 | The Burial of Nefertiti? (2015) by Nicholas Reeves | Bookmarked by Miroslav Barta |
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 | Contending with Illness in ancient Egypt: A textual and osteological study of health care at Dir el-Medina by Anne Austin | Bookmarked by Kasia Szpakowska Archaeologists primarily address disease, illness, and health through biological studies of human remains. These studies convey physical suffering in the past, but without broader social context, they do not document how culture responds to illness. As a result, we lack explanations for the relationship between physiological health and social health care. To resolve this problem, it is necessary to develop a model for an archaeological investigation of health care that incorporates both biological and social factors to analyze not only how individuals died, but also what factors helped them... |
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 | The Household Religion in ancient Egypt: What do the archaeological evidences tell us? by Susana Mota | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris "The study of the Household Religion in Ancient Egypt is based on tex-tual and material sources, though the greatest contribution comes from these latter. However, to the relevance of these sources is added a large number of difficulties that must be overcome in order to maximize the information available. To illustrate these difficulties and simultaneously the contribution of the archaeological sources, this article presents to concrete examples; The Box Beds and the clay figurines. Through these cases it is possible to real-ize the interpretation difficulties when dealing with material... |
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 | Wage Accounting in Deir el-Medina (by Richard Mandeville) by Richard Mandeville and Benedict Davies | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris By investigating the documentary evidence from the royal workmen's community at Thebes, Wage Accounting in Deir el-Medina provides a comprehensive overview of the processes by which the state paid its employees their monthly grain rations. The present study analyses seasonal fluctuations in the delivery schedule, the frequency of payments, the classes of workmen found listed in the ration texts, and the amounts of grain that they individually received. That so much of the pertinent material can be dated so precisely has proven invaluable to the establishment of patterns and failures within... |
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| | Des scènes de danse dans l'iconographie prédynastique? Essai d'identification et d'interprétation à la lumière de la documentation pharaonique by Aurélie Roche | Bookmarked by Kasia Szpakowska |
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 | Prestige, function, and performance. Ramesside High Priests of Memphis by Christine Raedler | Bookmarked by Miroslav Barta |
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 | The social life of pre-sunrise things by Yannis Hamilakis | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Centuries before the creation of archaeology as a scientific discipline in the modern West, indigenous people in Mesoamerica developed their own interpretations for the physical remains of their past. This study draws on archaeological, ethnographic, and historical sources to explore a tradition of indigenous Mesoamerican archaeology. By resorting to the culturearea concept of Mesoamerica, an interpretive structure of the long term is outlined. |
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 | Settlement and Landscape Archaeology (2001). This paper is updated in 2015 International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 21. by Gary Feinman | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris |
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 | The Middle Kingdom Egyptian Pottery from Middle Bronze Age IIa Tel Ifshar by Ezra Marcus | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris |
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 | Offence and Reconciliation in Ancient Egypt - A Study in Late Ramesside Letter no. 46 by Deborah Sweeney | Bookmarked by Mariam Ayad This article is a detailed philological study of Late Ramesside Letter no. 46. It was written under the auspices of a German-Israeli Foundation project in the mid-1990s on Sin, Punishment and Forgiveness in Ancient Egypt, and analyses the relationships between the correspondents in terms of Jeffrie G. Murphy's and Jean Hampton's work on forgiveness and mercy. This letter includes an ancient Egyptian joke. The sender of this letter seems to have had a weakness for telling jokes, which has landed him in trouble with his correspondent. He now tells this particular joke to try and excuse... |
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