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View of street with Ostia apartments; Ancient town and the port for Rome at the mouth of the Tiber River; founded in the 4th century BCE; rivalled Puteoli (Pozzuoli) as the major port in Italy by 100 CE; declined after 3rd century CE, abandoned ca.
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A new morphological phylogeny of Malacostraca comparing the application of character dependencies and implied weighting. [PDF]
CladisticsAbstract Using a new character matrix composed of revised matrices of previous analyses and new morphological findings, the phylogeny of Malacostraca (Pancrustacea) is analysed anew with 207 characters for 35 terminal taxa across all recognized orders. Particular emphasis was placed on methodological versatility, including different degrees of implied ...
Grams M +3 more
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Lifestyle Impacts the Oral Microbiome of Classical and Post‐Classical Societies in Italy [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives The fall of the Roman Empire (476 CE) profoundly affected the lives of its peoples due to the political, administrative, and territorial changes that occurred. The majority of written records of the time focus on the social élite, leaving larger parts of the population understudied.
Farese M +9 more
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Aerial Ostia. Before and After E42
Archeomatica, 2019 During the XXth century, numerous studies were carried out in the site of ancient Ostia, also thanks to the support of aerial photography. Starting from the “Topophotographich survey” realized by the Italian Army in 1911, up to the “Atlante di Ostia ...
Massimiliano David +2 more
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WNT/beta-catenin signalling and epithelial patterning in the homoscleromorph sponge Oscarella. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Sponges branch basally in the metazoan phylogenetic tree and are thus well positioned to provide insights into the evolution of mechanisms controlling animal development, likely to remain active in adult sponges.
Pascal Lapébie +7 more
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Application of SFM and laser scanning technology to the description of mosaics piece by piece [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014 Mosaic floors of surviving buildings in Ostia have been mainly recorded in photographs. From 2008, Japanese research group carries out a project of 3d measuring of the whole structure of ancient Roman city Ostia using laser scanners, including its ...
O. Ajioka, O. Ajioka, Y. Hori
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Plant Nutrition in the Roman empire
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Volume 186, Issue 5, Page 479-486, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article presents various techniques for plant nutrition in the ancient world, namely ancient Rome. It discusses the attempts of Roman farmers to ameliorate their soil by ways of spreading manure, green manuring, and applying mineral fertilizers and other materials thought of as improving the soil.
Werner Tietz +1 more
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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever
Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 243-273, June 2023., 2023 For centuries after his death in the late twelfth century, Simon of Tournai, a master of theology in the Parisian schools, had a reputation for being an unbeliever punished by God with a stroke. This article gathers the eight known medieval sources for his stroke and examines them from a mythogenetic perspective to demonstrate how different authors ...
Keagan Brewer
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Ontogenetic variability of the intertympanic sinus distinguishes lineages within Crocodylia
Journal of Anatomy, Volume 242, Issue 6, Page 1096-1123, June 2023., 2023 We recognised the usefulness of the paratympanic sinuses in distinguishing major lineages within Crocodylia. 3D geometric morphometric approaches allow us to quantify the ontogeny and variability of the intertympanic sinus within one of the largest dataset of modern species, including one of the largest specimens ever scanned at such a high resolution.
Gwendal Perrichon +10 more
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A Detailed Structural Classification of Cross Vault in Ostia [PDF]
Athens Journal of ArchitectureIn ancient Rome, the use of vaulted structures built by using Roman concrete allowed for the construction of high-rise buildings. This architectural influence can be evident in Ostia, the Roman port city.
Takuro Ogawa
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