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Spindle Whorls: their Symbolism in the Villanovan Cemetery of Quattro Fontanili, Veii

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 1993
The hypothesis presented in this paper is that the apparently insignificant pottery spindle whorl is a symbol of transformation of death into new life by analogy with mankind's oldest abstract image, the circle, and with the important inventions of ...
Kristina Berggren
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Two Graves from Batina: An indication of the economic role and social status of women near the Danube in the Early Iron Age

open access: yesArheološki Vestnik, 2023
The majority of the Early Iron Age cremation graves of women near the Middle Danube in northeast Croatia and northwest Serbia, in the cemeteries of Batina, Dalj, Vukovar, Sotin and Doroslovo, contained an urn, a set of ceramic vessels, and sometimes ...
Daria Ložnjak Dizdar   +4 more
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Textile Production in Central Anatolia between the 2nd and the 1st Millennium BC: Analysis of Tools and Contexts

open access: yesAsia Anteriore Antica, 2020
This study deals with tools linked to textile production in central Anatolia in the transition period between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC. It is a critical phase which begins with the crisis and collapse of Hittite Empire and which is characterized
Alice Bonacchi
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Attitudes towards prehistoric objects in Romanian folk culture (19th-20th century)

open access: yesSwedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 2019
In the present study we intend to reconstruct the attitudes of Romanian peasants towards the vestiges of prehistoric material culture. They have been in contact with a diversity of prehistoric artefacts: polished and perforated stone axes, silex arrow ...
Alexandru Ofrim
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Image of the Head of a Bird of Prey in Ananyino Cultural and Historical Area

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2023
Objects, decorated with images of the head of a bird of prey, spread on the territory of the Ananyino cultural and historical area (Ananyino world) with the appearance of bimetallic hammer-axes and are associated with movement of the nomads of the ...
Chizhevsky Andrey A.   +2 more
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Millet agriculture dispersed from Northeast China to the Russian Far East: integrating archaeology, genetics, and linguistics

open access: yes, 2020
Broomcorn and foxtail millets were being cultivated in the West Liao River basin in Northeast China by at least the sixth millennium BCE. However, when and how millet agriculture spread from there to the north and east remains poorly understood. Here, we
Hudson, M.   +4 more
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Runic Spindle Whorl Recently Found in Orkney

open access: yesFuthark: International Journal of Runic Studies, 2020
This article gives an account of a rune-inscribed bone spindle whorl which was found by a member of the public in Orkney in January 2017. The inscription will presumably be designated as OR 24.
Ragnhild Ljosland, Gail Drinkall
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Solitary Schwannoma of the Cecum: Case Report and Review of the Literature

open access: yesCase Reports in Oncology, 2013
A 78-year-old woman presented with an abdominal mass diagnosed by ultrasound and computed tomography. The patient underwent a laparotomy, during which a retroperitoneal tumor adherent to the cecum wall was identified.
JoséWilson Benevides de Mesquita Neto   +4 more
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Immunohistochemical Distinguishing between Canine Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors and Perivascular Wall Tumors

open access: yesActa Veterinaria, 2019
Peripheral nerve sheath tumors (PNSTs) comprise a heterogeneous group of neoplasms originating from the elements of the nerve sheath. They are divided into two forms: benign and malignant PNST.
Vučićević Ivana   +6 more
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Tools tell tales – climate trends changing threads in the prehistoric Pannonian Plain

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2016
This study of prehistoric textile production on the Pannonian Plain is based on indirect evidence dated to the period between the 5th and 2nd millennium BC; the study of technological trends and changes that occurred in manufacturing traditions ...
Ana Grabundžija, Emmanuele Russo
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