Journal Articles (History and Classics)
Items in this Collection
- 13Harvey, Craig A.
- 8Dominik Wujastyk
- 7Wujastyk, Dominik
- 6Reeves, M. Barbara
- 1Agathe Keller
- 1Clemency Montelle
- 10Roman Arabia
- 8Humayma
- 7Roman provinces
- 6Archaeology of Jordan
- 4Ceramic building materials
- 4Hypocaust
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From Balkh to Baghdad: Indian science and the birth of the Islamic golden age in the eighth century
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The late first-century BCE caravan route from Antioch on the Mediterranean to Kandahar in modern Afghanistan provided opportunities for the exchange of medical knowledge between north India and the Parthian and Mediterranean worlds. Sanskrit literature provides evidence for the existence of...
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From the Ground to the Air to the Computer: Re-conceptualizing the Site Plan for the Archaeological Site of Humayma
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Reeves, M. Barbara, Harvey, Craig A.
In 2022, Al Humaymah Excavation Project began creating a new site plan to contextualize better past archaeological work at Al Humaymah and to show the siteʼs potential for future work. This preliminary report presents an introduction to the site and our methodology for creating the new site plan.
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2003
British colonial power decisively established itself on the Indian subcontinent between 1770 and 1830. This period and the century following it have become the subjects of much creative and insightful research on medical history: the use of medical institutions and personnel as tools for...
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2011
I attempt to relativize allopathic medicine, or Modern Establishment Medicine (MEM), specifically in the context of the ayurvedic medical system of India, and to promote Daniel Moerman’s concept of the medical “meaning response” as a preferable conceptualization of the phenomena usually subsumed...
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2016
Introduction: This is an exciting time for yoga studies because in the last ten years a number of crucial new discoveries have been made about yoga's history. These have rewritten our understanding of yoga's evolution, both as a philosophy and as a physical practice. The first of these new...
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2021-01-01
Reeves, M. Barbara, Harvey, Craig A.
The 2014 season of the al-Ḥumaymah Excavation Project was devoted to surveying rock-carved graffiti and other human activity areas on Jabal Kalkhah and the sandstone ridges west of al-Ḥumaymah’s Nabataean through early Islamic settlements (Reeves, Harvey and Seymour 2018). In the course of this...
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2009
Book chapter on post-classical Indian traditions of medical debate and argumentation focused on the medical discourse of Viresvara.
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2017-01-01
Reeves, M. Barbara, Harvey, Craig A., Fergusson, Mike, Harden, Sherry, Holman, Lindsay M., MacKinnon, Marla, Shelton, Andi
Ḥumayma, ancient Ḥawara, is the largest Nabataean and Roman period site in the Ḥisma desert of southern Jordan. The Nabataeans, in the first century BC, had founded a town with an impressive water-supply system here on a pre-existing caravan route. Just over a century later, following the...