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Tamm-Horsfall protein in recurrent calcium kidney stone formers with positive family history: abnormalities in urinary excretion, molecular structure and function [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Tamm-Horsfall protein (THP) powerfully inhibits calcium oxalate crystal aggregation, but structurally abnormal THPs from recurrent calcium stone formers may promote crystal aggregation.
Hess, Bernhard   +3 more
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Preliminary analysis of forager stone technology at Little Muck Shelter: Pre- to contact levels

open access: yesKoedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science
Studies into the Later Stone Age sequence of the Mapungubwe region show several important changes in forager toolkits. Notable shifts include the appearance of ceramics, glass beads and metal, and changes in stone tool preference patterns in some ...
Justin A. Pentz   +2 more
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The stratigraphic context, chronology, and cultural sequence at Little Muck Shelter, southern Africa

open access: yesSouthern African Field Archaeology
Hall and Smith’s (2000) excavations at Little Muck Shelter in the late 1990s uncovered a Later Stone Age sequence purported to span the last 2000 years.
Tim Forssman   +4 more
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Foreign Impact and Local Creativity. The Case of Late Bronze Age Seals from Aegean Anatolia [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Hercynia, 2022
Late Bronze Age seals and sealings from Aegean Anatolia (the western part of western Anatolia) are a very heterogeneous collection of finds. Especially widespread are seals belonging to the Aegean tradition, including earlier hard stone seals and later ...
Magda Pieniążek
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Some Early Bronze Age stone moulds from Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper presents details of a number of previously unpublished or relatively inaccessibly published Early Bronze Age stone moulds from Scotland. Viewed in the wider context of Early Bronze Age metalworking in Britain, they are important additions to ...
Cowie, Trevor, O'Connor, Brendan
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Lithics of the North African Middle Stone Age: assumptions, evidence and future directions

open access: yes, 2019
North Africa features some of the earliest manifestations of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, as well as early examples of complex culture and the long distance transfer of exotic raw materials.
Scerri, E., Spinapolica, E.
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Local availability and long-range trade: the worked stone assemblage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Inter disciplinary study of major excavation assemblage from Norse settlement site in Orkney.
Barrett, J.   +6 more
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Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon : an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Acknowledgements We would like to thank Laura Whitehouse, John Carman, Oliver Grimm, Julie Lund, Bjørnar Olsen, two anonymous reviewers, and the editor for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper.
Collard, Mark   +2 more
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Unmasking the forgotten foragers of the Mapungubwe landscape

open access: yesKoedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science
The middle Limpopo Valley is best known because it was here that Mapungubwe arose, southern Africa’s first state-level society, appearing around AD 1220.
Tim Forssman
doaj   +1 more source

Characterizing Evulsion in the Later Stone Age Maghreb: age, sex and effects on mastication [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper assesses the earliest evidence for widespread dental modification in Northwest Africa. The intentional modification of teeth has implications for an individual’s appearance, sense of identity and perceived status.
De Groote, I, Humphrey, LT
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