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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]
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]
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]
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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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]
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
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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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
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]
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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