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GROUNDWATER QUALITY IN CEMETERIES AREA IN CUIABÁ – MT

open access: yesRevista Águas Subterrâneas, 2006
This research describes the results of physicochemical, chemical and bacterium analyses of two cemeteries in Cuiabá metropolitan aerea: São Gonçalo and Parque Bom Jesus. The aim of this work is to investigate the environmental impacts on the groundwaters
Renato Blat Migliorini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The site of Jebel Moya, excavated in the early twentieth century, represents arguably the largest pastoral mortuary complex in Africa. Jebel Moya is resituated in relation to the neighbouring Meroitic-era agro-pastoral settlements and the only known ...
Brass, M
core   +1 more source

Wo manchmal die Gebeine bleichen

open access: yesArtium Quaestiones, 2018
The status of cemeteries in European culture is unique. Tombs with inscriptions informing about the names of the buried are peculiar examples of historical documents which persuasively illustrate the history of a given region by revealing the truth ...
Tadeusz Żuchowski
doaj   +1 more source

PRESERVE FROM OBLIVION - POLISH CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE SOCIAL SPACE OF THE POLES IN PIEDMONT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Cultural heritage of any nation will aff ect both the supporting national identity, as well as creates collective memory, is shaping it, enriches and makes the material expression.
Henczel-Wróblewska, Ligia
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Cemeteries in Poland as Built Structures and Their Impact on Shaping the Social Environment [PDF]

open access: yesKrytyka Prawa
The research objective of this article is to analyse the legal aspects concerning the placement of cemeteries in urban space. It will aim to reconstruct legal definitions of cemeteries and to provide an answer to the research question concerning the ...
Marta Baranowska, Paweł Fiktus
doaj   +1 more source

The protected flora of long‐established cemeteries in Hungary: Using historical maps in biodiversity conservation

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2020
The role of anthropogenically influenced habitats in conserving elements of the original wildlife has increased worldwide simultaneously with the disappearance of natural sites.
Viktor Löki   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cemeteries and Urban Planning in Vienna

open access: yesUrban Science
(1) Background: As social infrastructures, cemeteries have always played a central role in various human cultures. The changing function of cemeteries and the recognition of their potential as green spaces have resulted in the fact that cemeteries are a ...
Raimund Wiesinger, Tatjana Fischer
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation and development opportunities of the disused Lutheran cemeteries within the Maskulińskie and Pisz Forest Divisions for thanatourism

open access: yesTourism, 2015
This paper presents the results of a study of 67 disused Lutheran cemeteries situated in the Pisz and Maskulińskie Forest Divisions (the southern part of Warmińsko-Mazurskie Province).
Sławomir Sobotka, Anna Długozima
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable deathstyles? The geography of green burials in Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the context of a wider literature on ‘deathscapes’, we map the emergence of a new mode of burial and remembrance in Britain. Since a ‘green’ burial ground was established in Carlisle in 1993, sites for so-called ‘green, ‘natural’ or ‘woodland ...
Kelly, CL   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

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

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