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Mapping cultural heritage sites at risk: A support tool for heritage sites management
Journal of Urban ManagementUnder the threat of climate change, the world has become an increasingly unsafe place, with a series of extreme events causing devastation and high economic costs. These impacts are heterogeneous due to differences in climate change effects across regions and the varying socio-economic characteristics of affected places. This interconnection is crucial
Maria Giovanna Brandano +3 more
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Upper Mesopotamia, the transition from the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) to Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period, ca. 10 800–10 600 cal. BP, is marked by a series of changes in chipped stone industries, architectural forms, symbolic objects, regional distribution of settlements and long‐distance exchange networks among others.
Toshihiro Tada +7 more
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The Characteristics of Büyükada as a Cultural Landscape
Heritage, 2019 This paper addresses the cultural landscape characteristics of Büyükada, the largest of Istanbul’s Princes’ Islands, with regard to the universal definition of the content and extent of the cultural landscape, to provide background ...
Selin Karsan Ayanoğlu, Yegan Kahya
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Heritage Assemblages. The Heritage Site of Borobudur (Indonesia) as a Cultural Landscape
Moussons, 2020 This paper interrogates the recent designation of the Borobudur heritage site (Central Java, Indonesia) as saujana budaya by a network of Indonesian activists and academics.
Adèle Esposito Andujar
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rain‐induced erosion processes can severely damage Earthen archaeological sites. Huaca Chornancap (HCH; eighth–14th century ad) is a platform located in the Lambayeque region (Peru) exposed to seasonal rain due to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
Luigi Magnini +5 more
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The Ironbridge Gorge Heritage Site and its local and regional functions
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2017 The article is devoted to the issue of heritage and its functions. Based on the existing literature, the author presents the definition of heritage, the classification of heritage resources, and its most important impacts.
Cudny Waldemar
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Understanding geohazards in the UNESCO WHL site of the Derwent Valley Mills (UK) using geological and remote sensing data [PDF]
, 2016 An analysis of the British Geological Survey’s key hazard datasets (GeoSure, DiGMapGB, National Landslide Database, Geological Indicators of Flooding and Susceptibility to Groundwater Flooding) has provided an enhanced understanding of geohazards ...
Cigna, Francesca +3 more
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Museums, Artefacts and Cultural Heritage Sites
The Journal of Media Innovations, 2021 The relationships between museums, artefacts and original sites are complex. How may we use mobile augmented reality (AR) to bridge the gaps between both indoors and outdoors exhibitions as well as the opposition between central collections and the more peripheral sites of the original artefacts? In this paper we present two main cases (the Viking Ship
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Burial mounds are key elements of Mediterranean funerary landscapes, but in intensively cultivated coastal plains their low‐relief expression is easily obscured by ploughing, levelling and rapidly changing surface conditions, making single‐date observations unreliable.
Salvatore Polverino +2 more
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of an integrated archaeological and geophysical investigation conducted between 2018 and 2024 at the newly discovered Picenian and Roman necropolis of Contrada Nevola (Corinaldo, Marche, Central Italy), identified in the framework of development‐led archaeology. The research strategy combined aerial photography,
Federica Boschi
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