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Preventive building archaeology
Developed in the 1980s, in connection with the deployment of preventive archaeology in France, the analysis of the built environment concerns all types of constructions, whatever their period, nature or function. Built remains are essential evidence of ancient occupations, in the same way as other types of objects found during excavations.
Mataouchek, Victorine +3 more
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Abstract Walruses have been an important subsistence and cultural resource for humans and have been exploited for millennia across their distribution. This exploitation has contributed to severe declines in several populations and local extirpations.
Katrien Dierickx +6 more
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MANIFESTO FOR THE ROMANIAN PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY
In this paper I shall only discuss a few of the problems of archaeology in Romania from the perspective of my one-year experience as member and vice-president of the National Commission of Archaeology.
Sorin Nemeti
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Prescribed in order to back up restoration work, the archaeological study of Saint-Paxent’s church in Nozières – a modest-looking building – revealed the presence of an unsuspected potential.
Victorine Mataouchek
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Newton Hall and the cruck buildings of North West England [PDF]
This study is an introduction to the archaeology and history of Newton Hall, Hyde, in Tameside. As a timber-framed cruck building from the late medieval period it is one of the oldest homes in North West England, and was one of the first such buildings ...
Nevell, MD
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Britannia in numbers: 50 years of the journal of Romano-British and kindred studies [PDF]
This paper reviews contributions to the journal Britannia over the last 50 years, and considers future directions.
Allen +14 more
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Abstract Muscle architecture is a major determinant of muscle performance and, in mammalian lineages, has been correlated with both feeding ecology and locomotor behaviors. Over the past decade, contrast‐enhanced micro‐CT (DiceCT) has emerged as an alternative to traditional dissection‐based measurement.
Aleksandra Ratkiewicz +5 more
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Living in the industrial city: Housing quality, land ownership and the archaeological evidence from industrial Manchester, 1740-1850 [PDF]
This paper looks at the recent archaeological evidence for industrial housing in Manchester, United Kingdom. The paper argues that a fragmented land-holding pattern developed in a number of city-centre areas during the second half of the eighteenth ...
Nevell, MD
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Abstract The human mandibular symphysis concentrates multiaxial loads during function and remodels throughout growth, but the precise mechanisms underlying cortical bone shape during growth remain relatively unexplored. Approaches based solely on thickness or external cortical contours provide only partial insights and do not capture the functional ...
Ana Ribeiro +3 more
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Histoire et archéologie des châteaux médiévaux japonais
Up to the 1960s Japanese archaeology was almost exclusively concerned with prehistory and the protohistoric periods. But then the discovery of mokkan – wooden tablets containing written information on the way society operated – revealed to historians the
Pierre-François Souyri
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