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Jebel Moya (Sudan): new dates from a mortuary complex at the southern Meroitic frontier [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper proposes a new chronology for the burial complex at Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. It reassesses the body of evidence from Sir Henry Wellcome's original 1911–1914 excavations in order to place the site within a firm chronological framework ...
Brass, M, Schwenniger, J-L
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Oleg Kotlyarov, a mammalogist, experimenter, and researcher of variability of rodents [PDF]

open access: yesNovitates Theriologicae, 2022
Oleg Kotlyarov represents the school of pheneticists, which is unique for the Ukrainian mammalogy, who study not only the variability of fine osteological characters generalized into standard morphotypes, but also carry out experiments on their heredity ...
Igor Zagorodniuk
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A traitor's death? The identity of a drawn, hanged and quartered man from Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Analysis of a set of bones redeposited in a medieval abbey graveyard showed that the individual had been beheaded and chopped up, and this in turn suggested one of England's more gruesome I execution practices. Since quartering was generally reserved for
Lewis, Mary Elizabeth
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Fetal age at death estimation on dry bone: testing the applicability of equations developed on a radiographic sample

open access: yesRevista Argentina de Antropología Biológica, 2019
The paucity of identified skeletal collections that include fetuses entails the need to pursue unconventional approaches and resources in order to investigate fetal anatomical variation. Radiographic analyses are being considered as a good alternative to
Cristiana Carneiro   +4 more
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Structured-Light 3D Scanning as a Tool for Creating a Digital Collection of Modern and Fossil Cetacean Skeletons (Natural History Museum, University of Pisa)

open access: yesHeritage, 2023
The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa hosts one of the most important osteological collections of cetaceans all over Europe, as well as a conspicuous paleontological collection, including several holotypes of Archaeoceti (archaic whales ...
Marco Merella   +7 more
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The archaeology of human- dog relations in Northwest Alaska [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Some 1500 years ago, on a gravel spit extending into the Chukchi Sea, people living at the site of Ipiutak buried several members of their community ...
Hill, Erica
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Kryvolapov Volodymyr Pavlovych, mammalogist and chief curator of the Museum of Nature at Kharkiv University [PDF]

open access: yesNovitates Theriologicae, 2022
Volodymyr Kryvolapov (1951–2015) worked at the Museum of Nature during 1976–2015, including as chief curator since 1988. He also worked as a taxidermist, participated in the creation of many skin-mounts for the exhibition and study-skins for scientific ...
Yurii Iliukhin
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New Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) sauropod remains from the Valtos Formation, Isle of Skye, Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The discovery of a sauropod tooth and a single sauropod footprint from the Valtos Formation supplements our knowledge of these dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye.
Clark, Neil D.L., Gavin, Patrick
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Evaluating osteological ageing from digital data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
YesAge at death estimation of human skeletal remains is one of the key issues in constructing a biological profile both in forensic and archaeological contexts. The traditional adult osteological methods evaluate macroscopically the morphological changes
Acsádi G   +9 more
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A New Genus of Miniaturized and Pug-Nosed Gecko from South America (Sphaerodactylidae: Gekkota) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Sphaerodactyl geckos comprise five genera distributed across Central and South America and the Caribbean. We estimated phylogenetic relationships among sphaerodactyl genera using both separate and combined analyses of seven nuclear genes.
Bauer, Aaron M.   +4 more
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