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Torques from the 3rd century BCE Scythian graves in the North-West Black Sea region [PDF]
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2022 One representative of these personal ornaments was found in a catacomb grave on the left bank of the Lower Danube, the other two were recovered in graves on the left bank of the Lower Dniester.
O.A. Zakordonets
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Depigmented wing patch size is a condition-dependent indicator of viability in male collared flycatchers [PDF]
, 2003 Honesty of sexual advertisement is thought to be the result of signalling costs. Because production costs of depigmented plumage patches are probably very low, their role as honest signals of individual quality has been questioned. Costs of bearing these
Garamszegi, László Zsolt +2 more
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‘The Catholic Florist’: flowers and deviance in the mid-nineteenth century Church of England [PDF]
, 2011 The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw a dramatic change in the appearance of many ecclesiastical interiors due to the growing popularity of Catholic revivalism in the Church of England.
Janes, Dominic
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Ornaments reveal resistance of North European cultures to the spread of farming.
PLoS ONE, 2015 The transition to farming is the process by which human groups switched from hunting and gathering wild resources to food production. Understanding how and to what extent the spreading of farming communities from the Near East had an impact on indigenous
Solange Rigaud +2 more
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Peer Community Journal, 2022 Personal ornaments manufactured on marine and fossil shell are a significant element of Upper Palaeolithic symbolic material culture, and are often found at considerable distances from Pleistocene coastlines or relevant fossil deposits.
Rigaud, Solange +4 more
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A Very Early “Fashion”: Neolithic Stone Bracelets from a Mediterranean Perspective
Open Archaeology, 2021 Ring-shaped objects, used mainly as bracelets, appear in the archaeological record associated with the first farming societies around the Mediterranean area.
Martínez-Sevilla Francisco +4 more
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Personal ornaments, Neolithic groups and social identities: some insights into Northern Italy
Documenta Praehistorica, 2012 Personal ornaments are often used to display information about the person wearing them – identity, group or individual, status, current role. In this paper, I analyse ornaments from osseous raw materials from Early and Middle Neolithic sites in Serbia ...
Roberto Micheli
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Open Archaeology, 2023 This article studies the discoid Didacna sp. shell beads discovered at Kaylu, a Middle Holocene burial site located in Southern Turkmenistan. Microscopic, morphometric, spectrometric, and SEM analyses were carried out on the material to identify how the ...
Rigaud Solange +10 more
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Japan: The Earliest Evidence of Complex Technology for Creating Durable Coloured Goods
Open Archaeology, 2018 The invention of lacquer technology is significant in history as the first evidence of the use of an organic substance in creating durable coloured objects.
Matsumoto Naoko
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The excavation of Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand - A report on the first three seasons [PDF]
, 2014 Non Ban Jak is a large, moated site located in the upper Mun Valley, Northeast Thailand. Excavations over three seasons in 2011-4 have revealed a sequence of occupation that covers the final stage of the local Iron Age.
Cameron, Judith +7 more
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