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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New radiocarbon determinations from rice grains and bamboo have been obtained from Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand. These, along with charcoal, date a late Iron Age building sequence. The results come from short‐lived species and charcoal with potential inbuilt age. We built a series of Bayesian models to obtain a reliable chronology.
C. F. W. Higham, T. F. G. Higham
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg +3 more
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Archaeological evaluation : Oldfield Road, Salford [PDF]
, 2017 Salford Archaeology was commissioned by Muse Developments to undertake an archaeological evaluation of land on Oldfield Rd (centred on NGR: SJ82573 98439), currently being developed as part of Salford’s regeneration scheme. This report consists of the
Cook, OE, Mottershead, SC
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Museum Care of Indigenous Cradles: Insights From Consultation With Tribal Communities
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Traditional cradles are important objects in many Indigenous American cultures. A historical tendency of museums to overlook Indigenous perspectives on proper object handling and display has often resulted in improper care of culturally sensitive objects in museum collections.
Abby S. Baka +10 more
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Analele Banatului. Arheologie-Istorie, 2020 The paper presents preliminary data on leather and textile artifacts from the Timişoara Sfântu Gheorghe Square 2014 archaeological excavation, data that will be taken into account when initiating the conservation operations of the artifacts.
Hedy M-Kiss
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Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani +2 more
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APPRAISAL OF THE OVERALL CONDITION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SILK FABRIC FRAGMENTS [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Fascicle of Textiles, Leatherwork, 2019 In order to preserve the cultural identity of a nation, it is imperious to take special care of the textile materials which are representative for a certain historical period.
SANDULACHE Irina-Mariana +5 more
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Routes and long-distance traffic : the nodal points of Wulfstan's voyage [PDF]
, 2008 Wulfstan, author of the sole preserved contemporary description of the 9th-century southern Baltic littoral, is an enigmatic fi gure. From archaeology we have learned that the coast he followed was at this time speckled with trading ports, large and ...
Sindbæk, Søren
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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Przegląd ArcheologicznyWeaving is undoubtedly a hallmark of the Pre-Columbian societies that occupied the Andean region, reflected in the varied roles of textiles based on their characteristics as objects for clothing, funeral offerings, and vehicles for the transmission of ...
Jakub Wanot +4 more
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