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South Arabia's prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
In arid regions across northern Africa, Asia and Arabia, ancient pastoralists constructed small-scale stone monuments of varying form, construction, placement, age, and function. Classification studies of each type have inhibited a broader model of their
Joy McCorriston, Lawrence Ball, Michael J Harrower, Ian M Hamilton, Sarah J Ivory, Matthew J Senn, Tara Steimer-Herbet, Abigail F Buffington, Ali Ahmad Al-Kathiri, Ali Musalam Al-Mahri   +9 more
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Identification of keystone taxa shaping biocrust formation and biodeterioration of limestone monuments in the Xiaoling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty [PDF]

Environmental Microbiome
The limestone monuments of the Rectangular Tower in the Xiaoling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty, created in the mid-fourteenth century, are biodeteriorating from environmental exposure, resulting in the formation of black biocrusts.
Weijia Wang, Xiaofang Huang, Fasi Wu, Xiaobo Liu   +3 more
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Weakly Supervised SVM-Enhanced SAM Pipeline for Stone-by-Stone Segmentation of the Masonry of the Loire Valley Castles [PDF]

Journal of Imaging
The preservation of historical monuments presents a formidable challenge, particularly in monitoring the deterioration of building materials over time.
Stuardo Lucho, Sylvie Treuillet, Xavier Desquesnes, Remy Leconge, Xavier Brunetaud   +4 more
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Contribution to the study of the geographical distribution of Pyrenean funerary stone circles (baratze, cromlech) in the western Pyrenees

Zephyrus, 2016
‘Baratze’ or Pyrenean funerary stone circles, also known as Pyrenean cromlech, are funerary cremation monuments constructed between the Late Bronze Age and the beginning of the Roman period.
Jose Miguel EDESO FITO, Idoia GOIKOETXEA ZABALETA, Ane LOPETEGI GALARRAGA, Erik ARÉVALO MUÑOZ, Íñigo ORUE, Luis Mari ZALDUA, Jose Antonio MUJIKA ALUSTIZA   +6 more
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Community Composition and Ex Situ Cultivation of Fungi Associated with UNESCO Heritage Monuments in the Bay of Naples

Applied Sciences, 2021
The Bay of Naples, Italy, is renowned for its archaeological heritage. However, this heritage is threatened by the combination of weathering and the biological activity of microorganisms.
Mariagioia Petraretti, Karl J. Duffy, Angelo Del Mondo, Antonino Pollio, Antonino De Natale   +4 more
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Editorial on the Special Issue “Application of Petrography, Geochemistry, and Geomechanics to Architectural Heritage”

Applied Sciences, 2023
In historical architecture, which includes many types of monuments and ancient buildings, natural stone was used as the main building material because of its natural beauty, availability and durability [...]
Alba Patrizia Santo
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Stone Tools Continuity of the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Population of the Lower Kama River Region

Поволжская археология, 2013
A widespread thesis concerning population continuity in the Lower Kama region during the Late Mesolithic and the Early Neolithic is challenged in the article.
Viskalin Aleksandr V.
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ASSESSING PATHOLOGIES ON VILLAMAYOR STONE (SALAMANCA, SPAIN) BY TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNER INTENSITY DATA [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
This paper deals with the assessing of pathologies in façades using a variety of intensity data provided by different terrestrial laser scanner. In particular, a complex building built in the Villamayor Stone that is to be candidate as a Global Heritage ...
J. García-Talegón, S. Calabrés, J. Fernández-Lozano, A. C. Iñigo, H. Herrero-Fernández, B. Arias-Pérez, D. González-Aguilera   +6 more
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INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL (EXTERNAL) FACTORS ON DURABILITY OF FRESHWATER LIMESTONES TENELIJA, MILJEVINA AND MULJIKA

e-Zbornik. Elektronički Zbornik Radova Građevinskog Fakulteta, 2023
In order to avoid complex processes of changes, or weathering (decay) of freshwater limestones embedded in numerous buildings and/or monuments due to interaction with various environmental conditions (external factors), builders have always tried to ...
Krešimir Šaravanja
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Tombstones of the Cemetery at the Basilica of Mangup

Античная древность и средние века, 2020
The basilica located atop Mangup plateau in the south-western highland is one of the Christian monuments of the Crimea which research provided abundant archaeological materials.
Nadezhda Igorevna Barmina
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