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Marea: a Byzantine port in northern Egypt [PDF]
African Studies Center Working Paper No ...
Gabel, Creighton, Petruso, Karl
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ABSTRACT This paper proposes Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 film as promising fieldwork tools for addressing problematic temporalities in ethnographic museums and for collaborating with communities of origin. Focusing on the Maria Czaplicka Siberian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, we examine how previous methods of display marginalized the
Anya Gleizer +2 more
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The names of the town and villages of Gozo (Malta) [PDF]
The Maltese islands have been dominated by various rulers who left an imprint on the life, customs, and language of the inhabitants. This is evident also in the toponymy of the archipelago.
Zammit Ciantar, Joe
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Forenames and Surnames in Spain in 2004 [PDF]
This paper quantifies the corpus of forenames and surnames in Spain in 2004 using the telephone directory. It describes their frequency patterns, major measurable characteristics, and gives some geographical distributions, international comparisons, and ...
Mateos, P, Tucker, DK
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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy
Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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Automated annotation of landmark images using community contributed datasets and web resources [PDF]
A novel solution to the challenge of automatic image annotation is described. Given an image with GPS data of its location of capture, our system returns a semantically-rich annotation comprising tags which both identify the landmark in the image, and ...
Byrne, Daragh +4 more
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Residential toponyms and urban change (1890–2000) in a seaside resort town, Benicàssim, Spain [PDF]
This paper examines the naming patterns of residential dwellings in a seaside resort town, Benicàssim (Valencia), on Spain’s Mediterranean coast. The fi eldwork encompassed a survey of over 500 dwelling units along the town’s coastal margin which has ...
Ortells Chabrera, Vicent
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Speaking Truth to Power: Understanding the Role of Political Theater in Russia
The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Katherine A. New
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The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres
The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post‐Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to ...
Duncan W. Wright +7 more
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Description linguistique en toponymie contrastive dans une base de données multilingue
The project to establish a multi-lingual database of toponyms and its associated purpose to compare exonyms through 10 languages has stressed the necessity to analyze the toponyms, in particular the analysis of complex toponyms of the different languages
Jonas Löfström +1 more
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