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Game board rock carvings in Hong Kong and Macao: reexamining their significance and dating
The present study is divided in two parts: first, it offers a description of the game boards unearthed in Hong Kong and Macao, outlining the...
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic lead to an infra-state of exception: Turkey’s responses and dismantling its medico-scientific policies
The new coronavirus strain that spread across the globe in clusters and claimed millions of lives has significantly impacted how subjectivity and...
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Ceramics of Wei, ** and Southern and Northern Dynasties
At the close of the Han DynastyHan Dynasty, The”, internal fights for the throne and the power struggle between relatives of the royal familyRoyal...
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The Territory of Ancient Tipasa, Algeria: Archaeological Survey, Material Culture, and Connectivity in Central Maghreb
The territory of Tipasa, an iconic UNESCO landscape that comprises the ancient city of Mauretania and its Royal Mausoleum, has never been...
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Merenptah and Amenmesse – Egyptian Rumors Concerning the Exodus
The hypothesis at the core of this paper was published in a much larger work by the author in JEgH 12 2019. Due to its focus on Egyptological...
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Precolonial Public Spaces of Urban North-West Africa
This chapter deals with Morocco’s pre-colonial history and the form of settlements in this period. The introduction summarizes relations with other...
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Islands without Iron. Strategies for Manufacturing Prehistoric Rotary Querns without Metal Tools in the Canary Islands: Working Hypotheses and Experimentation
The introduction of the rotary quern into the Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age represents a great technological innovation with regard to...
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Islam, Plato and Protestantism: Gellner in North Africa
Ernest Gellner made a valuable contribution to the study of North African Islam of the colonial period. He perceived that urban Islam expressed by a...
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“A normal and useful method of class control?” Policy on Corporal Punishment in Irish Schools: c1974–1985
Even if we consider only the culture or civilisation we habitually call western European—that which emerged from the collision of Athens and...
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Between Cereal Agriculture and Animal Husbandry: Millet in the Early Economy of the North Pontic Region
Broomcorn millet ( Panicum miliaceum L.) was first domesticated in China and dispersed westward via Central Asia in the 3rd millennium BC, reaching...
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Water Security and the Public Trust Doctrine in South Africa
This chapter provides broad insights into how different levels of government have attempted to advance water security in South Africa. It does this...
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Architectural Traditions of Pre-Romanesque Central Plan Churches in Bohemia Within Central European Context
In general, Pre-Romanesque churches in Central Europe reflect the exchange of knowledge about, and conversion to, the Christian faith, as well as...
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The Study of European Migration in Asia-Pacific During the Early Modern Period: San Salvador de Isla Hermosa (Keelung, Taiwan)
The paper is an introduction to the study of European migration into Asia-Pacific through the case study of northern Taiwan. Here, several Spanish...
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Scientificity before Scientism: The Invention of Cultural Research in German Studies of Antiquity 1800–1850
This paper examines how scholars of Greek and Roman antiquity in the German-speaking territories in the first half of the nineteenth century define...
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King Death: The Origins and Identity of Guatemalan and Mexican Skeleton Saint, Rey Pascual
This article delves into the intriguing origins and identity of the folk saint Rey Pascual, a syncretic figure venerated in Guatemala and Mexico. Rey...
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Aristocratic Honours
The transformation of a medieval nobility into a landed aristocracy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is examined. It is shown that...
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An Immunity to Authoritarianism? Bagehot, Bryce, and Ostrogorski on the Risk of Caesarism in America
This paper considers the early lineage of assumptions, current in both the public sphere and the academy, that the United States was safe from...
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Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Gender and Identity in a Danish Viking Age Hoard Horizon
The Lille Karleby hoard is the fifth known drinking vessel hoard from the mid-AD 900s. This paper highlights equipment in this and other hoards...
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The Hall-Colley Debate: a Stop on the Road to the 1619 Project
The publication of the 1619 Project in 2019 by the New York Times Magazine has proved to be a discursive pivot for historiographic debate over the...