Abstract Archaeological campaigns carried out at the emporic sanctuary of Gravisca (Tarquinia, Italy) have revealed extraordinary evidence for ritual depositions and ceremonies linked to the divinities/guarantors of the sanctuary. The ritual of one such deposition was reconstructed using a multidisciplinary approach, comprising an in‐depth analysis of ...
Giulia Patrizi +7 more
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Analizele compoziției metalice a pieselor de harnașament și mărgelelor de argint de la Agighiol și comparația lor cu monedele histriene de argint de la Capul Dolojman [PDF]
The X-ray fluorescence analyses of 19 harnesses pieces and 13 beads from Agighiol show that they were made from silver, gold and copper; some items include copper to strengthen the alloy and some phalerae were gilded and contain more gold in the protome.
Emilian TELEAGA +2 more
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Megalithic Structures of the northern Sahara (Chott el Jérid, Tunisia)
Megalithic monuments are a distinctive archaeological feature of Saharan landscape, as indicated by different systematic research projects undertaken so far.
Andrea Monaco +10 more
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The uncertain death. Estimating mortality structure by random sampling
Abstract Imprecise data produced by commonly applied osteological age‐at‐death estimations profoundly affect all research on age‐dependent mortality in past societies. With uncertain death estimation (UCD), we propose a novel approach to estimating the mortality structure from imprecise data and present a corresponding R package for simple application.
Daria Moser +4 more
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Connected peripheries – North Danube Thrace in the 4th-3rd centuries BC. Exploring settlement patterns in the environs of the ostentatious grave of Peretu [PDF]
The following analysis emerged as an attempt to explain and contextualize a very rich grave, already historiographically notorious, with analogies equally famous, traditionally dated around the middle of the 4th c.
Maria-Magdalena ȘTEFAN, Dan ȘTEFAN
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What future for EU foresight? A critical perspective on the institutionalisation of foresight
Abstract What are the potential strengths and weaknesses in the current reconstruction of foresight at the EU level? In questioning foresight's institutionalisation processes from both a historical and a political sociology perspective, the article claims that charting the future is an issue of political power and that, hence, foresight's ...
Brigitte Gaïti, Didier Georgakakis
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Possible statue-steles from the Copper Age in Causasca di Sotto, Trontano, Ossola Valley
In February 2015 Riccardo Carazzetti, former curator of the Archaeological Museum of Locarno and director of the city’s cultural services, saw the statue-stele S.1 from the train whilst travelling on the Vigezzina-Centovalli train line. Subsequently, he
Angelo E. FOSSATI
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ABSTRACT We present sequential oxygen isotope records (δ18Ophosphate vs. VSMOW) of horse tooth enamel phosphate of six individuals from two adjacent Palaeolithic sites in Lower Austria. Three molars from the site Krems‐Wachtberg date to 33–31k cal a bp, and three molars from Kammern‐Grubgraben to 24–20k cal a bp.
Lilian Reiss +6 more
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Towards configuring the neolithisation of Aegean Turkey
Increasing field work in the ̇Izmir region has produced much sought tangible evidence about the ways in which food-producing communities emerged in the Aegean. Focusing on the archaeological and zooarchaeological data from Ulucak and neighboring sites,
Çiler Çilingiroğlu, Canan Çakırlar
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Cavalerul cu pasăre de pradă de la Surcea: avatarul unui mit celtic în Dacia epocii târzii la Tène [PDF]
The presence of the Celts in Transylvania during the middle La Tène period was neither ephemeral nor devoid of consequences. Most likely, their mythological legacy materialized in local late La Tène iconography (e.g.
Daniel SPÂNU
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