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The Territory of Ancient Tipasa, Algeria: Archaeological Survey, Material Culture, and Connectivity in Central Maghreb
The territory of Tipasa, an iconic UNESCO landscape that comprises the ancient city of Mauretania and its Royal Mausoleum, has never been...
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Two Odd Ones Out: Mediterranean Ballast Stones and Italian Maritime Connections in the Medieval Bruges’ Harbor System
Excavations in the Bruges’ Medieval outer ports of Hoeke and Monnikerede, located along the Zwin tidal inlet, revealed numerous rounded cobbles of...
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Trade and the Recycling of Stones in Medieval Cologne
The vita of Archbishop Heribert of Cologne reports that after the collapse of the monastery church in Cologne-Deutz in 1000 AD, the Archbishop “hired...
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The High Cost of Living: Death and Social Identity of Missouri’s Historic Columbia Cemetery
The gravestones of Missouri’s historic Columbia Cemetery demonstrate the changing social identity of the population of Columbia, Missouri. These...
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A Review of Methods to Analyze Archaeological Lime Production: Investigating Raw Materials Selection and Firing Conditions
AbstractLime-based materials are found in archaeological contexts across many world regions. The earliest evidence of lime production was discovered...
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Cultivating Hinterland: What Lies Behind Agnes Denes’ Wheatfield?
In 1982, the artist Agnes Denes and several volunteers grew two acres of wheat near Manhattan’s financial district, titling the project Wheatfield: A...
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Spatial Cognition for Information of World Cultural Heritage
The world cultural heritage is a precious textbook for people to know the history and culture of different countries and nationalities.
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Taxonomy and Nomenclature for the Stone Domain in New England
The European settlement of rural New England created an agro-ecosystem of fenced fields and pastures linked to human settlements and hydropowered...
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Medieval Monumentalization in Sardinia – Petrophysical Investigation and Digital Documentation
The central position of Sardinia in the Mediterranean made it a crossing point of many cultural and political events, but at the same time, its...
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Residences
Residence must be viewed in the light of major disparities. A comparative approach prompts the identification of major vectors of distinction...
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The Renaissance of Bamiyan (Afghanistan) and Some Proposals for the Revitalisation of the Bamiyan Valley
The present proposal have been developed by taking into consideration the need of an integrated and sustainable development of the whole Country as...
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Stony Flows
In this chapter, I draw on network and assemblage thinking to consider how the city is continuously assembled and reassembled by the lithic matter...
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Settlement Rank and Society
Follows changing settlement and burial patterns at **antanmiao from the early phase (Middle/Late Songze) through Liangzhu periods. Shows evolving...
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Prolegomenon to the Spectacles in the Making
In KeralaKerala transformations of human habitations are happening at a fast pace. The effects are felt on a vast range of habitats from houses and...
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In Search of the Prototype: An Art Historical Enquiry into the Evolving Form of Pratimas in Kumartuli, West Bengal
The essay attempts to trace the evolutionEvolution of unfired Durga clay idolsIdol (pratima) from Kumartuli and gauge its transitions from...
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The later prehistory of Southeast Asia and southern China: the impact of exchange, farming and metallurgy
This paper integrates the later prehistory of mainland Southeast Asia with that of the extensive and varied lands north to the Yangtze River and...
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Mining and Minerals
Mining is one of the oldest industries on Earth, and minerals are essential for the modern society and many industrial processes. The future of the...
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The Ghosts of Urban Stone
In this final and concluding chapter, I investigate the explanatory limitations of the theories I have used in chapters throughout this book by...
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Thinking About Urban Materiality
The introductory chapter outlines the primary themes of the book and identifies the key theories of materiality that inform the work. In attempting...
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Sensing Place: Living with Melbourne’s Stone
Drawing on ideas from non-representational, phenomenological and post-phenomenological thinking, this chapter examines how besides being saturated...