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Internet Archaeology, 2009 In the last few decades, there has been a great deal of interest in the stone used as building material in megalithic monuments. Several studies have been carried out on the location of quarries and on the monumental and symbolic role of stones in ...
Guillaume Robin, Serge Cassen
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Monuments to Injustice and the Ethics of Dark Tourism: A Research Note
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research note aims to motivate philosophical examination of the ethical tensions surrounding ‘dark tourism’ and monuments to injustice. While such monuments function to acknowledge past wrongs, educate the public, and serve reparative functions, their presentation as tourist destinations can undermine these purposes.
Kok‐Chor Tan
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Upland farming in Europe is frequently assumed to have been limited and precarious, despite relict spade‐dug ridges providing firm evidence of past crop growing. Direct evidence for crop types in post‑Medieval to Modern (~since 1500 CE) uplands is rare; yet, in Ireland, relict spade‐dug ridges that date to this period are commonly interpreted ...
Helen Essell, Gill Plunkett
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Steinkors og korssteiner i nordvestre Europa
Collegium Medievale, 2011 Norwegian scholars have regarded stone crosses and cross slabs from western Norway as testimonies to the Christianisation process, dating roughly from the mid-tenth century to the beginning of eleventh century. These monuments are also seen as the result
Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide
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Microorganisms, 2023 Microbial colonization on stone monuments leads to subsequent biodeterioration; determining the microbe diversity, compositions, and metabolic capacities is essential for understanding biodeterioration mechanisms and undertaking heritage management. Here,
Yong Zhang +9 more
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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia
Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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On a Rude Stone Monument in Kent. [PDF]
The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1878 n ...
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Overharvesting of wild edible plants poses a growing threat to plant populations worldwide, particularly for slow‐growing species with limited regeneration. We quantified fruit extraction from the third‐largest known population of Jubaea chilensis—an endangered palm endemic to Chile—modeled the critical harvest threshold, and assessed consumer ...
Sebastián Cordero +7 more
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La mémoire fragmentée des monuments historiques
In SituThe principle of taking stone deposits into account by the services responsible for historic monuments was established in the 1849 instruction for the conservation, maintenance and restoration of diocesan buildings, particularly cathedrals.
Judith Kagan +2 more
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Installation of stainless metal reinforcements in stone cultural monuments [PDF]
, 2021 Objective: To provide examples of the installation of stainless-steel reinforcements in a stone cultural monument as part of conservation and restoration work.
Balić, Jure, Bizjak, Siniša
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