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Ceramic ecology in an Islamic capital: changes in the production and consumption of pottery in Palermo

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the ...
Viva Sacco
wiley   +1 more source

The former distribution of White‐tailed Eagles in Iberia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East: a case study of the importance of understanding historical distribution in informing current conservation and restoration interventions

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
The importance of considering historical data in developing conservation and restoration measures for individual species and for wider ecological restoration has been pointed out by recent reviews but often remains neglected in practice. This paper provides a case study illustrating the issue through a review of the former breeding distribution of the ...
Duncan J. Halley
wiley   +1 more source

Conference Workshop Review: TRAC, a Place for an Experiment in Roman Studies 2018

open access: yesEXARC Journal, 2018
The annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) took place from the 11th to the 15th of April 2018 alongside the biannual Roman Archaeology Conference (RAC) at the University of Edinburgh.
Lee Graña
doaj  

Diachronic Trends in Dental Hygiene Over the Last 2000 Years in Milan, Italy: An Exploratory Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Dental Hygiene, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Oral health is a multi‐factorial condition influenced by diet, hygiene and sociocultural habits and its historical evolution can be traced through the bioarchaeological analysis of dento‐skeletal remains, offering unique insights into past lifestyles and public health trends.
Lucie Biehler‐Gomez   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The social context of eating and drinking at native settlements in early Roman Britain. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Observation of the presence and absence of Roman-style goods and structures has guided much of the analysis of imperialism in Roman Britain and other parts of the Empire.
Meadows, Karen Ingrid
core   +1 more source

Framework Archaeology Heathrow Terminal 5 Excavation Archive

open access: yes, 2011
Between 1996 and 2000 Framework Archaeology undertook extensive excavations of an important prehistoric and Roman landscape at Perry Oaks sludge works, Heathrow, Middlesex.
Framework Archaeology
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Morphofunctional effects of captivity on the microanatomy of the talus bone in a wild ungulate (Sus scrofa)

open access: yesJournal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
Our study explores the plastic changes induced by captivity on the microanatomy of the talus of wild boars, revealing denser bone with tighter trabecular networks but a lower relative maximum thickness of compact bone. These plastic adaptations can serve to detect early processes of domestication in the archaeological record.
Roman Ocaña   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growing together: Developmental integration and modularity in the human talus–calcaneus complex

open access: yesJournal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
This study investigates morphological integration and trabecular bone development in the human talus–calcaneus complex during postnatal ontogeny. The two bones exhibit strong integration throughout development, with differing bone volume fraction trajectories presumably reflecting their distinct functional roles during bipedal gait acquisition ...
Carla Figus   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Judeo‐Islamic God

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
wiley   +1 more source

Prestongrange Community Archaeology Project: Desk-based Assessment

open access: yes, 2005
This report describes the results of historical research and archaeological desk-based assessment undertaken in June 2004 by CFA Archaeology Ltd and Dr Richard Oram as part of the Prestongrange Community Archaeology Project (PCAP).
Oram, Richard, Cressey, Michael
core  

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