Former land use affects the nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and biomass of forest herbs [PDF]
, 2011 The colonization rates of understorey plants into forests growing on former agricultural land differ remarkably among species. Different dispersal and recruitment largely account for the contrasting colonization rates, but different effects of the soil ...
Baeten, Lander +6 more
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A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes
bioRxiv, 2021 The sequencing of modern and ancient genomes from around the world has revolutionised our understanding of human history and evolution1,2. However, the general problem of how best to characterise the full complexity of ancestral relationships from the ...
A. Wohns +9 more
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Atossa’s Dream Yoking Music and Dance, Antiquity and Modernity in Maurice Emmanuel’s Salamine (1929) [PDF]
, 2012 This essay explores the conflicting trends of tradition and modernism, unity and independence in Parisian musical and dance culture in the late 1920s through an analysis of Maurice Emmanuel’s (1863-1938) aesthetics of contemporary and ancient Greek music
Samuel Dorf
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The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections [PDF]
, 2015 The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology first opened its doors in 1915, and since then has attracted visitors from all over the world as well as providing valuable teaching resources. Named after its founder, the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie,
Stevenson, AE
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Archaeology and virtual acoustics. A pan flute from ancient Egypt [PDF]
, 2015 This paper presents the early developments of a recently started research project, aimed at studying from a multidisciplinary perspective an exceptionally well preserved ancient pan flute.
ANGELINI, IVANA +13 more
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Ancient DNA and the rewriting of human history: be sparing with Occam’s razor
Genome Biology, 2016 Ancient DNA research is revealing a human history far more complex than that inferred from parsimonious models based on modern DNA. Here, we review some of the key events in the peopling of the world in the light of the findings of work on ancient DNA.
Marc Haber +3 more
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Textile Prices in Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts. Three Case Studies
Studia Ceranea, 2020 This text analyzes three early Byzantine source accounts on clothing prices from the beginning of the 5th to the early 7th centuries in Italy (Rome), Palestine (probably in Jerusalem), and Egypt (Alexandria).
Ireneusz Milewski
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Expanding Field-Archaeology Education: The Integration of 3D Technology into Archaeological Training
Open Archaeology, 2021 This contribution analyses and discusses the use of 3D technology in education and learning. Basing the discussion on a case study performed during two seasons of a field school for 1st-year archaeology students, we explore how to expand traditional ...
Derudas Paola, Berggren Åsa
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Towards the Recapitulation of Ancient History in the Laboratory: Combining Synthetic Biology with Experimental Evolution [PDF]
IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2012 One way to understand the role history plays on evolutionary trajectories is by giving ancient life a second opportunity to evolve. Our ability to empirically perform such an experiment, however, is limited by current experimental designs.
B. Kaçar, E. Gaucher
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Engineering of Ancient Greece [PDF]
, 2020 STEP Category: Education AbroadMy STEP project will be a two-week education abroad trip to Greece with a one-week class on campus in May 2019. The education abroad program, “Engineering of Ancient Greece” is through the Office of International Affairs at
Richmond, Jonathan
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