Late in January of this year, the Milwaukee Public Museum inaugurated its own exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls with an interesting nuance: the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue would have as their concern not only the Scrolls themselves, but also Biblical writings as such plus ancient archaeological artifacts, the full title of the exhibit and its accompanying catalogue being Dead Sea Sc...

Although glass is usually considered as a very stable archaeological material, it can undergo severe degradation. Soda-lime glass, the most common glass throughout ancient times, is particularly sensitive to this problem. The glass surface absorbs moisture from its environment and the contact with CO2 causes Na2O and NaOH to convert to Na2CO3, which is extremely hygroscopic. The subsequent unst...

we can recognize ancient environmental, political, economic and cultural conditions with study old textiles. textile objects are important cases for archaeological investigations at the museums. professor mohsen moghadam has collected unique textile collection belonged to parthian, sassanid, early islamic, middle islamic, safavid, qajar and pahlavi periods and a few foreign textiles for example...

Human-animal interactions have played crucial roles in the development of complex societies across the globe. This study examines the human-leporid (cottontail and jackrabbit) relationship at the pre-Hispanic (AD 1-550) city of Teotihuacan in the Basin of Mexico and tests the hypothesis that leporids were managed or bred for food and secondary products within the urban core. We use stable isoto...

Smoking pipes discovered in archaeological contexts demonstrate that Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest North America have practiced smoking for over 4,500 years. Archaeometry and ancient residue metabolomics provide evidence association particular plants with these artifacts. In this article, we synthesize recent research on present current knowledge spatiotemporal distribution past. ...

Paleoparasitological research has made important contributions to the understanding of parasite evolution and ecology. Although parasitic protozoa exhibit a worldwide distribution, recovering these organisms from an archaeological context is still exceptional and relies on the availability and distribution of evidence, the ecology of infectious diseases and adequate detection techniques. Here, ...

With broad lines and dark shading, the cartographic depictions of ancient states and empires convey the impression of comprehensive political entities having firm boundaries and uniform territorial control. These depictions oversimplify the complexities of early state growth, as well as overstating the capacity of central governments to control large territories. Archaeological and textual evid...

The Kashmiri population is an ethno-linguistic group that resides in the Kashmir Valley in northern India. A longstanding hypothesis is that this population derives ancestry from Jewish and/or Greek sources. There is historical and archaeological evidence of ancient Greek presence in India and Kashmir. Further, some historical accounts suggest ancient Hebrew ancestry as well. To date, it has no...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to better understand the triggers of suicide, particularly among the ancient Greek and Persian soldiers and commanders. METHOD 'Herodotus:TheHistories' is a history of the rulers and soldiery who participated in the Greco-Persian wars (492-449 BCE). A new translation (2013) of this manuscript was studied. Accounts of suicide were collected and collated, wit...

J.A. Radosevich (ed.), Head & Neck Cancer: Current Perspectives, Advances, and Challenges, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5827-8_2, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Abstract There has been a long-running debate in anthropological, archaeological, and medical literature regarding the prevalence of cancer in various ancient human populations. At one extreme, some scholars have claimed tha...