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Archaeological evaluation : Skelhorne Street, Liverpool [PDF]
, 2016 Salford Archaeology was commissioned by Nexus-Heritage to undertake an archaeological evaluation on a car park at Skelhorne Street and Bolton Street, Liverpool (centred on NGR 335075 390430) as part of a redevelopment scheme.
Mottershead, SC
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2008 Cotton plants, belonging to several species of the Gossypium genus, have attracted the attention of Old World populations since the Neolithic because of the fibres that are attached to their seeds.
Margareta Tengberg +1 more
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, 2014 Evidence from sites in the lower Ulua valley of north-central Honduras, occupied between a.d. 500 and 1000, provides new insight into the connections between households, craft production, and the role of objects in maintaining social relations within and
Hendon, Julia A. +2 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2019 Textile use of the cotton fibres from the Old World species Gossypium arboreum (Tree Cotton) and G. herbaceum (Levant Cotton) started around eight thousand years ago and possibly earlier. During the third millennium before the present, cotton cultivation,
Christopher Viot
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
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Zephyrus, 2013 In this paper, we try to assess the importance of textile production in the societies of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula. We have tried to characterize each of the crafts, weaving textiles, cordage and basketry, mainly.
Francisco Javier JOVER MAESTRE +1 more
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Exploring the potential of the strontium isotope tracing system in Denmark
Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2012 Migration and trade are issues important to the understanding of ancient cultures. There are many ways in which these topics can be investigated. This article provides an overview of a method based on an archaeological scientific methodology developed ...
Karin Margarita Frei
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Cloth cultures in prehistoric Europe: the Bronze Age evidence from Hallstatt [PDF]
Cloth cultures in prehistoric Europe is a post-doctoral fellowship project awarded to Susanna Harris by the British Academy from 2008-2011. The aim of the project is to bring together and examine evidence for textiles and animal skins in prehistoric ...
Grömer, Karina +3 more
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