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From value to desirability: the allure of worldly things [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper, the author takes the approach that value is a judgment that people make about things based on desire, and the potential of the effects those things engender.
Harris, Susanna
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Radiocarbon dating of archaeological textiles at different states of preservation

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2023
Archaeological textiles are suitable material for radiocarbon dating as they are mainly made of organic matter, such as plant and/or animal fibres. Radiocarbon dating provides objective age estimates of archaeological finds, based on measurements of the ...
Christina Margariti   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeology and autonomies: the legal framework of heritage management in a new Bolivia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The 2009 Bolivian Constitution significantly changed the structure of the state and paved the way for the creation of regional, local, and even indigenous autonomies.
Dangl   +6 more
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Textiles from Tomb II in Deir el-Bahari: preliminary reportfrom season 2012/2013 [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016
In the 2012/2013 season, the Polish–Egyptian Archaeological and ConservationMission of the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari (PCMA UW) continued work in a tomb(Tomb II) cut into the cliffs bordering the temple of Tuthmosis III from the west.
Aleksandra Hallmann
doaj   +1 more source

Weaving Textiles: Textile Consumption for Travel and Warfare

open access: yesViking, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of the use of nanoparticles in the protection of non-dyed antiquity textiles from stain effect - experimental study

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2019
This study has attempted to solve the archaeological textiles staining problem through the use of modern nanotechnology and its applications to carry out the investigation experimental study on the use of (ZnO, TiO2) for the protection of archaeological ...
Eman Osman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dyes in History and Archaeology 41: Reflections on the Conference and Its Assembly of Articles

open access: yesHeritage, 2023
In 1982, eight people—archaeologists, colour scientists and analysts—met in a room in King’s Manor, York University, to discuss a subject of significance to them all: the analysis of dyes on archaeological and historical textiles [...]
Jo Kirby   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

70 years of Polish research on archaeological textiles

open access: yesPrzegląd Archeologiczny, 2019
The article summarizes 70 years of Polish research on archaeological textiles. Their beginning was associated with the discoveries of textiles during the Millennium research of the 1950s and 60s. Textiles were then studied above all by A.
Jerzy Maik
doaj   +1 more source

A literature review of analytical techniques for materials characterisation of painted textiles - Part 2: spectroscopic and chromatographic analytical instrumentation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Part Two of this Literature Review of analytical techniques for materials characterisation of painted textiles focusses on the application of vibrational and x-ray spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques used in the analysis of painted textiles to ...
Lennard, Frances   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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