Stones and Bones: Catholic Responses to the 1812 Collapse of the Mission Church of Capistrano [PDF]
, 2017 This essay delves into the 1812 collapse of the Great Stone Church at California’s Mission of San Juan Capistrano and its aftermath to consider how early modern Catholics in the greater Iberian world approached the material remains of ruined churches ...
Vélez, Karin
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Visibility studies in archaeology: a review and case study [PDF]
, 2004 This paper describes the history and current state of archaeological visibility studies. The first part is a survey of both GIS (geographic information systems) and non-GIS studies of visibility by archaeologists, which demonstrates how advances in GIS ...
Lake, MW, Woodman, PE
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, 1984 Horses were eaten in the Old Stone Age, broken and ridden or used for farm animals in later periods, mounted by knights and hitched to coaches and buggies. Indeed, we still measure power in horsepower.
Ashley, Leonard R.N.
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Early Scottish Monasteries and Prehistory: A Preliminary Dialogue [PDF]
, 2009 Reflecting oil the diversity of monastic attributes found in the east and west of Britain, the author proposes that prehistoric ritual practice was influential on monastic form. An argument is advanced that this was not based solely oil inspiration Front
Carey John +14 more
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Southern African Field ArchaeologyMicrolithic backed tools are a key feature of the Later Stone Age late Holocene period in southern Africa. These tools were widely distributed and produced in various geometric shapes and sizes.
Precious Chiwara-Maenzanise +2 more
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Eighteenth-century visions of the Stone Age
Sjuttonhundratal, 2021 Archaeological concepts of prehistory and the Stone Age are rooted in nineteenth-century scientific discoveries, which extended the human past much further back in time than was previously thought.
Liisa Kunnas-Pusa
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African-European contacts in the Kongo Kingdom (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries): new archaeological insights from Ngongo Mbata (Lower Congo, DRC) [PDF]
, 2015 Ngongo Mbata, the main and most affluent center of the Kongo kingdom’s Mbata province in the 17th century, is well known from the historical sources, but virtually unexplored in archaeological publications.
Bostoen, Koen +7 more
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Seeking shelter: Later Stone Age hunters, gatherers and fishers of Olieboomspoort in the western Waterberg, south of the Limpopo [PDF]
, 2008 The Olieboomspoort (OBP) shelter is central to this reconstruction of the Later Stone Age (LSA) history in the lowlands of the Limpopo in the Waterberg.
Van der Ryst, Maria Magdalena
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The earliest iron-producing communities in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa : new insights from the Bu, Kindu and Mantsetsi sites [PDF]
, 2019 In 2015 the KongoKing research project team excavated the Bu, Kindu and Mantsetsi sites situated in the Kongo-Central Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). All are part of the Kay Ladio Group.
Beeckman, Hans +4 more
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Trauma and violence in the Later Stone Age of southern Africa
South African Medical Journal, 2012 Antemortem and perimortem fractures in skeletons recovered from Later Stone Age burials in southern Africa demonstrate that people were, on occasion, the victims of severe trauma attributable to interpersonal violence.Case studies are presented of cranial vault depression fractures on 4 different individuals and a young adult female who had 2 bone ...
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