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Early modern period adobe in Sicily: recent finds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Earthen architecture in ancient Sicily can be linked to a technological continuity common to the whole Mediterranean basin. The island possesses numerous finds, dating back to periods from pre-history to the Hellenistic-Roman age, during which the adobe ...
GERMANA', Maria Luisa
core   +1 more source

Back from Shingly: revisiting the premodern history of Jews in Kerala [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Jewish history in Kerala is based on sources mainly from the colonial period onward and mostly in European languages, failing to account for the premodern history of Jews in Kerala. These early modern sources are based on oral traditions of Paradeśi Jews
Gamliel, Ophira
core   +1 more source

"Law Reporting" in Europe in the Early-Modern Period: Two Experiences in Comparison [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The article challenges the cliché handed down to us by the European legal tradition of a marked contrast between ‘common law’, assumed as case-law/anti-doctrinal law, always opposed to ‘civil law’, seen as doctrinal/non case-law.
FREDA, DOLORES
core   +1 more source

Arctic marine climate of the early nineteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The climate of the early nineteenth century is likely to have been significantly cooler than that of today, as it was a period of low solar activity (the Dalton minimum) and followed a series of large volcanic eruptions.
Allan, R   +5 more
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Un site d’exploitation saunière depuis la Protohistoire dans les Pyrénées. Le collège des Trois-Vallées et la Fontaine Salée à Salies-du-Salat

open access: yesArchéopages, 2011
Excavations at the site of the Collège des Trois Vallées provided the opportunity to examine the history of the Fontaine Salée at Salies-du-Salat which was first exploited as a salt production site and then as a spa. The salt spring was the reason people
Jean-François Chopin
doaj   +1 more source

Forgotten feminists: the Federation of British Professional and Business Women, 1933-1969 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Using archive documents of the British Federation of Business and Professional Women (BFBPW) this article explores the role of this early business organisation in campaigning for feminist issues in the post-war period.
Perriton, L.
core   +1 more source

L’archéologie préventive et la seconde ligne de tramway d’Orléans. Du diagnostic au projet de publication

open access: yesArchéopages, 2016
The second tramway line in Orléans crosses the city and part of its suburbs from east to west, as well as little-explored areas. The diagnostics, which in particular uncovered the ancient Orléans-Tours road, a medieval road and an ancient and Merovingian
Pascal Joyeux
doaj   +1 more source

Universities and Professions in the Early Modern Period [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article brings together old and new ideas and information to provide a different perspective than has so far prevailed upon the relationship between the universities and the professions in the early modern period. It focuses not only upon the direct
O'Day, Rosemary
core  

On the causes of the African slave trade [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper offers an integrated analysis of the forces shaping the emergence of the African slave trade over the early modern period. We focus our attention on two questions.
Acemoglu   +50 more
core   +1 more source

The role and implications of mammalian cellular circadian entrainment

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
At their most fundamental level, mammalian circadian rhythms occur inside every individual cell. To tell the correct time, cells must align (or ‘entrain’) their circadian rhythm to the external environment. In this review, we highlight how cells entrain to the major circadian cues of light, feeding and temperature, and the implications this has for our
Priya Crosby
wiley   +1 more source

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