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Gold mining in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, from New Kingom to medieval times. New insight from the Samut district [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2020 Gold was plentiful in Egypt and had been used by the Pharaohs from the earliest times as a means of asserting their power. But the history and archaeology of the mining and production of Egyptian gold is a lot less known than the splendour of the country’
Bérangère Redon +2 more
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‘The Military Mirror of Kai’: Swordsmanship and a Medieval Text in Early Modern Japan [PDF]
, 2014 Swordsmanship emerged as a new field of knowledge in early modern Japan (1600–1868), a time of relative peace. During the most violent periods of Japanese history, the latter half of the medieval period (1185–1600), samurai conducted warfare mostly on ...
Wert, Michael
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Recent palaeoenvironmental evidence for the processing of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) in eastern England during the medieval period [PDF]
, 2005 [FIRST PARAGRAPH] Hemp (Cannabissativa L.)— whose origins as a domesticated plant probably lie in C.Asia — has been cultivated in England since at least a.d.800 (and before this perhaps in the Roman Period), mainly for its ¿bre, which was used to make ...
Bunting, M.J. +5 more
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Integrating whole‐bone and regional analyses to understand human scapular growth
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates ontogenetic changes in human scapular morphology using three‐dimensional geometric morphometrics with whole‐bone and region‐specific analyses. The aim is to evaluate whether the scapula follows a regular developmental pattern and whether its functionally distinct components, the scapular spine (SS) and glenoid fossa ...
Azahara Salazar‐Fernández +3 more
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Archéopages, 2010 Christianized since the fourth century, Ethiopia is one of the world's oldest Christian regions, with a particular dynamism in medieval times. Nevertheless, little is known in archaeological terms about the period between the thirteenth and fifteenth ...
Marie-Laure Derat +3 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The preauricular sulcus has long been debated as a pelvic feature variably attributed to obstetric stress, ligamentous traction, and broader biomechanical processes. To clarify its determinants, we analyzed 409 adult individuals from three archeological and one early modern skeletal collection from the Iberian Peninsula, integrating graded ...
Rebeca García‐González +5 more
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Une maison mixte médiévale à Roissy-en-France
Archéopages, 2013 Medieval house at Roissy-en-France with a lean-to used as a pigsty, reminding us of the close relationship between humans and pigs up to the time of improvement in hygiene at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
Jean-Yves Dufour
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A Zooarchaeological and Molecular Assessment of Ancient Chicken Remains from Russia
Поволжская археология, 2021 We here conduct ancient DNA analyses on 58 chicken bones from 15 archaeological sites (from the 9th to the 18th century AD) across the Volga region, the Leningrad region, the Pskov region, and the north of the Krasnoyarsk region to investigate genetic ...
Ophélie Lebrasseur +7 more
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Imperial Electioneering: The Evolution of the Election in the Holy Roman Empire from the Collapse of the Carolingians to the Rise of the Ottonians [PDF]
, 2014 The Holy Roman Empire had an electoral process for choosing the Holy Roman Emperor. The heritage of this unique medieval institution can be traced through from Charlemagne empire to the Ottonians.
Gentilucci, Louis T.
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a strong framework for the detection and classification of Submerged Cultural Heritage Assets (SCHA) in shallow marine environments using the integration of multibeam echosounder and airborne LiDAR bathymetry with object‐based image analysis and fuzzy logic–based classification.
Łukasz Janowski +4 more
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