en eines no especialitzades dissenyades per a usuaris de patrimoni cultural. D’altra banda, alguns esdeveniments històrics relacionats amb fenòmens naturals, com terratrèmols, van determinar l’evolució urbana d’una ciutat. En aquesta tesi presentem una eina de baix cost que permet la reproducció d’un terratrèmol en edificis antics. A més a més, en aquesta tesi hem dissenyat un sistema de realitat virtual adequat i compatible amb telèfons intel·ligents de baix cost que permet la recreació d’esdeveniments històrics

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Blasband, Darius. "Automatic analysis of ancient languages." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211815.

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Hughes, Dennis D. "Human sacrifice in ancient Greece /." London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2000. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0648/90046761-d.html.

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Wood, John. "Hegel's Critique of Ancient Skepticism." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/113.

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Recent work on the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel has emphasized his interest in skeptical concerns. These contemporary scholars argue that, despite common opinions to the contrary, Hegel actually had a very keen interest in skepticism, one that informed and motivated much of his overall project. While I welcome this recent literature, I argue here that contemporary scholars have overemphasized the importance of skepticism for Hegel. By looking closely at Hegel’s arguments against skepticism in the Phenomenology of Spirit, I argue that Hegel’s anti-skeptical arguments are in fact major failures. Hegel’s failure is at odds with the emphasis that contemporary literature places on Hegel’s interests in skepticism. For a philosopher who was supposedly centrally concerned with skeptical issues, Hegel sure does not act like it. I conclude that the tension here is the result of contemporary scholars’ overemphasis of the role that skepticism plays in Hegel’s project.

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Probert, Philomen. "Studies in ancient Greek accentuation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367429.

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O'Donoghue, Kerry. "Chemical analysis of ancient DNA." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488296.

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Ivanova, Maria. "Milk : in ancient Egyptian religion." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-223600.

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Lowell, Jessica. "Dental disease in ancient Egypt." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1287.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.
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Plant, Irene Elizabeth. "Ancient drama : stagecraft and signcraft." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/ancient-drama--stagecraft-and-signcraft(d99beb86-ebb2-4f7d-8f0d-10f923015ec9).html.

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Evison, Martin Paul. "Ancient HLA : a preliminary investigation." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245563.

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Wheat, Elizabeth Ruth Josie. "Terrestrial cartography in ancient Mesopotamia." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4350/.

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Over one hundred and seventy maps and plans are preserved from the ancient Near East, drawn on clay tablets or inscribed in stone, though a full study of all the available cartographic material from Mesopotamia has never before been undertaken. This thesis offers a critical analysis of these maps and plans, with particular focus on their graphic conventions, typology and function in Near Eastern society. The text on many of these maps is also undeciphered and a number of examples are translated here for the first time, including an unpublished map of an irrigation network in the Schøyen Collection. By examining all this material in a single study, it becomes clear that there was a coherent documentary genre in Mesopotamia which was cartographic in nature, and which served a variety of administrative and planning purposes. The Near Eastern cartographic corpus is also contextualised within the wider history of cartography, so that its place in the global development of graphic mapping can be better understood.

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Weber, Felicitas. "The Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201806.

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“The Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: Second Millennium BCE” was intended and funded as a three-year project (2013-2016) to explore the world of Ancient Egyptian demons in the 2nd millennium BC. It intends to create a classification and ontology of benevolent and malevolent demons. Whereas ancient Egyptians did not use a specific term denoting “demons”, liminal beings known from various other cultures such as δαίμονες, ghosts, angels, Mischwesen, genies, etc., were nevertheless described in texts and illustrations. The project aims to collect philological, iconographical and archaeological evidence to understand the religious beliefs, practices, interactions and knowledge not only of the ancient Egyptians’ daily life but also their perception of the afterlife. Till today scholars, as well as interested laymen, have had no resource to consult for specific examples of those beings, except for rather general encyclopaedias that include all kinds of divine beings or the Iconography of Deities and Demons (IDD) project that is ongoing. Neither provides, however, a searchable platform for both texts and images. The database created by the Demonology Project: 2K is designed to remedy this gap. The idea is to provide scholars and the public with a database that allows statistical analyses and innovative data visualisation, accessible and augmentable from all over the world to stimulate the dialogue and open communication not only within Egyptology but also with neighbouring disciplines. For the time-span of the three year project a pilot database was planned as a foundation for further data-collection and analysis. The data that were chosen date to the 2nd Millennium BCE and originate from objects of daily life (headrests and ivory wands), as well as from objects related to the afterlife, (coffins and ‘Book of the Dead’ manuscripts). This material, connected by its religious purposes, nevertheless provides a cross-section through ancient Egyptian religious practice. The project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust and includes Kasia Szpakowska (director) who supervises the work of the two participating PhD students in Egyptology. The project does not include funds for computer scientists or specialists in digital humanities. Therefore, the database is designed, developed and input by the members of the team only. The focus of my presentation will be the structure of the database that faces the challenge to include both textual and iconographical evidence. I will explain the organisation of the data, search patterns and the opportunities of their visualisation and possible research outcome. Furthermore, I will discuss the potentials the database already possesses and might generate in the future for scholars and the public likewise. Since the evidence belongs to numerous collections from all over the world, I would like to address the problems of intellectual property and copyright with the solution we pursue for releasing the database for registered usage onto the internet.

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Connelly, Janet Hosier. "Horseshoe Crabs-Ancient Alien Protectors." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10118697.

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Ancient Alien Protectors is an exhibition that tells the story of the wonders and benefits of horseshoe crabs. What are they and why should anyone care about them? Researching the topic revealed that more often than not an inhabitant of the Western Shore or any of the landlocked geographical locations in the United States has limited knowledge about horseshoe crabs. Their kind has inhabited our Earth for over 475 million years. They have outlasted over ninety-nine percent of all the species that ever swam or walked on the planet but are now in peril due to human activity. They have been harvested for farmers to make fertilizer for crops, chopped up as bait for fishermen, and captured and bled by biomedical companies. Their copper-based blue blood is used to produce a life-saving product that is hypersensitive to bacteria. The injectable drugs and medical devices that come in contact with our blood must be tested for the presence of toxins, horseshoe crabs have now become an invaluable commodity to modern medicine.

Horseshoe crab eggs are a food source for many crustaceans and fishes. Their eggs are an integral part of the diet of many shorebirds, allowing them to refuel and gain weight before continuing their journey northward to the Arctic. Disappearance of the horseshoe crab from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean would be a critical blow to the life-sustaining connection between members of local ecosystems.

The goal of this research is to create an exhibition that sparks an awareness about how we are an intrinsic part of the natural world. The exhibition is designed so that visitors will have an opportunity to enter a museum located in the Delaware Bay region, the natural setting where the largest population of horseshoe crabs are born, grow to maturity, and reproduce. Visitors can immerse themselves in an environment that will stimulate their senses as well as their mind and leave inspired to engage in the conservation and protection of this resilient species. The proposed site will also house a research facility collocated with the museum to foster cooperation and knowledge sharing among scientists. A partnership between the conservation and medical communities would strengthen the commitment to finding better ways to strategically manage and preserve this precious living resource.

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MacLachlan, Rosalind Frances. "Epitomes in ancient literary culture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284061.

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Mustonen, J. (Janne). "Ancient Aliens -televisiosarjasta välittyvät arkeologikuvat." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201706302706.

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Tämä tutkielma käsittelee Ancient Aliens -televisiosarjasta välittyviä arkeologikuvia. Kyseisessä televisiosarjassa pyritään todistelemaan muinaisastronauttiteoriaa, jonka mukaan maapallolla on vieraillut älyllisiä olentoja maapallon ulkopuolelta ja, jotka ovat vaikuttaneet ihmislajin kehitykseen. Ancient Aliens -televisiosarja on osa pseudoarkeologian kirjoa. Pseudoarkeologialla tarkoitetaan näennäisarkeologiaa, jolle tyypillistä on tieteen kriteerien laiminlyönti sekä vihamielinen asenne akateemista arkeologiaa kohtaan. Tutkielman tarkoitus on täten lisätä tietämystä pseudoarkeologiasta ja sen vaikutuksista arkeologien imagoon. Tutkielman aineisto koostuu Ancient Aliens -sarjan jaksoista, joista olen suorittanut ositetun otannan. Ohjelman välittämiä arkeologikuvia hahmotetaan ohjelmassa esiintyvien arkeologien puheiden sekä muun muassa heidän visuaalisen ulosantinsa kautta. Myös sarjassa esiintyvä arkeologeja koskeva verbaalinen viestintä on huomion keskiössä. Tutkielmassa käydään läpi myös Ancient Aliens -televisiosarjasta välittyvien arkeologikuvien ajalliset muutokset. Lopuksi tutkielman aineistosta havaittuja arkeologikuvia verrataan aiemmissa tutkimuksissa havaittuihin arkeologikuviin. Keskeisenä tutkimusmenetelmänä tutkielmassa on sisällönanalyysi, jonka avulla laajasta aineistosta tehdyt havainnot on luokiteltu ylä- ja alaluokkiin. Tutkielma antoi monenlaisia tutkimustuloksia. Arkeologit esitettiin pätevinä menneisyyden selittäjinä, mutta myös epäpätevinä työhönsä. He näkyivät myös homogeenisena ryhmänä, joita sävytti mm. seikkailija- ja etsijästereotypiat ja heidän keskeisiä tutkimuskohteitaan olivat kaukaiset ja ajanlaskun alkua edeltävät kohteet. Myös koloniaalista luonnetta esiintyi. Arkeologit olivat harvemmin tekemisissä teknisten laitteiden tai ajanlaskun jälkeisten kohteiden kanssa. Sarjan arkeologit olivat usein keski-ikäisiä ja pukeutuivat keskiluokkaisesti. Huippukausi arkeologeja koskevassa retoriikassa ajoittui sarjan puoliväliin 2013 vuodelle. Arkeologeja koskeva retoriikka näyttäisi kuitenkin olevan lievässä nousussa 2016 vuodelle tullessa. Yhtäläisyyksiä tutkielmassa sekä aiemmassa tutkimuksessa havaittujen arkeologikuvien välillä on arkeologien koloniaalisen luonteen, sekä etsijä ja seikkailija-assosiaatioiden välillä. Eroavaisuuksia sen sijaan ilmeni muun muassa siinä, ovatko arkeologikuvat muuttumassa sukupuolisesti tasa-arvoisempaan suuntaan. Tutkielman perusteella harva Ancient Aliens -sarjan arkeologikuvista oli realistisia, saati ongelmattomia. Toisaalta myös positiivisia representaatioita ilmeni — silloin kun se pseudoarkeologeille oli hyödyllistä. Arkeologien esittäminen ohjelmassa oli siis hyvin valikoivaa ja myös eri arkeologeja arvottavaa. Arkeologien tulisi suhtautua Ancient Aliens -sarjaan vakavuudella, sillä ohjelmaa katsoo noin 1–2 miljoonaa ihmistä per jakso, mikä tarkoittaa, että ohjelman kautta kyetään välittämään arkeologeja koskevia viestejä laajalle kuulijajoukolle. Ohjelma on myös jatkunut jo 11:n tuotantokauden verran, eikä loppua ole toistaiseksi näkyvissä. Toisaalta arkeologia on keskiössä ohjelmassa, jolloin arkeologia tieteenä saa osakseen mainostusta ja voi täten saada ihmiset kiinnostumaan tieteenalasta ja motivoitumaan etsimään siitä lisää tietoa. Parempi vaihtoehto voisi kuitenkin olla pyrkiä vastustamaan Ancient Aliens -sarjan arkeologikuvia. Tämä voisi onnistua arkeologian tehokkaammalla popularisoinnilla, sekä mediakriittisyyden lisäämisellä ihmisten keskuudessa
This thesis handles the images of archaeologists from Ancient Aliens -television series. In this television programme, ancient astronaut -theory is attempted to be proven. Ancient astronaut -theory claims that Earth have received intelligent visitors from outer space which had influenced mankind’s history. Ancient Aliens -series is a part of pseudoarchaeology which often neglects scientific criteria and holds hostile attitude towards academic archaeology. This thesis attempts to add knowledge about pseudoarchaeology and its impacts to the image of archaeologists. Research material consists of episodes of Ancient Aliens -series. Images of the archaeologists are perceived through the speeches and appearances of the archaeologists. Also, the verbal communication that handles archaeologists is in focus. This thesis also handles the secular changes of representation of archaeologists in Ancient Aliens -programme. Lastly the results are compared with earlier research of images of the archaeologists. The main research method in this thesis is content analysis. This thesis gave many kinds of results. Archaeologists were portrayed as qualified but also incompetent researchers of the past. They were portrayed as a homogenic group with adventurer and searcher stereotypes. Their main research targets were pre-calendar and exotic sites. Colonial image wasn’t also untypical. More seldom archaeologists were working with technological devices. Archaeologists of Ancient Aliens -programme were often middle-aged and were dressed in blouse. Top season of representation of archaeologists was around year 2013. However, rhetoric that handles archaeologists seems to be in slight increase in most recent seasons. There were much similarities with earlier researcher. Both stated that archaeologists were represented as a colonialists and searcher-adventurer associations were typical. Differences appeared whether the image of the archaeologists is changing into sexually more equal. Research results claim that few of the archaeologist images were realistic nor problem-free. However, the positive representations also occurred — when it was beneficial to pseudoarchaeologists. In this sense, representation of archaeologists was selective and archaeologists were evaluated. Archaeologists should be concerned about Ancient Aliens -programme. The show is being watched by 1–2 million people per episode which means that through this programme people can send their messages to a large group. The show has also continued long and currently there is no end in sight. However, archaeology is in the centre in this show, which means that archaeology receives advertising which can lead people to gain interest of it. Better alternative could still be trying to resist the show and its representations. This could happen by popularising the archaeology more effectively and by adding the critical thinking among population

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Al-Dayel, Omar A. F. "Characterisation of Ancient Egyptian ceramics." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.710905.

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Gómez, Lobo Alfonso. "Ancient Ethics and Contemporary Ethics." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/112915.

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The aim of this paper is to examine a few doctrines in the history of ancient ethics which can still be considered valuable and even perhaps valid today. Moral motivation for the Stoics and for Socratesis based on self-interest with the further assumption that the moral virtues are the true goods. But the Stoic and Socratic justification strategies are different. Attention is then called to the Protagorean brand ofrelativism underlying contemporary libertarian claims. The paper end swith the suggestion that only a theory of objective human goods can resolve the problem of moral motivation and of the indeterminacy of the harm principie in modern liberalism.
El fin de este trabajo es examinar unas cuantas doctrinas en la historia de la ética antigua que podrían considerarse válidas hoy. La motivación moral para los estoicos y para Sócrates se basa en el auto-interés, con la presuposición ulterior de que las virtudes morales son los verdaderos bienes. Pero las estrategias de justificación estoica y socrática son diferentes. Luego se llama la atención sobre el tipo protagónico de relativismo que subyace a las pretensiones liberales contemporáneas. El artículo termina sugiriendo que sólo una teoría de los bienes objetivos humanos puede resolver el problema de la motivación moral y de la indeterminación del principio del daño en el liberalismo moderno.

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Теліженко, Людмила Вікторівна, Людмила Викторовна Телиженко, and Liudmyla Viktorivna Telizhenko. "Human integrity in ancient civilizations." Thesis, Lulu Press, 2018. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/70611.

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На культурологічному матеріалі проводиться антропологічний аналіз становлення та розвитку цілісності людини древніх цивілізацій. У роботі цілісність древньої людини аналізується як нерозривна єдність людини і її умов, які разом перебувають у спільній для них субстанційній основі.
На культурологическом материале проводится антропологический анализ становления и развития целостности человека древних цивилизаций. В работе целостность древнего человека анализируется как неразрывное единство человека и его условий, которые вместе пребывают в общем для них субстанциональном основании.
An anthropological analysis of formation and development of human integrity in ancient civilizations is performed basing on culturological data. The paper analyzes the integrity of the ancient person as an inseverable unity of the person and their circumstances, that are in the common for both of them substantive basis.

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Башлак, Ірина Анатоліївна, Ирина Анатольевна Башлак, Iryna Anatoliivna Bashlak, and O. Voronova. "Advanced technology in ancient Egypt." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2011. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13498.

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Moya, Cortazar Sheila, Michael Ottman, Amanda McDaniels, Cereceres Andrea Aragon, and Nobuko Hongu. "Ancient Rediscovering Food: Grain Amaranth." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625290.

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Grain amaranth was a dietary staple for Central American Indians before Columbus arrived in the New World.1 Today, in Mexico, amaranth is popped like popcorn and mixed with sugar or honey to make a popular sweet treat, called “Alegría” which is the Spanish word for joy (Figure 1). Amaranth is a nutritious grain, similar to chia seeds2 and quinoa, providing high amount of plant protein, fiber, iron, and calcium. This article can help you learn more about amaranth, and show you how to incorporate them into your balanced diet.

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Sloane, J. P. "Modern psychology, ancient gnosticism repackaged." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p091-0052.

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