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Rapid Speleological Survey Procedures for Hermitages.The Cave of the Angel in Montesano (SA) [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
The paper presents an experiment having the objective of verifying the use of low-cost sensors such as solid-state Lidar embedded in a smartphone for cave surveying. The case study is a micaelic hermitage in Montesano sulla Marcellana (Italy) and is part
V. Cera
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Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
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Architecture, funerary structures and cult sites in Turkish Thrace

Peuce Serie Nouă
Excavations have been carried out at three Early Iron Age sites in Turkish Thrace. The Kilisetepe and Menekşe Çatağı Mounds of Maydos are located on the southern coastal line of the region, while the Aşağıpınar Mound is in the centre. The characteristic architecture of the region can only be defined by the few architectural finds from these sites ...
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Housing Since 1945: The Impact of Policy Change and Ideology

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Housing policy in England has undergone significant reform on several occasions since 1945. Consensus approaches in the late 1940s and 50s to build large numbers of council houses and new private homes gave way to more ideologically driven policies in the 1970s and 80s.
Tony Travers
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Dematerializing Riegl’s Modern Cult of Monuments

EAR
This paper delves into the transformation of memory and heritage in the digital age, interpreting Alois Riegl’s pivotal 1903 work, “The Modern Cult of Monuments,” through the lens of today’s digital technologies.
Nikola Beim
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Churches no longer as churches: the urban case study in Pisa

In_Bo, 2017
The urban tissue of Pisa is characterized by the presence of many churches built mostly in the Middle Ages (XI-XIII); however, the gradual reduction of the believer’s number in contrast to the widespread of churches, brought to re-functionalization of ...
Fabiana Susini
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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A Pack of Questions. On the problem of intercivilisational relations between East and West

Проект Байкал, 2017
The tolerance and ability to smoothly admit borrowings are considered as attributive peculiarities of the Russian culture and the Russian language.
Konstantin Lidin
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The Cult of Boudhanath Stupa/Jarung Khashar Suvraga in Mongolia: Texts, Images, and Architectural Replicas [PDF]

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 2019
The cult of the Nepalese stupa of Boudhanath (Tib. Jarung khashor/Bya rung kha shor, Mo. Jarung khashar) was very popular in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Mongolia, especially in Buryatia. Testaments to its popularity include the translation into Mongolian of a famous Tibetan guidebook to Boudhanath, a corpus of Mongolian oral narratives, the ...
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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