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The microstratigraphy of middens: capturing daily routine in rubbish at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Microstratigraphy — the sequencing of detailed biological signals on site — is an important new approach being developed in the Çatalhöyük project. Here the authors show how microscopic recording of the strata and content of widespread middens on the ...
Almond, Matthew J.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Fiery Eyes of a Maenad: Origin Determination of Faceted Garnet Eye Inlays in a Roman Bronze Bust From Southern Tyrol

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A limpet's eye view of post‐glacial isostasy: fixed biological indicators provide new sea‐level index points for the Mid‐Holocene relative highstand in eastern Northern Ireland

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Bioerosional scars made by limpets (Patella) on a cliff in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, indicate a Mid‐Holocene RSL of +7.8±0.55 m relative to local mid‐tide level today. This is higher than previous empirical data for the region and extrapolated levels from raised shorelines in Scotland but consistent with some recent GIA models.
Michael J. Simms, Paula J. Reimer
wiley   +1 more source

Cohons La Vergentière (Haute-Marne) : révision du mobilier céramique néolithique

open access: yesRevue Archéologique de l’Est
On the edges of a geographical area still relatively undocumented for the Neolithic period, the site of Cohons La Vergentière presents a choice place to begin a new exploration of the area, but first a review of the ceramics found during the excavations ...
Laura Redon
doaj   +1 more source

Middle Neolithic Absolute Dating In North Croatia – New Research

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Hereditati, 2018
Over the last 15 years, new research brought to light several new key pieces of information regarding the middle Neolithic in north Croatia. For the first time the LBK site Donji Miholjac – Vrancari was excavated south of Drava river which lead to the ...
Katarina Botić
doaj   +1 more source

Constructing National Identity Through Museums in Early Republican Turkey: Historical Narrative, Spatial Transformation, Exhibiting Modernity, and Monumentality

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
wiley   +1 more source

L’habitat lorrain du Néolithique moyen et final de Saint-Julien-lès-Metz en Moselle

open access: yesGallia Préhistoire
The preventive archaeological excavation of Saint-Julien-lès-Metz took place some twenty years ago, and the artefacts were completely restudied following the publication of this relatively well-preserved site.
Véronique Brunet   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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