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Shine on you crazy diamond: Symbolism and social use of fluorite ornaments in Iberia’s late prehistory

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2021
Fluorite ornaments have been recorded in different sites of Europe since Upper Paleolithic. Due to its visual appearance and physical properties, some translucent or transparent mineralogies like fluorite were searched for or casually acquired by late ...
José Ángel Garrido-Cordero   +4 more
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Aztec obsidian industries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Obsidian was the primary lithic or stone material used for cutting activities in Aztec society, including domestic food production, craft production, hunting, warfare, and ritual.
Carballo, David M., Pastrana, Alejandro
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Warrior Burials of the Later Bronze Age With Sets of Astragals: problem of interpretation

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2019
The burial grounds of the beginning of the Late Bronze Age of the Southern Trans-Urals (Sintashta-type, Petrovka-type) which contained the burials of youths and adolescents of a male with large number of astragals are examined in the paper.
Sotnikova Svetlana V.
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Barrow 11 of the “Garden” Group in the Lower Dniester Region and Contemporary “Mythmaking” About Scythian “Amazons”

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2020
The article publishes and analyzes materials obtained during the study of the Scythian barrow 11 of the “Garden” group excavated in 2018 near village Glinoe, Slobodzeya district, on the left bank of the Lower Dniester, for the first time.The barrow was ...
Vitalij S. Sinika   +4 more
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Phenomenon of bracelets-“not-bracelets”

open access: yesМатериалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2021
The paper deals with the place of late antique bracelets with knobs in the funerary costume. There is an established opinion in the scientific community now, that such products were not used as bracelets, but were exclusively amulets.
Lysenko, S.S.
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Mansi sacrificial kerchiefs (typology and functions)

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2017
The aim of this study is to systematize information on kerchiefs that the Mansi present to the guardian spirits. The analysis is based on the typological method.
Bogordayeva A.А.
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Amber imitation? Two unusual cases of Pinus resin-coated beads in Iberian Late Prehistory (3rd and 2nd millennia BC) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A group of beads from the artificial cave of La Molina (Lora de Estepa, Sevilla) and Cova del Gegant (Sitges, Barcelona) were made from a biogenic raw material and intentionally covered by a layer of resin.
Avilés Escaño, Miguel Ángel   +5 more
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Negative effects of makeup use on perceptions of leadership ability across two ethnicities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Cosmetics alter social perceptions, and prior work suggests that cosmetic use may aid female intrasexual competition, making women appear more dominant to other women but more prestigious to other men. It is unclear whether these findings reflect general
James, Esther A.   +2 more
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Comparative Analysis of the Khazar and Slavic-Russian Attire of Adornments

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2017
The author analyzes the development traditions of the costume and associated attire of adornments characteristic of the Slavs and Khazar Khaganate peoples.
Zhilina Natalia V.
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Volga Bulgaria and Old Rus’. Comparative Characteristics of Attire of Adornments in Reconstructions of the 11th – 13th Centuries

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2020
On the base of typical hypothetical reconstructions according to the stages of the development of the attire upon archaeological material the comparative history of attires of two states is restored.
Zhilina Natalya V.
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