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Studia Humanistyczne AGH, 2015 Investigating ancient Pueblo culture from the North American Southwest is challenging task involving cooperationof scientists from different disciplines, mainly archaeology, history, anthropology, and linguistics. There isalso a large body of information
Radosław Palonka
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The Wonders of the Transatlantic Journey: Alice Munro’s “The View from Castle Rock” [PDF]
Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 2014 Alice Munro’s short story “The View from Castle Rock” is largely inspired by her ancestors’ journey from Scotland to Canada, where they settled. Her fictionalized account of the journey is centred on the ship, described as the heterotopia par excellence, which allows her to highlight the turning points in her characters’ trajectories, revealing “lines ...
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Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 39-78, March 2025.Abstract This study collects original data to examine the determinants of classification criteria of county hierarchy and its rank variations during the Tang–Song period. The results reveal that the county hierarchy was affected by both economic and political situations, with more emphasis on politics in Tang and economics in Song.
Nan Li, Heqi Cai
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The Material Basis of 18th‐Century Meissen Porcelain
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the summer of 1708, the quest for making hard‐paste porcelain from Saxonian clay and other mineral resources succeeded. This was achieved by applying as its essential ingredient newly discovered pure kaolin from Heidelsberg near Aue, western Saxon Ore Mountains.
Robert B. Heimann
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Death, Grief and Collective Care in the Materialist Spirituality of a Forest Preschool
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a time when material reality appears disconnected from the spiritual world and meaning is sought through overconsumption of the Earth's material sphere, this study explores how death and grief are narrated as part of the ‘stories of the land’ that unite the material and spiritual worlds in a forest preschool in southeastern Finland ...
Emma Kurenlahti +3 more
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Uncovering correlates of decline and critical refuges for a threatened terrestrial mammal
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Globally, the geographic ranges of numerous species are contracting. Identifying spatiotemporal patterns of threat impact can illuminate why species decline in some parts of their range but persist in others. We developed a correlative approach to identify species’ response thresholds and locate ecological refuge areas associated with ...
Natalya M. Maitz +5 more
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Farm Buildings, Castle Rock SD, Butte County
, 1984 35 mm slide, a grain silo next to possibly an elevatorAS-HP1:D3; Buffalo - Clay; Castle Rock;Kodachrome Slide 26 Aug 84C19 Roll 3 BU-
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England have received limited attention. The economic downturn and the depressed customary land market in this decade marked the beginning of the Great ...
Mark Bailey
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