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Opaque ancient K2O–PbO–SiO2 glass of the Southern Song Dynasty with fluorite dendrites and its fabrication

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2019
Here we first report a piece of K2O–PbO–SiO2 ancient glass opacified by fluorite dendrites with archaeological background. This piece of glass was excavated from Nanhai I shipwreck, a merchant ship once heading for Southeast Asia, but sinking near ...
Yihang Zhou   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Validating a Target‐Enrichment Design for Capturing Uniparental Haplotypes in Ancient Domesticated Animals

open access: yesMolecular Ecology Resources, Volume 25, Issue 7, October 2025.
ABSTRACT In the last three decades, DNA sequencing of ancient animal osteological assemblages has become an important tool complementing standard archaeozoological approaches to reconstruct the history of animal domestication. However, osteological assemblages of key archaeological contexts are not always available or do not necessarily preserve enough
Kuldeep D. More   +64 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colonizing Knowledge: New Museology as Museology of News

open access: yesPrace Etnograficzne, 2020
The paper examines the impact and influence of the Peter Vergo’s book The New Museology and the ways it colonized the knowledge already existing outside United Kingdom. It discusses the concepts that existed before the 1989 book following the development of La Nouvelle Museologie and ecomuseums, ideas spread at conferences, symposiums and round tables,
openaire   +2 more sources

Safeguarding Traditional Villages in China: The Role and Challenges of Rural Heritage Preservation

open access: yesBuilt Heritage, 2019
Since the reform and opening-up policy of 1978, China has established the double-track inventory system of rural heritage preservation to cope with the impact of rapid urbanisation on rural areas.
Mengyuan Zhou, Songfeng Chu, Xiaofan Du
doaj   +1 more source

Synecdemus Novus: Presenting the Dataset of Human Activities on Crete (201–1204 C.E.)

open access: yesJournal of Open Archaeology Data
Synecdemus Novus is a dataset of published archaeological sites, buildings, and associated markers located in Crete and dating between the Late Roman Period (3rd century C.E.) and the Venetian domination of the island (1204 C.E.). The dataset, consisting
Vera Klontza-Jaklova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lithic raw material procurement in the Moravian Neolithic: the search for extra-regional networks

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2009
The study of lithic raw material procurement can contribute to the study of ancient networks. Petrographic analysis combined with systematic mapping of raw material outcrops has been conducted in Moravia and adjacent territories by A.
Martin Kuča   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

What is museology?

open access: yesNordisk Museologi
This article is an edited version of an inaugural lecture as professor of museology at Aarhus University, Denmark, on September 22, 2023. It targeted colleagues from Danish museums and universities and students.
openaire   +2 more sources

A qualitative survey for the academic libraries in the throes of a great recession

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2016
Over the last years the economic crisis affected the wide range of activities and services that Academic Libraries provide. On the other hand the demand for such services is increasing due to the reduced individual income of the librarie’s users.
Kostagiolas Petros   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Function and behaviour: use-wear evidence from Upper Paleolithic tools in southern Shanxi Province, North China

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2016
Lithic use-wear analysis has become a principal approach for interpreting the function of stone tools and inferring human behaviour. This study presents the results of use-wear analysis on lithic tools excavated from the Upper Paleolithic sites of ...
Hong Chen, Yiren Wang, Chun Chen
doaj   +1 more source

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