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Preserving the impossible: conservation of soft-sediment hominin footprint sites and strategies for three-dimensional digital data capture. [PDF]

, 2013
Human footprints provide some of the most publically emotive and tangible evidence of our ancestors. To the scientific community they provide evidence of stature, presence, behaviour and in the case of early hominins potential evidence with respect to ...
AH Gonzalez, AK Behrensmeyer, B Zimmer, BH Breihaupt, C Berge, C Musiba, CS Feibel, D Huddart, DA Raichlen, David Caramelli, DJ Meldrum, DL Roberts, F Remondino, FM Petti, G Roberts, H-U Schmincke, J Kinahan, JY Kim, Karl Bates, KS Kim, KT Bates, KT Bates, M Lockley, Matthew R. Bennett, MD Leakey, MG Leakey, MH Day, MR Bennett, MR Bennett, MR Bennett, N Agnew, N Agnew, N Snavely, N Snavely, Peter Falkingham, PL Falkingham, PL Falkingham, RH Crompton, Robin H. Crompton, SA Aramayo, SA Morse, Sarita A. Morse, SC Antón, SHR Aldhouse-Green, TC Pataky, Y Furukawa   +45 more
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Discussion: The Concept of Authenticity in Collections of Open-Air Museums

EXARC Journal, 2021
How is it possible that if you go into an arts museum, the ceramics you see may be made yesterday and may be a valued and legitimate part of the museum collection, while in open-air museums, a similar object may be produced by a master craftsperson ...
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The Value of an Archaeological Open-Air Museum is in its Use: Understanding Archaeological Open-Air Museums and their Visitors

, 2012
There are about 300 archaeological open-air museums in Europe. Their history goes from Romanticism up to modern-day tourism. With the majority dating to the past 30 years, they do more than simply present (re)constructed outdoor sceneries based on archaeology.
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Digitizing collections to unlock the full potential of palynology: A case study with the Smithsonian palynology collection

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Large palynological collections have been built over decades and contain vital information. However, they are often difficult to access and use effectively. What is the point of having such collections if they are not fully utilizable? To solve this problem, we digitized the Smithsonian palynological collection using both light and confocal microscopy.
Carlos Jaramillo, Surangi W. Punyasena, Daurys de Alba, Roxana Alveo, Angelica Arcila, Jorge Bermudez, Jonatan Bustos, Dayenari Caballero‐Rodriguez, Karen Cardenas, David Caro, Francy Carvajal, Ivonne Marcela Castañeda, Shara Chaves, Carlos D'Apolito, Andres Diaz‐Jaramillo, Laura Diaz, Luisa Gomez, Mauricio León‐Carreño, Paula Lopera, Maria Alejandra Lopez, Priscila Lopez, Luke Mander, Jhonatan Martínez Murcia, Carlos Moreno, Enrique Moreno, Enrique Neyra, Brenda Orosco, Jhon Ortiz, Natalia Ossa, Natalia Ovalle, Carolina Ovalle, Angelo Plata, Ingrid Romero, Bruno Scudeiro, Silane A. F. da Silva Caminha, Axel Tejada‐Fajardo, Vinicius Do Valle, Thiago Wood   +37 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preventive conservation strategies for sustainable urban pollution control in museums [PDF]

, 2000
The last 40 years have seen major changes in the sources and concentrations of urban pollution (nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and particulates).
Blades, N, Cassar, M, Croxford, B, Oreszczyn, T   +3 more
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Using MALDI‐FTICR Mass Spectrometry to Enhance ZooMS Identifications of Pleistocene Bone Fragments Showing Variable Collagen Preservation

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rationale Recent advances in high‐throughput molecular analyses of collagen peptides, especially ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry), have permitted breakthroughs in the analysis of archaeological material that is highly fragmented, a factor that hinders morphological identification.
Pauline Raymond, Karen Ruebens, Fabrice Bray, Jean‐Christophe Castel, Eugène Morin, Foni Le Brun‐Ricalens, Jean‐Guillaume Bordes, Christian Rolando, Jean‐Jacques Hublin   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looking Back

EXARC Journal, 2015
Over 25 years I have actively worked with knowledge dissemination and bringing history alive. From this experience I have concluded that it has been among the most fantastic developments since museums first started.
Björn M. Buttler Jakobsen
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A reappraisal of the Middle to Later Stone Age prehistory of Morocco Réévaluer la préhistoire du Maroc, du Middle Stone Age au Later Stone Age

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters.
Nick Barton, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Stacy Carolin, Louise Humphrey   +3 more
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The Jubilee Year of 2020 at Lofotr Viking Museum

EXARC Journal, 2021
After several years of archaeological excavations at Borg in Lofoten in the 1980s, Lofotr Viking Museum was established in 1995. The excavations uncovered an 83-meter longhouse dated to the Viking age.
Marion Fjelde Larsen
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Gristhorpe Man: an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined [PDF]

, 2010
A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new ...
Batt, Cathy, Carter, Elizabeth, Edwards, Howell G M, Evans, Adrian, Hargreaves, Michael, Heron, Carl, Horsley, Tim, Janaway, Rob, Knüsel, Christopher J, Lynnerup, Niels, Melton, Nigel, Montgomery, Janet, Needham, Stuart, Northover, Peter, O'Connor, Sonia, Ogden, Alan, Parker Pearson, Mike, Schmidt, Armin, Sheridan, J A, Taylor, Timothy, Wastling, Vaughan, Wilson, Andrew   +21 more
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