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WEST SIBERIAN BRONZE AGE СOMPOUND АDORNMENTS

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2013
The article deals with the interpretation of the appearance and functions ofWest Siberia composite adornments, The main types of the Bronze Age head-wear and clothes decorations, as well as the territorial and chronological peculiarities of their ...
O. V. Umerenkova
doaj  

In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

Perforation techniques and traces of use on the Mesolithic adornments of the Trench Area at Cabeco da Amoreira Shellmidden (Muge, central Portugal)

open access: yes, 2016
The opening of a new excavation area, in 2010, at the Mesolithic shell mound of Cabeco da Amoreira (Muge, central Portugal), known as Trench, uncovered a set of personal adornments made of gastropod shells (Theodoxus fluviatilis and Trivia arctica ...
Bicho, Nuno Gonçalo Viana Pereira Ferreira   +1 more
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Lessons in decoration from the Qur’ānic Sūrah al-Zukhruf (Gold Adornments) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This paper discusses three lessons in decoration from the Qur’ānic chapter, or sūrah, al-Zukhruf (gold adornments). The lessons recognise and deal with decoration as an intrinsic human pursuit, a means of deception, and a means for enhancing and ...
Omer, Spahic
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Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
wiley   +1 more source

Body-centric transformable adornments: a sustainable approach

open access: yes, 2018
Emerging trends, fast fashion and the current patterns of consumer behavior leads to overconsumption which traces a negative impact on sustainable practice.
Samarasekara, KKGIC, Jayawardhana, JKM
core  

Parts of a Medieval diadem from the fortress near the village of Zdravkovets, Gabrovo region

open access: yesПриноси към българската археология, 2020
Bulgarian Medieval diadems from the 13th – 14th c. are an interesting topic of study, but only few scholars paid them attention. The aim of the article is to present a part of a new silver gilded diadem.
Rosen Yosifov
doaj  

El papel de la vestimenta en los rituales mexicas de “personificación”

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2016
During their ceremonies, the Mexica or Aztecs of central Mexico used certain costumes woven with cotton or vegetable fibres, or simply made of amate paper, covered with designs. This article seeks to explain the variety of these ritual garments utilizing
Danièle Dehouve
doaj   +1 more source

Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Hoard of Artifacts of the Beginning of 13th Century from Zolotorevka Fortified Settlement and Mongol Invasion

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2019
The paper features an analysis of items from a hoard discovered inside the remains of a building in a medieval fortified settlement near Zolotarevka village on the Upper Sura.
Belorybkin Gennadiy N.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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