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Geoarchaeological evidence of the AD 1642 Yellow River flood that destroyed Kaifeng, a former capital of dynastic China

open access: yes, 2020
Rising global temperatures will increase the number of extreme weather events, creating new challenges for cities around the world. Archaeological research on the destruction and subsequent reoccupation of ancient cities has the potential to reveal ...
Cao, J.   +11 more
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La villa des « Vernes » à La Boisse (Ain) : contribution des fouilles récentes à la compréhensionde l’évolution d’un établissement rural antique et de son espace funéraire

open access: yesRevue Archéologique de l’Est, 2011
As part of the construction of a motorway interchange in the municipality of La Boisse (Ain), about twenty kilometres north-east of Lyon, a preventive archaeology project carried out in 2005–2006 furnished additional information about a villa built in ...
Tony Silvino   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Folded, layered textiles from a Bronze Age pit pyre excavated from Over Barrow 2, Cambridgeshire, England. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The textiles from Over Barrow, Cambridgeshire, England present the opportunity to examine the burial practices at the end of the Early Bronze Age. They were excavated from a pit pyre cremation along with cremated bone, a bone needle/pin and two small ...
Harris, Susanna
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The sky from the high terrace. study on the orientation of the Ziqqurat in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The ziqqurat is the symbol of the Mesopotamian sacred architecture in the western thought. This monument, standardized at the end of the III millennium BC by the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur, has changed during the history of Mesopotamia its shape ...
NADALI, Davide, Polcaro, Andrea
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The National Planning Policy Framework and Archaeology: A Response by RESCUE - The British Archaeological Trust

open access: yesPapers from the Institute of Archaeology, 2013
The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) delivers a concise set of policies which the development industry can view (with some satisfaction given its brevity) as being the basic standard principles by which their work must be conducted. The core of sensible planning is here – care for the economy, consideration of the environment, quality of ...
openaire   +3 more sources

West Heslerton: WEB-CD The application of HTML and WEB Tools for creating a distibuted excavation archive in the form of a WEB-CD

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 1998
The excavation between 1986 and 1995 of a complete Early and Middle-Saxon settlement at West Heslerton, North Yorkshire, England, by The Landscape Research Centre on behalf of English Heritage (Archaeology Commissions Programme) remains one of the ...
Dominic Powlesland   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity in Ancestral Caddo Vessel Forms in East Texas Archaeological Sites [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Ceramic vessels from ancestral Caddo sites in East Texas are diverse in form, size, manufacture, and decoration, both spatially and temporally. Variation in these attributes, including vessel form, also “is connected with particular local and regional ...
Perttula, Timothy K.
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Best Practices for 3D Digital Recording and Global Sharing of Catacombs from Late Roman Sicily

open access: yesStudies in Digital Heritage, 2019
During the most recent excavations at the Catacombs of St. Lucy at Siracusa, carried out between 2013 and 2015, an array of 3D technologies were employed to record excavation data and provide new interpretative models for the site.
Davide Tanasi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Use and Abuse of Archaeology to Promote Nazi Nationalist Goals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
By appealing to the people, and restoring a sense of pride through nationalism, Hitler and his Nazi party gained immense popularity. In this article, I explore one of the Nazi party\u27s most influential, yet not well known or studied in depth, methods ...
Bouchard, Matt
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