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Fire and memory: transforming place using fire at henge monuments [PDF]
, 2017 Henges — Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age earthwork monuments — often have long life-histories of reuse and rebuilding over generations. At some sites, fire-lighting and the deposition of fire-altered materials played a significant role in certain ...
Younger, Rebecca
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Megaliths, monuments and materiality [PDF]
, 2010 Stones, and especially the arrangement of large stones in relation to one another, have long been the focus of attention in megalith studies, a concern reflected in the name itself. It is, however, a blinkered view.
Darvill, Timothy
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Load capacity prediction of in-service timber utility poles considering wind load [PDF]
, 2016 © 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. This paper presents a numerical investigation on the influence of different types of damage to the load capacity of in-service timber utility poles.
Dackermann, U +4 more
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Cremation practices and the creation of monument complexes: the Neolithic cremation cemetery at Forteviot, Strathearn, Perth & Kinross, Scotland, and its comparanda [PDF]
, 2017 Around the beginning of the 3rd millennium cal bc a cremation cemetery was established at Forteviot, central Scotland. This place went on to become one of the largest monument complexes identified in Mainland Scotland, with the construction of a ...
Brophy, Kenneth, Noble, Gordon
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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Shell middens in Gippsland along the eastern half of Victoria's coastline have usually been characterised as small, short‐duration camp sites with relatively low shell densities and low taxonomic diversity. Here we present new excavation results from a dense, high‐diversity site at Red Bluff near the eastern end of GunaiKurnai Country, a ...
Patrick Faulkner +17 more
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Viability of sawdust briquettes for rural Ghana [PDF]
, 2011 The growing demand for solid fuels in the developing world has begun to place enormous pressure on natural resources with an especially heavy toll on the forests of sub-Saharan Africa.
Mohedas, Ibrahim
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Experimental analysis of laterally loaded nailed timber-to-concrete connections [PDF]
, 2009 This work intends to assess the accuracy of the methodology proposed in the Eurocode 5 for laterally loaded nailed timber-to-concrete connections. First, the adequacy of the methodology proposed by Eurocode 5 for the dowel-type fasteners is analyzed ...
Branco, Jorge M. +2 more
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson +9 more
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Technological status and development prospects of small-scale fishing crafts in Nigerian coastal water [PDF]
, 2001 A study of fishing crafts was conducted in some coastal states of Nigeria to elucidate findings on the existing crafts as the baseline for further developments.
Ambrose, E.E. +3 more
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