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Caligula's Floating Palaces - Archaeologists And Shipwrights Resurrect One Of The Emperor's Sumptuous Pleasure Boats [PDF]
, 2002 Anthropolog
Carlson, Deborah N.
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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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Changing ideas of bodily cleanliness [PDF]
, 2004 The modern bathroom reflects Western ideas on the handling of bodily wastes, and consequently ideas of cleanliness. Taking a historical study as the point of departure, the purpose of this paper is to understand the extent to which the idea of ...
Quitzau, Maj-Britt
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Archaeological excavation : Skelhorne Street Phase 2, Liverpool [PDF]
, 2017 In April 2017, Salford Archaeology was commissioned by Nexus-Heritage to carry out an archaeological excavation of a well and potential workers housing at Skelhorne Street and Bolton Street, Liverpool (centred on NGR 335075 390430).
Mottershead, GD
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2015 From the very beginning of the human history, body cleanliness is one of the basic needs. At first, human beings have supplied the needs of cleaning from rivers and lakes. With the development of civilizations they have started to build baths.
Enes Kavalçalan
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?
History, EarlyView.Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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Legionary fortress baths of León. Analysis and archaeological interpretation of its southeast corner
Zephyrus, 2019 In 1996, the archaeological interventions in Puerta Obispo zone of the city of León, next to the east gate of the legionary fortress, revealed the remains of a Roman building dismantled almost at foundations level.
Ángel MORILLO CERDÁN +2 more
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