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Observational evidence for the origin of X-ray sources in globular clusters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Low-mass X-ray binaries, recycled pulsars, cataclysmic variables and magnetically active binaries are observed as X-ray sources in globular clusters. We discuss the classification of these systems, and find that some presumed active binaries are brighter
Cees Bassa   +11 more
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THE ARCHETYPE "STONE" AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE BASIS OF COMMUNICATIVE QUALITIES IN THE SPATIAL PLASTIC IMAGE OF A BUILDING

open access: yesАрхитектон, 2021
The article consistently considers architecture as social communication and the building’s spatial plastic image as part of the communication process. Interpretations of the architectural archetype are reviewed; a general understanding of the phenomenon ...
Dedov Victor A., Kokorina Elena V.
doaj   +1 more source

GIANT STONE BUILDINGS (II) - PYRAMIDS, THE MOST FAMOUS MONUMENTS IN THE WORLD [PDF]

open access: yese-Zbornik. Elektronički Zbornik Radova Građevinskog Fakulteta, 2023
Megalithic architecture is related to a series of ancient stone monuments of giant dimensions, which were constructed using almost untreated individual stones or stones grouped into certain structures, which was the subject of the previous paper of these
Krešimir Šaravanja   +2 more
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The influence of religious and cosmological beliefs on the solar architecture of the ancient world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the earliest civilizations of the Ancient World, sun worship developed in parallel with an understanding of the movement of the stars. That was the origin of an architecture that expressed a number of religious and cosmological beliefs.
Fumadó Alsina, Joan Lluís   +2 more
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Megaliths, monuments and materiality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Stones, and especially the arrangement of large stones in relation to one another, have long been the focus of attention in megalith studies, a concern reflected in the name itself. It is, however, a blinkered view.
Darvill, Timothy
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The barec of "Piani del Monte Avaro" (Bergamo, Italy) [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2018
This article outlines some archaeoastronomical results about an Iron Age site gained during the "Practical Archeoastronomy Course" held the 24th and 25th of June 2017 by Prof. Adriano Gaspani.
Gastaldelli, A.
doaj   +1 more source

Imagining the Forces of Life and the Cosmos in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This chapter suggests that, building on Ingold's work, we can use Kelabit ideas to encourage us to think further about the nature of individuation within a continuous flow of power and life through the cosmos.
Janowski, Monica
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Mégalithisme à Botko (Littoral Cameroun) (VIIIè Siècle AD) : Analyses Thermiques Préliminaires et Disposition Rituelle [PDF]

open access: yesVestiges: Traces of Record, 2022
The Botko site is a Cameroonian megalithic site that has been studied since 2013. Because of its location outside the known area of Cameroonian megalithism, it questions the idea that the Grasslands and the northern regions of Cameroon are the only ...
Charlie Ngo Mboua
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Testigos de piedra: estelas armadas entre el Tajo internacional y el Duero, Península Ibérica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Pocos territorios en Europa reúnen la concentración de estelas en piedra que se documentan entre el Tajo y el Duero. La arqueología asegura amplias posibilidades extractivas, con un claro centro neurálgico en el actual distrito de Castelo Branco ...
Balbín Behrmann, Rodrigo de   +3 more
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Grobowce megalityczne na przedpolu Sudetów [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A cemetery of megalithic long barrows of the so-called Kujavia type was discovered in autumn of 1995 near Muszkowice in the foothills of the Sudety Mountains. It consists of 6 trapezoidal structures made of stone and sand.
Wojciechowski, Włodzimierz
core   +2 more sources

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