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Editorial on the Special Issue “Application of Petrography, Geochemistry, and Geomechanics to Architectural Heritage”

open access: yesApplied 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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The curatorial consequences of being moved, moveable or portable: the case of carved stones [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
It matters whether a carved stone is moved, moveable or portable. This influences perceptions of significance and of form and nature – is it a monument or an artefact? This duality may in turn affect understanding and appreciation of the resource. It has
Anderson J.   +11 more
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Local churches and the conquest of the North : elite patronage and identity in Saxo-Norman Northumbria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The social implications of the Saxo-Norman transition are particularly intriguing in Northumbria, where Anglian, Scandinavian, and Norman social structures, identities, and traditions of material culture converged.
McClain, A.
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Visibility studies in archaeology: a review and case study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This paper describes the history and current state of archaeological visibility studies. The first part is a survey of both GIS (geographic information systems) and non-GIS studies of visibility by archaeologists, which demonstrates how advances in GIS ...
Lake, MW, Woodman, PE
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Stone Tools Continuity of the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Population of the Lower Kama River Region

open access: yesПоволжская 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]

open access: yesThe 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   +6 more
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Tombstones of the Cemetery at the Basilica of Mangup

open access: yesАнтичная 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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INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL (EXTERNAL) FACTORS ON DURABILITY OF FRESHWATER LIMESTONES TENELIJA, MILJEVINA AND MULJIKA

open access: yese-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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Determination of Sulphates in Model Stones and Stones from Corvins’ Castle

open access: yesProceedings, 2019
Stone monuments represent a big part of the world’s cultural heritage. [...]
Sorina Florentina Vasile   +4 more
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Review article: Ever decreasing circles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Review of P.J. ASHMORE, Calanais: survey and excavation 1979-88, and RICHARD BRADLEY & COURTNEY NIMURA (eds), The use and reuse of stone circles: fieldwork at five Scottish monuments and its ...
Barnatt, Burl, Darvill, Richards
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