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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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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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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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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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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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PLACE‐FRAMING URBANITY: The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Narratives, visuality and symbolic representations are increasingly important in contemporary urban planning and development. This article seeks to understand how urbanity, one of the key goals of Helsinki's recent planning, has been constructed in the Kalasatama regeneration area. The construction of urban image and identity is viewed as soft
Tuomas Ilmavirta
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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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Towards the Democratisation of Care? Insights From Co‐Governance in Local Welfare in Spain and Italy
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The organisation and distribution of care responsibilities represent a central issue in contemporary welfare debates. Although welfare systems have progressively sought to socialise care related risks tackling distribution's inequality, the organisation of care services received less attention.
Francesca Donati +1 more
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Bronze figurines of Mercury-Thoth from Albania
Dissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös NominataeAlong with other aspects of society, Illyrian religion was influenced by the Roman world during the first centuries AD. As a result, Mercury became the Roman god most represented in bronze figurines found within the modern territory of Albania.
Sabina Veseli
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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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