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The precarious conviviality of water mills [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Social institutions such as the water-powered grain mills of Ottoman Cyprus are elaborately interconnected with a wide range of human and non-human players, from millers and villagers to water, gradient, stone and climate.
Given, Michael
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From Implement to Outcrop: a model for identifying implement source rock at outcrop

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2009
Traditionally, the sourcing of prehistoric stone tools in Britain has been done most successfully by comparing the petrological and geochemical characteristics of individual stone tools with rock and debitage from known prehistoric quarry sites and stone
Amy Davis, Vin Davis, Mik Markham
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A descriptive bibliography of British and Irish editions of Isaac Watts’s Divine Songs (1715–ca. 1830) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Isaac Watts’s Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children (1715) represents a pivotal point in the history of children’s literature.
Uvin, Tielke
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Function Follows Form: Assessing the Functionality of Shells and Greenstone Shell Effigies as Formative Period Mesoamerican Textile Fabrication Tools, Part 1: Tagelus plebeius Atlantic Stout Razor Clam Shells

open access: yesEXARC Journal, 2022
Although the importance of textiles in Mesoamerica from the Classic period (AD 250-900) onward is well-recognised, until recently little research or exploration of earlier Mesoamerican textile production has been conducted. This paucity of scholarship is
Billie J. A. Follensbee
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New Mesolithic Sites of the Lower Volga Region

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2023
The paper publishes materials of the new Mesolithic sites in the Lower Volga region. The research relevance is due to the fact that this period is less studied than the others.
Tatiana Yu. Grechkina   +2 more
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The Invention of Stone Tools

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This paper was written to study the development of stone tools technology throughout the Paleolithic. It finds the technology developed with the simplest discoveries being made first and more complex discoveries being made later. The chemical structure and the properties of the raw materials determined that stone tools could be useful to humans and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Integration and utilization of modern technologies in nephrolithiasis research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Nephrolithiasis, or stones, is one of the oldest urological diseases, with descriptions and treatment strategies dating back to ancient times. Despite the enormous number of patients affected by stones, a surprising lack of conceptual understanding of ...
Borofsky, Michael S.   +5 more
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Stone tools in the economic activity of the population of the Late Bronze Age in the forest-steppe zone of the Tobol river basin

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2017
The article presents the results of a complex analysis of stone tools from the sites of the Late Bronze Age in the forest-steppe zone of the Tobol river basin. The new data were obtained due to using petrographic, typological, traceological methods. They
Kostomarova Yu.V.
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Laser surface texturing of a WC-CoNi cemented carbide grade: surface topography design for honing application [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Abrasive effectiveness of composite-like honing stones is related to the intrinsic surface topography resulting from the cubic boron nitride (CBN) grains protruding out of the metallic matrix.
Bähre, Dirk   +2 more
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Chronology of Kama Neolithic culture

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2017
The concept of the Kama Neolithic culture was proposed by Otto Bader, but lacked ra­diocarbon dates in the 20th century. Now, we have more than 50 radiocarbon dates that can be at­tributed to the Kama Neolithic culture.
Evgenia Leonidovna Lychagina   +1 more
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