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Prehistory, Playhouses and the Public: London's Planning Archaeology

Internet Archaeology, 2021
Three recent examples of public benefit following archaeological discoveries in London are presented, alongside an explanation of the policy context that supports them. The examples are provided from the perspective of planning archaeologists, who advise
Adam Single, Louise Davies
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HISTORICAL FUTURES

History and Theory, 2021
ABSTRACTThis article outlines the agenda of a collective research project that aims to explore modalities of historical futures that constitute our current historical condition. To present the collective work adequately, we have teamed up with History and Theory and initiated a long‐term serial publishing experiment.
Simon, Zoltán Boldizsár, Tamm, Marek
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Making LiGHT Work of Large Area Survey? Developing Approaches to Rapid Archaeological Mapping and the Creation of Systematic National-scaled Heritage Data

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2020
The characteristics and form of heritage data are fundamental to its utility in a range of applications, particularly so for heritage agencies who have a remit in management, policy, and the creation and curation of national databases of monuments, sites,
Dave Cowley, Łukasz Banaszek, George Geddes, Angela Gannon, Mike Middleton, Kirsty Millican   +5 more
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Climate Change and Archaeology. An Introduction

Internet Archaeology, 2022
Anthropogenic climate change is already affecting our environment. Climate projections show that in Europe we can expect: changes in rainfall, with increased drought and desertification, as well as increases in intensity and frequency of rainfall ...
Hannah Fluck, Kate Guest
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The Decline and Fall of Materia Medica and the Rise of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Veterinary Medicine

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Materia Medica is a Latin term, relating to the history of pharmacy. It describes the sources (vegetable, animal and mineral), nature, preparation, and properties of substances or mixtures of substances, which were used as remedies for the treatment of ...
Peter Lees, Wolfgang Bäumer, Pierre-Louis Toutain, Pierre-Louis Toutain   +3 more
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Enhancing the deployment of solar energy in Norwegian high-sensitive built environments: challenges and barriers—a scoping review

Frontiers in Built Environment, 2023
Heritage and historical buildings often face climate vulnerabilities, decay of technical performance and energy inefficiency that threaten their use and consequently their long-term preservation.
Tahmineh Akbarinejad, Esther Machlein, Chiara Bertolin, Gabriele Lobaccaro, Alenka Temeljotov Salaj   +4 more
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Developing Climate Risk Assessments for World Heritage: the Climate Vulnerability Index

Internet Archaeology, 2022
Climate change is recognised by ICOMOS and the IUCN as the fastest growing threat to World Heritage (WH) properties. The Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) was first piloted at the Natural WH property of Shark Bay, Western Australia, in 2018; the first ...
Rebecca H. Jones, Mairi H. Davies, Jon C. Day, Scott F. Heron   +3 more
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Understanding Data Reuse and Barriers to Reuse of Archaeological Data. A quality-in-use methodological approach Kristy-Lee Seaton, Rimvydas Laužikas, Peter McKeague, Vera Moitinho de Almeida, Keith May and Holly Wright

Internet Archaeology, 2023
Over the last decade, innovation has centred on making archaeological data more interoperable, increasing the discoverability of data through integrated cross-search and facilitating knowledge creation by combining data in new ways.
Kristy-Lee Seaton, Rimvydas Laužikas, Peter McKeague, Vera Moitinho de Almeida, Keith May, Holly Wright   +5 more
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Recent Investigations at Two Long Barrows and Reflections on their Context in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site and Environs

Internet Archaeology, 2018
Recent geophysical surveys and excavations at Druid's Lodge Estate, in fields west of the Diamond Wood in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SWHS), have confirmed the existence of the Winterbourne Stoke 71 long barrow and discovered a new long barrow ...
David Roberts, Andrew Valdez-Tullett, Peter Marshall, Jonathan Last, Alastair Oswald, A. Barclay, B. Bishop, E. Dunbar, Alice Forward, Matt Law, N. Linford, Paul Linford, Inés López-Dóriga, A. Manning, Andrew Payne, Ruth Pelling, A. Powell, Paula J. Reimer, Michael Russell, F. Small, Sharon Soutar, J. Vallender, Eleanor Winter, Fay Worley   +23 more
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Range contractions of the world's large carnivores [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2017
The majority of the world's terrestrial large carnivores have undergone substantial range contractions and many of these species are currently threatened with extinction.
Christopher Wolf, William J. Ripple
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