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Aridification leading to crop failure has recently been hypothesized to explain the collapse of the Akkadian Empire in ancient Mesopotamia (∼2300 and 2200 B.C.). Phytoliths from the dental calculus of 17 human skeletons excavated from Tell Leian in northern Syria were investigat…

This thesis examines the market growth of Western American bronze sculpture over the course of 124 years (1895-2019), from Frederic Remington’s Bronco Buster until now. The genre of Western American art is a highly marginalized genre that has received limited study, and the mark…

This thesis is concerned with approaches to identity in archaeology, specifically the later prehistory of East Yorkshire, during the first millennium B. C. The region is characterised by a middle-late Iron Age square barrow burial rite, which has been interpreted as the product …