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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.Abstract The transition from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Late Glacial marked a shift from the cold conditions of Greenland Stadial‐2 (GS‐2) to the warmer phases of Greenland Interstadial‐1 (GI‐1), enabling the reoccupation of Alpine regions by Late Palaeolithic hunter‐gatherers.
Mahym Amanova +2 more
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Counting Sheep: Potential Applications of DNA Analysis to the Study of Medieval Parchment Production [PDF]
, 2011 This chapter follows up on several preliminary tests that have shown that DNA survives in medieval parchment manuscript leaves and may be extracted and analyzed, and offers suggestions for defining and implementing future genetic studies of parchment.
Stinson, Timothy
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"So bigge as bigge may be": tracking size and shape change in domestic livestock in London (AD 1220-1900) [PDF]
, 2013 This study presents the analysis of 7966 individual cattle, sheep, pig and domestic hen bone measurements from 105 sites excavated in London dating to the period AD 1220–1900. Multiple episodes of size change are identified, although the speed and timing
Holmes, Matilda +2 more
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Land Use Transformation and Climate Resilience in Smart Cities: Role of ICT in Modern Urban Planning
Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern urban planning is experiencing a transition from traditional planning to the integration of information technology, which defines the concept of a “smart city”. The study analyses the evolution of urban planning practices with an emphasis on the role of engineering and architecture in the process of urbanization, the transition to the ...
Dariusz Cichoń
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Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Scabiosa trenta Hacq. was first described in 1782 by Balthasar Hacquet, with its specific epithet referring to the Trenta Valley in Slovenia. Since then, S. trenta has been the focus of numerous mountaineering and botanical expeditions, particularly by the alpinist Julius Kugy during the Golden Age of Alpinism, a period in the second half of 19th ...
Valentina Boscariol +5 more
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All the colours of the rainbow. [PDF]
, 2014 Our perception of colour has always been a source of fascination, so it's little wonder that studies of the phenomenon date back hundreds of years.
G Dinkova-Bruun +9 more
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka +7 more
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J@rgonia, 2020 A book review of: Peake, Rose-Marie & Riikka-Maria Rosenberg. Korsetti ja Krusifiksi: Vaikutusvaltaisia Barokin ajan Pariisittaria. Helsinki: Gaudeamus. 2019. 351 sivua. ISBN 978-952-345-034-9.
Ojala-Fulwood, Maija
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'Mamlukisation' between social theory and social practice: an essay on reflexivity, state formation, and the late medieval sultanate of Cairo [PDF]
, 2015 This working paper is a reflexive essay that tries to think with and beyond one of the basic assumptions upon which the field of late medieval Syro-Egyptian ‘Mamluk’ studies is built: the idea that all late medieval Syro-Egyptian objects of study are by ...
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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