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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Sorghum is a staple food for hundreds of millions of people in dry regions worldwide, and improving its nutritional quality is vital for global food and health security under climate change. In this study, we evaluated traditional Sudanese sorghum varieties grown in eastern deltas to better understand their natural health‐promoting properties. We found
Khitma A. Sir Elkhatim +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Textile production is among the most fundamental and more complex technologies in human prehistory, but is under-investigated due to the perishable nature of fibrous materials.
Margarita Gleba +4 more
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Folded, layered textiles from a Bronze Age pit pyre excavated from Over Barrow 2, Cambridgeshire, England. [PDF]
, 2015 The textiles from Over Barrow, Cambridgeshire, England present the opportunity to examine the burial practices at the end of the Early Bronze Age. They were excavated from a pit pyre cremation along with cremated bone, a bone needle/pin and two small ...
Harris, Susanna
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios +7 more
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Textilní produkce ve starém Egyptě a její doklady z Abúsíru | Ancient Egyptian textile production with the focus on finds from Abusir [PDF]
Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2019 The aim of this article is to present the textile production in ancient Egypt. This material figured prominently in all aspects of life of the Egyptians.
Dorotea Wollnerová
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Weaving Textiles: Textile Consumption for Travel and Warfare
Viking, 2021 Textile research has demonstrated that new types of textiles were introduced to Scandinavia in the latter part of the Scandinavian Iron Age (AD 700–900).
Eva Andersson Strand
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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The peculiarities of archaeological textile materials and the methods of their attribution
Поволжская археология, 2015 The main peculiarities of textile materials, discovered in different archaeological sites with various conditions of archaeological transformation are considered in the article.
Glushkova Tamara N.
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Archaeological textile item – vestment paraman: research and conservation-restoration
Tyragetia, 2020 The paper presents the research and the conservation-restoration treatment of the Metropolitan Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni’s vestment – the paraman discovered as a result of archaeological excavations in the area of the Căpriana Monastery in the Republic of
Mariana Gugeanu
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2016 The Nasca area is the place of origin of innumerable archaeological examples that show the level of technical skill achieved by Prehispanic weavers. Although we now know much about the techniques involved in the manufacture of these items, however little
Viviana Siveroni, Anne Tiballi
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