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A Female Court Historian Inside A Neo-Fatimid Treasury Of Books, Walid Ghali

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In the field of manuscript studies, each manuscript is a unique object, and every folio has a story that can be told! A narrative can be deciphered from the scribe’s handwritten notes or corrections to the author’s signature and ownership statements. Reading the Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books, you will feel immersed in an esoteric journey inside the manuscript library of the Alawi Bohra community, one of the remaining reserves of Arabic manuscripts on Ismailism. In this book, Akerman plays a significant role in an interwoven story of a small Muslim community from Gujarat and their living tradition of book repositories. …

Finding A Revolutionary War Skirmish Site: Lower Bridge, Steven D. Smith

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New And Improved Equipment For The Maritime Research Division, William Nassif, James D. Spirek

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Forensic Evidence Suggests Paleo-Americans Hunted Mastodons, Mammoths And Other Megafauna In Eastern North America 13,000 Years Ago, Christopher R. Moore

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Update On The Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey 2022-2023, Joseph A. Linder Jr, Albert C. Goodyear, Christopher R. Moore, Anna Muller, Daniel Holt

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Reuniting People, Place, And Associated Historic Documents Through The Reconstruction Of An Acquisition Tract (1767-1952), Heather R. Amaral

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Arms And Armor From Santa Elena: A Photographic Inventory, Heathley A. Johnson

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The Camden Burial Project, Part Ii: Triumph And Defeat, James B. Legg

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Grassroots Familialism? Ngo Mobilization And Neoconservatism In Contemporary Turkey, Sevgi Adak

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Familialism in contemporary Turkey has primarily been analysed as a crucial aspect of the social policy of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP) government. The incorporation of familialism into other policy areas has also received some attention. Less attention has been given, however, to the ‘civil’ channels through which this state-level familialism is supported and propagated. A network of family-oriented conservative NGOs has proliferated in the last decade, and this article looks at the campaigns they organize and the discourses they use to influence and foster familialism at the state level. Drawing on an analysis …

Studying Hadith Commentaries In The Digital Age, Aslisho Qurboniev, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Maroussia Bednarkiewicz

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In this essay we reflect on the challenges involved in corpus building for hadith studies as well as the advances already made. We specifically focus on the Open Islamicate texts Initiative (OpenItI), a large, academically curated corpus of arabic texts sourced from various online libraries. this corpus is continuously vetted and expanded by scholarly contributions. We discuss its advantages for computational macro-analysis and for more traditional close reading, and survey recent research in digital hadith studies as an example of the possibilities of computational macro-analysis, we focus on assessing the output of the software ‘passim’, which has identified millions of …

Revisiting Feminist Historiography On Women's Activism In Turkey: Beyond The Grand Narrative Of Waves, Sevgi Adak, Selin Cagatay

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Recent contributions in feminist historiography challenge the reading of women's movements through the waves metaphor and destabilise rigid periodisations. These contributions have triggered debates about the way feminism and women's activism are analysed in the West, but their implications for feminist historiography in non-Western contexts have yet to be discussed. New studies, including our own, on Kemalist and socialist women's activisms suggest that the agendas affiliated with the post-1980 ‘second wave’ of feminism in Turkey had been raised prior to the 1980s. These findings call for critical engagement with the long-established idea that there have been two waves of women's …

Numismatic History Of The Charlesfort/Santa Elena Site: The Sixteenth-Century Spanish Occupation, Heathley A. Johnson

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The Camden Burial Project, Part I: Background And Preliminary Results, James B. Legg

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Guam 2022: Shipwreck Survey In Apra Harbor, Will Nassif

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A Search Renewed: Continuing Survey Efforts To Locate Lucas Vazquez De Ayllon's Lost Capitana, Amber Cabading

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The South Carolina Paleoindian Point Survey On The Occasion Of The Recording Of The 800th Point, Albert C. Goodyear, Christopher R. Moore, Joe Wilkinson, Joseph A. Lindler Jr

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The Search For Stuarts Town (1684-1686), Chester B. Depratter

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Querying The Past: Automatic Source Attribution With Language Models, Ryan Muther, Mathew Barber, David Smith

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This paper explores new methods for locating the sources used to write a text by 昀椀ne-tuning a variety of language models to rerank candidate sources. These methods promise to shed new light on traditions with complex citational practices, such as in medieval Arabic where citations are ambiguous and boundaries of quotation are poorly defined. After retrieving candidates sources using a baseline BM25 retrieval model, a variety of reranking methods are tested to see how effective they are at the task of source attribution. We conduct experiments on two datasets—English Wikipedia and medieval Arabic historical writing—and employ a variety of retrieval- …

The Left In Turkey: Survival And Resistance Under Authoritarianism, Sevgi Adak

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Indigenous American Fishing Traditions At The First Spanish Capital Of La Florida: Santa Elena (1566–1587 Ce), South Carolina, Usa, Elizabeth J. Reitz, Chester B. Depratter

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Few studies of post-Columbian animal economies in the Americas elaborate on the influence of traditional Indigenous knowledge on colonial economies. A vertebrate collection from Santa Elena (1566–87 CE, South Carolina, USA), the original Spanish capital of La Florida, offers the opportunity to examine that influence at the first European-sponsored capital north of Mexico. Santa Elena’s animal economy was the product of dynamic interactions among multiple actors, merging preexisting traditional Indigenous practices, particularly traditional fishing practices, with Eurasian animal husbandry to produce a new cultural form. A suite of wild vertebrates long used by Indigenous Americans living on the southeastern …

Chain As A Missing Artifact: Enslavement And Restraint On The Hernando De Soto Expedition, Chester B. Depratter, James B. Legg

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The passage of the Hernando de Soto expedition (1539-1543) though the southeastern United States resulted in a scatter of artifacts distributed along the route. These materials were gifted or traded to, or taken by Native Ameri­cans, or were simply lost as Soto and his company moved from place to place. Perishable items such as clothing, fabrics, and wooden objects disappeared long ago. Non-perishable items such as weaponry, chainmail, coins, nails, bells, and a wide array of other metal objects have been recovered by both avocational and professional archae­ologists at scattered sites along the route. One class of non-perishable artifact associated …

The "Indian Fileds" Of The Mackay Point Plantation, Hannah Hoover

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Uss Boston Collection: Curation And Photogrammetric Documentation, Athena Van Overschelde, Will Nassif

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The Search For Stuarts Town, Chester B. Depratter

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Treadway: An Early 19th Century Meeting House In The South Carolina Backcountry, Brian Milner, Keith Stephenson

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Demonstrating Occupational Transitions On The Lower Savannah River Drainage Through Private Collections In South Carolina, Joseph Lindler Jr, Albert C. Goodyear, Christopher R. Moore, Brian Banks, Haley Borowy, Reece Spradley, Anna Mueller

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Bakner And Coste Faculty-Student Summer Collaborative Research Grant: Grant Activities Evaluation Post Grant, Sarah Coste

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Concise Abstract of the Results of the Work. Our research attempted to understand mechanisms underlying alcohol use and factors that may contribute to alcohol use disorder (AUD). More specifically, the present series of experiments, phases 1 through 4, expand on rodent models research to study binge-like ethanol consumption using the “Drinking In the Dark” (DID) procedure (see Thiele &Navarro, 2014 for a review). In DID, ethanol (EtOH) is provided in the home cage for 3 hours, beginning 3 hours after the start of the dark phase of the light:dark cycle when nocturnal rodents are most active (adapted from Rhodes et …

The Mica House Revisited, John Dodge, Adam King

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Spanish Halberds In South Carolina?, Chester B. Depratter

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Maritime Research Division: A Year Of Fieldwork In Review, James D. Spirek

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