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Snake and Moon ‘Right Way Marriage’ Stories on Stone and Bark
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In northwest Australia, boab trees hold significant cultural values for First Nations people. Their leaves, bark, roots and nuts are important as traditional resources for food, medicine, fibre, water and shade and serve as reference points in the landscape. Some of the tree trunks are inscribed with images and symbols which tell of events and
Jane Balme +7 more
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Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2018 The lack of accurate locational information on abandoned medieval and later graveyards constitutes a considerable challenge to national and local bodies tasked with their protection and management.
Rebecca J.S. Cannell +3 more
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The World Heritage and cultural landscapes
PASOS Revista de turismo y patrimonio cultural, 2006 Landscapes have a range of values that communities recognize as important and want to conserve. Cultural and natural values are the qualities which make a place or landscape important. In particular, we can consider Cultural Landscapes an important and constitutional part of the World Heritage.
Esposito, Mark, Cavelzani, Alessandro
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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper outlines preliminary results from our multimethod research about Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) and associated bark and wooden material culture in Yagara Country in southeast Queensland. Methods employed include historical source and modern database analysis, archaeological field surveys, semi‐structured interviews with Yagara ...
Kate Greenwood +3 more
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Sustaining Cultural Heritage at UNH [PDF]
, 2015 Building a new road? A cell phone tower? A pipeline? A new government building? Building anything with federal funds or on federal property requires that one must conduct a review of the impact of the project on tangible cultural resources, which ...
Howey, Meghan L.
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Cultural heritage and sustainable development targets : a possible harmonisation? Insights from the European Perspective [PDF]
, 2019 The Agenda 2030 includes a set of targets that need to be achieved by 2030. Although none of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focuses exclusively on cultural heritage, the resulting Agenda includes explicit reference to heritage in SDG 11.4 ...
Busisiwe Ncube Makore, C +2 more
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Reconstructing Van Gogh’s palette to determine the optical characteristics of his paints
Heritage Science, 2018 The colors of Field with Irises near Arles, painted by Van Gogh in Arles in 1888, have changed considerably. To get an idea of how this painting, as well as other works by Van Gogh, looked shortly after their production, the Revigo (Re-assessing Vincent ...
Muriel Geldof +4 more
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Computing for Cultural Heritage [PDF]
, 2020 A recent job advertisement for a curatorial role at the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom, reflects the changing nature, and digital competency requirements for professionals working in cultural heritage and research libraries: · Contribute to and undertake work on digitisation and digital projects · Assist in implementing new
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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research examines rock art and dendroglyphs in the Wet Tropics of northeast Australia to investigate their relationship to linguistic social identity. The region was selected for its complex socio‐cultural landscape, marked by a diversity of languages in a distinct, relatively small area.
Alice Buhrich
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Heritage and Resilience: Issues and Opportunities for Reducing Disaster Risks [PDF]
, 2013 This paper examines the unique role of cultural heritage in disaster risk reduction. Itintroduces various approaches to protect heritage from irreplaceable loss and considers ways to draw upon heritage as an asset in building the resilience of ...
Albrito, Paola +10 more
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