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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
wiley   +1 more source

Ta moko: Maori tattoo [PDF]

, 1997
The author examines the history, technique and meaning of ta moko (Maori tattoo) from prehistory to modern ...
Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia
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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
wiley   +1 more source

Predictive Archaeological Risk Assessment at Reservoirs with Multitemporal LiDAR and Machine Learning (XGBoost): The Case of Valdecañas Reservoir (Spain)

Remote Sensing
The conservation and monitoring of archaeological sites submerged in water reservoirs have become increasingly necessary in a climatic context where water management policies are possibly accelerating erosion and sedimentation processes.
Enrique Cerrillo-Cuenca, Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prehistory as Propaganda [PDF]

, 1995
Crawford, H, Hung, FYC, MacDonald, KC
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Chronology and Demography: How Many People Lived in a Mega-Site? [PDF]

, 2016
Since the discovery of the huge dimensions of Trypillia BIVCI mega-sites, estimations about their population size have mainly resulted magnitudes which are as extraordinary for European prehistory as the dimensions of the sites themselves.
Brandtstiitter, Lennart, Hofmann, Robert, Müller, Johannes, Ohlrau, René, Videiko, Mykhailo   +4 more
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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
Paul Stock
wiley   +1 more source

Desecrations by Matt Rader [PDF]

, 2016
Review of Matt Rader\u27s ...
Stobbart, Katie
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‘That Profession and Habit that None Other Be of Within this Realm’: The Battel Hall Retable, Visual Culture and Intersections of Community Identity in a Late Medieval English Convent

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
wiley   +1 more source