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The Domus Nozze D'Argento in Pompeii: Structural Diagnosis Using Geophysical Methods
Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Monitoring of ancient buildings is an issue of great interest in view of a proper restoration. This paper describes the noninvasive monitoring of the Domus Nozze D'Argento in Pompeii. The Roman house, as occurred for many other buildings in Pompei, was buried in the ash from the 79 ad eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Nicola Masini +4 more
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Swedish Society, Swedish Archaeology, and the Public Debate
Current Swedish Archaeology, 1995 During the 1980s Swedish archaeology expanded as concerns its financial resources and personnel involved in archaeological activities. Little archaeology is performed in Sweden today that is not explicitly or implicitly part of the state administrate ...
Stig Welinder
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Temperate river floodplains present a significant challenge for archaeologists, as cultural and palaeoenvironmental remains are often difficult to locate but can be exceptionally well preserved, especially where groundwater levels are high. In these alluvial environments, the deposition of thick, fine‐grained sediments has potential to deeply ...
Nicholas Crabb +3 more
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Kuwaiti Youth Attitudes toward Archaeology
Internet Archaeology, 2018 This study assesses the level of knowledge, interest, and awareness of archaeology among Kuwaiti youth in keeping with the social learning theory (Bandura 1977), which emphasises the social context in which learning takes place.
Majed Almutairi
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Starry Messages: Searching for Signatures of Interstellar Archaeology
, 2009 Searching for signatures of cosmic-scale archaeological artifacts such as Dyson spheres or Kardashev civilizations is an interesting alternative to conventional SETI.
Carrigan Jr, Richard A.
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The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions
, 2012 What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind
J. Panksepp, Lucy Biven
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The emergence and development of settlement mounds, also called tells, is of major interest for the analysis of socio‐economic transformations occurring in the lower Danube plain during the East European Chalcolithic period. In this context, the multiphase chronology and structural layout of tells are highly relevant indicators, but small ...
Manuel Zolchow +11 more
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Archaeology of Us and the Local Identity. An Interdisciplinary Context
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Archaeologica, 2019 In this paper, the Author presents the semantic and methodological scope and characteristics of a new field the archaeology of the contemporary past.
Olgierd Ławrynowicz
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Thermal‐Infrared Measurements of the North‐East Tower at Ardrossan Castle
Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Thermal‐infrared imaging of buildings is used to investigate a range of phenomena including the accumulation of moisture. In general, the presence of moisture poses a direct danger to historic structures and must be characterized prior to any intervention.
Michael Bowry +15 more
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