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The Chuvash, the Kazan Tatars and the Bashkirs are Turkic-speaking peoples which have long inhabited the Volga region in Russia. For centuries, Islam and Orthodox Christianity have coexisted and blended here with folk religiosity and “pagan” beliefs. Delving into this rich cultural landscape, Sun-Eater, Moon-Swallower offers an encyclopaedic collection of narratives about mythical beings recorded among these Volga Turkic peoples. The first section of the book contains almost two hundred...

Since 2018, the Austrian Academy of Sciences has regularly organised a so-called Joint Academy Day together with one or more academies of sciences abroad. [...] The idea of joint academy days is simple: The OeAW, both the so-called learned society as well as its research institutes, aims to intensify contacts and forge bonds with other academies in order to strengthen alliances through lectures, discussions, and personal exchange of ideas on a specific topic. 2023, for the first time, the Joint...

Tilo Felgenhauer untersucht im ersten Beitrag die Verknüpfung von räumlichen und ökonomischen Aspekten am Beispiel des Konsums. Christian Fridrich und Sandra Milz präsentieren das neue Evaluationstool SPEAR zur Bewertung von wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Unterrichtseinheiten. Das Ziel ist eine theoriegestützte, empirisch geprüfte Bewertungsgrundlage für Lehrmaterialien. Dina Vasiljuk und Alexandra Budke fördern in ihrem Beitrag die Kompetenz zum Perspektivenwechsel – eine...

This Reader is the first of its kind. Tracing the evolution of literary modernity across national borders, it brings together texts from three different spheres of Persian Studies. “Literary Modernity in the Persophone Realm” explores theoretical literary discussions as they unfolded in Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia from the early 20th century to the Second World War. The compilation presents contextualized primary sources by writers, poets and critics of the time, including both famous...

This volume focusses on Bronze Age mining in the Balkan regions, presented in the regional and inter-regional context. The archaeological excavations on the Ada Tepe located in the Bulgarian Rhodopes are the point of departure, because not only did they bring to light one of the earliest known gold mines of Europe, but they also uncovered the mining areas, the work places and the adjacent settlement areas almost in their entirety – a singular case regarding gold mining sites of Bronze Age date....

Beethoven, the loner – that is the historiographical image that has long dominated biographies and research on Beethoven. But while this image resonates with the enduring impression of the artistic genius, its credibility founders when one examines more closely his life and environment during his first decades in Vienna. Here, as a pianist and composer, as a teacher and witty conversationalist, Beethoven belonged to an expansive and close-knit tapestry of social, artistic, professional, family...

The new inscriptions published in this volume are an impressive cross-section of the prosperous urban society of Roman Imperial Cibyra. Outstanding honorary families, some of whose members were able to rise to the imperial aristocracy, stand before our eyes in desirable differentiation of their kinship relations: the Claudii Paulini, the Claudii Polemones or the hitherto unknown Flavii Captiones, who were among the builders of the impressive stadium of Cibyra. The findings of the excavations in...

This edited volume gathers papers which follow innovative approaches in obsidian studies in order to revive the debate on procurement strategies, knapping and use of this raw material, which remains in some sites the predominant source of exotica. The geo-chronological frame of the book is intentionally broad, covering a span from the 8th to the 1st mill. BC and a large area from the Central Mediterranean to the Caucasus, including original data on obsidian from sites and geological sources in...

With the current volume, the archaeological journal of the Federal Monuments Authority Austria presents itself in a completely new layout. In addition to the annual review of the Department of Archaeology, the book contains two essays on the topics "Pilot project for the use of site IDs of the Federal Monuments Office as a 'gazetteer' for museum archaeological inventories" and "Ten years of reorientation of the finds reports from Austria - balance and outlook" and two conference reports. It...

This volume is the first in a series of monographs dealing with the research of the Cairo Branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the site of Kom Ombo. Kom Ombo is situated approximately 45 km north of Aswan on the east bank of the Nile. The archaeological site of Kom Ombo lies some three km from the modern town, next to the river. Nowadays it is a protected area, containing the remains of the ancient tell that lies around three sides of the well-preserved Ptolemaic temple which...

Nearly 700 individual amber objects were unearthed during the British and Austrian excavations in the Artemision of Ephesos, the majority of which were found in the centre of the sanctuary. During the reconstruction of the first temple for Artemis (Naos 1), a hoard consecrated around 650 to 640 BC was deposited there as a building sacrifice and contained gold jewellery and amber along with other valuable objects. The amber from the Artemision represents the largest find complex of this material...