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The thermal history of the Western Irish onshore [PDF]
, 2014 We present here a low-temperature thermochronological study that combines the apatite fission-track and (U + Th)/He dating methods with a pseudo-vertical sampling approach to generate continuous and well-constrained temperature–time histories from the ...
Chew, David +2 more
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Review of the Website A Journey to a New Land
Internet Archaeology, 2007 Archaeology and Traditional Knowledge sometimes find themselves pitted against each other in the quest for legitimacy, for an audience. When discussing the origins of the Native populations of the Americas, some very serious emotions can be touched upon.
Dr. Jean-Luc Pilon
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Sacred, secular, or sacrilegious? prehistoric sites, pagans and the Sacred Sites project in Britain [PDF]
, 2008 This paper explores issues and tensions developing within today's Britain around prehistoric 'sacred sites' and their appropriation by a wide range of interested or concerned groups. In examining and theorising competing constructions of 'sacredness' and
Blain, J., Wallis, R. J.
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The serialized past: archaeology news online [PDF]
, 2016 Maintaining the public’s interest in the past has long been a major concern among archaeologists, and practitioners since Mortimer Wheeler have appreciated the value of reporting their finds through mass media outlets (Moshenska and Schadla-Hall 2011 ...
Maldonado, Adrian
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Spina Bifida Occulta in Medieval and Postmedieval Times in Eastern Romania [PDF]
Memoirs of the Scientific Sections of the Romanian Academy, 2016 This paper provides bioarchaeological evidence of Spina Bifida Occulta (SBO) in human skeletons discovered in medieval and post-medieval sites of Eastern Romania and evaluates its prevalence and patterns by examining its relationship to age, sex, type of
Vasilica-Monica Groza +3 more
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Archeological Investigations at the Laredo Cemetery Site (41WB22), Webb County, Texas [PDF]
, 1981 Archeological involvement in the exhumation of relatively recent historic cemeteries is a new development in Texas. Traditionally, archeologists have directed their attention toward the burial practices of aboriginal peoples and have shied away from any ...
Herrington, LaVerne +2 more
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'Not just bones': a cultural and political history of mass grave exhumations in Spain [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper I analyze the exhumations of mass graves of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) and dictatorship (1939–75) as spaces where processes of attribution of meaning take place, and I’ll propose a provisional thesis on how cultural and political ...
Colaert, Lore
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GenealogyBuried in 1858, Cornelis Kok II’s grave lay undisturbed in Campbell, Northern Cape, until 1961 when a multiracial coalition, driven by their own sets of interests, unearthed the Griqua leader’s remains. The bones again took centre stage with the collapse
Richard Levi Raber, David Morris
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Stream hydrology controls on ice cliff evolution and survival on debris-covered glaciers [PDF]
Earth Surface DynamicsIce cliffs are melt hot spots that contribute disproportionately to melt on debris-covered glaciers. In this study, we investigate the impact of supraglacial stream hydrology on ice cliffs using in situ and remote sensing observations, streamflow ...
E. Petersen +3 more
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The Sanctity of Burial: Pagan Views, Ancient and Modern [PDF]
Archaeologists worldwide increasingly engage with calls from indigenous communities for the repatriation and reburial of ancestral remains. In this paper, we present findings from the Sacred Sites, Contested Rights/Rites Project: Contemporary Pagan ...
Blain, Jenny, Wallis, Robert
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