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Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy? [PDF]
, 2013 The authors’ research project in the Pyrenees mountains has located and excavated Roman kilns for producing pitch from pine resin. Their investigations reveal a whole sustainable industry, integrated into the local environmental cycle, supplying pitch to
Ejarque, Ana +4 more
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Satellite remote sensing is among the most significant modern methodologies supporting field archaeology. In addition to its efficiency in identifying archaeological sites, remote sensing offers a safe and cost‐effective approach in conflict zones.
Amal Al Kassem +5 more
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The Melite Civitas Romana Project: The Case for a Modern Exploration of the Roman Domus, Malta
Open Archaeology, 2021 The Roman Domus in Mdina, Malta, has become an idealised example of the Roman presence in the Maltese Islands; the partial remains of a lavishly decorated domus that would have in its time been situated within the walls of the urbanised Roman city of ...
Brown Robert +4 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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Theoretical Roman Archaeology JournalThe sixth volume of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal marks the publication of the first Special Collection and the inaugural TRAJ book reviews, and highlights the hosting of TRAC in South-Eastern Europe for the first time.
Antonia Kovač, Ozren Domiter
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Testing Reinecke’s chronology of the Early Bronze Age with radiocarbon dating – New evidence from Southern Bavaria [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2019 In this article we present a critical view of the current chronological framework for Early Bronze Age burials from Southern Bavaria, by using radiocarbon dating to re examine Paul Reinecke’s relative chronological classification system.
Ken Massy , Philipp W. Stockhammer
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2018 In this paper, the environmental risks and their effects on preservation issues are investigated for the archaeological area at Rosetta (Rashid “North of Egypt”), where the most famous Islamic monuments are located.
Ayaat Shams eldein +6 more
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Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese [PDF]
, 2015 This work examines the use of memory and tradition in the Christianization of the Peloponnese based on the evidence of the location and topography of churches.
Sweetman, Rebecca Jane
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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