Archaeometallurgical analysis of the bow drill from the fifth century BC Ma‘agan Mikhael shipwreck
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DOI: 10.1007/s12520-018-0683-x
Abstract: Three bow drills were discovered in the 400 BC Ma‘agan Mikhael ship. Radiography revealed a square cross-section recess for the bit in the wooden stock of one of the drills. Metal particles, remains of a bit,… read more here.
Keywords: agan mikhael; microscopy; bit; analysis ... See more keywords
Review of N. Arrington, Ashes, Images, and Memories: The Presence of the war Dead in Fifth-Century Athens
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DOI: 10.1017/s0959774316000743
Abstract: The demosion sema in Athens has received a great deal of attention in recent years although a comprehensive study has been lacking. Arrington’s self-assured study of the demosion sema, which originated as the author’s doctoral… read more here.
Keywords: fifth century; war dead; war; arrington ... See more keywords
Archaeological Evidence for Persian Elites in the Fifth Century B.C.
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DOI: 10.1163/1573384x-20200403
Abstract: An analysis of a group of the administrative texts from the Persepolis Fortification Archive gives the impression that the Fahliyān region in northwestern Fārs was probably the heart of the territory in which the Patischorian… read more here.
Keywords: evidence persian; fifth century; evidence; elites fifth ... See more keywords
Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD
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DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2019.60
Abstract: Abstract It is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a… read more here.
Keywords: fifth century; saxon burial; anglo saxon; memories migration ... See more keywords