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Gold Prices During and After the Great Recession [PDF]
, 2013 Gold, a highly valuable precious metal, has many practical uses that span multiple industries. Historically, one of the primary uses of gold has been to make objects, such as jewelry.
Hergt, Brian
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Functionalizing Conductive Diamond: Recent Advance in Fabrication, Modifications, and Applications
Carbon Energy, EarlyView.This review highlights recent advancements in the synthesis, modification, and electrochemical applications of conductive diamond, particularly boron‐doped diamond (BDD). It emphasizes progress in fabrication methods, including CVD and HPHT, and explores modifications such as doping, surface terminations, and composite design, enabling significant ...
Ning Linghu, Xin Jiang, Jing Xu
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A Review of Bioarcheological Investigations in Iron Age Cambodia
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Archeological research within Cambodia is quite extensive, with significant projects led by both Cambodian archeologists and international researchers alike. Many of these projects have uncovered human skeletal remains. This article reviews archeological human skeletal studies in Cambodia, synthesizing published and unpublished data, primarily
Sophorn Nhoem, Kate Domett, Nigel Chang
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Yemaya, No. 26, November 2007 [PDF]
, 2007 Asia/ India - Restricting Lives and Livelihoods. North America/ Mexico - Empowering Agenda?. Africa/ South Africa - Aren’t We Missing Something?. Africa/ Zanzibar - Winning Strategies.
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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The Provenance of Silver in the Viking‐Age Hoard From Bedale, North Yorkshire
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The acquisition of silver was a key motive propelling the Viking expansion out of Scandinavia; identifying the sources of Viking silver during the early part of the Viking Age can provide critical insights into the relative significance of western European and eastern, Islamic wealth in the Viking expansion.
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Aesthetic Aspects of Padung-padung as Reference in Design Development of Karo Traditional Jewelry [PDF]
, 2015 Karo of North Sumatra as part of many tribes in Indonesia known has rich variety of arts and cultures. Among them is a unique jewelry named padung- padung.
Ariani, Ariani
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
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Britain, industry and perceptions of China : Matthew Boulton, 'useful knowledge' and the Macartney Embassy to China 1792–94 [PDF]
, 2006 Global history has debated the emergence of a divergence in economic growth between China and the West during the eighteenth century. The Macartney Embassy, 1792–94, the first British embassy to China, occurring as it did at the end of the eighteenth ...
Berg, Maxine
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CULTURAL FUSION IN LATE BRONZE AGE GOLDWORK: DIADEMS AND MOUTH‐PIECES FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.Summary This study investigates recently discovered gold diadems and mouth‐pieces from seven chamber tombs and one shaft tomb at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke, dating from the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC. The chamber tombs, all containing multi‐generational burials, yielded a variety of ornaments, which are analysed in ...
Peter M. Fischer
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