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Depicting the gods: metal figurines in Roman Britain
Internet Archaeology, 2012 This article introduces the types of figurines found in Roman Britain. Over 1000 figurines of Late Iron Age or Roman date are known from Britain, but there has been no consideration of the group as a whole.
Emma Durham
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Current Swedish ArchaeologyAnthropomorphic clay figurines comprise an enigmatic category of finds associated with Pitted Ware culture sites during the latter part of the middle Neolithic period (c. 2900–2300 BC) in the Baltic Sea region.
Tobias Lindström
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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Tyragetia, 2018 : Figurines of the early Bronze Age from burial mounds, including ones of the Serezliivka type, have specific morphological and stylistic features, which do not allow them to be associated with Trypillia or Usatovo cultures.
Natalia Burdo
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La collection des figurines en terre cuite du Musée National d’Athènes : formation et muséographie
Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2018 Cet article traite de la formation de la collection des figurines en terre cuite du Musée National Archéologique d’Athènes, vers la fin du 19ème siècle, et de l’enrichissement du fonds initial dès lors.
Christina Avronidaki +1 more
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Journal of Neolithic ArchaeologyThe beginning of the 5th millennium cal BC saw profound changes, with the disintegration of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) into smaller post-LBK cultural phenomena.
Valeska Becker +3 more
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Arrangement of Vinča culture figurines: a study of social structure and organisation
Documenta Praehistorica, 2011 In this working paper, I present a unique assemblage of 43 figurines and 11 miniature tool models discovered at the Late Vin≠a culture site at Crkvine, Stubline in Serbia. The distinctiveness of this find is that it was discovered in it original context,
Adam N. Crnobrnja
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Care‐Based Disruption, Creative Practice and Collaborative Empathetic Histories
History, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum essay examines the value of collaboration when creatively engaging with history as a means of developing empathy, care, and understanding. Creative and collaborative histories provide space to address the harmful misconceptions and preconceptions entangled in capitalist and colonial narratives.
SIERRA MCKINNEY, KATHERINE COOK
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