History and archaeology topic list of research papers
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The Discourse on the seashells […, found] in Champagne, written by Vignier to Peiresc (1635): An early text supporting the organic origin of fossils
Abstract The ‘Bibliothèque nationale de France’ keeps a manuscript entitled Discourse on the seashells that are found on dry land, particularly in Champagne, written in French in 1635 by the Jesuit Jacques Vignier. Vignier describes, 55 years after...
2016 / Gaston Godard -
Poetry as Spiritual Interpretation of Islamic Architecture & Ancient Egyptians Temples
Abstract In 1251i.e. before the Mathnavi was begun Mevlana's friend, the minister Jalaluddin Qaratay, founded the Qaratay madrasa, a small edifice which, in – Anne Marie Schemmile opinion, better reflects the character of the Mathnavi than any...
2016 / Mai A. Hawas -
Primarily Criteria for the Architectural Treatment of Archaeological Sites’ Boundaries in Sensitive Landscapes Case Study: Luxor's Western Bank
Abstract Archaeological sites need to be enclosed for many reasons. Usually they are integral to their surrounding landscapes that are usually sensitive from ecological, visual, and/or cultural viewpoints. The architectural treatment of such...
2016 / Salah El din Samir Hareedy -
The impact of A. R. Wallace's Sarawak Law paper reassessed
Abstract This article examines six main elements in the modern story of the impact of Alfred Russel Wallace's 1855 Sarawak Law paper, particularly in the many accounts of Charles Darwin's life and work. These elements are: ...
2016 / John van Wyhe -
Thirty-five years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel
Abstract Israel is known as a pronatalist country. Whether due to the Biblical commandment to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ or the traumas of the Holocaust and perennial wars, reproduction is a central life goal for most Israelis. Israeli women bear...
2016 / Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli -
Reconstructing the past: methods and techniques for the digital restoration of fossils2016 / Stephan Lautenschlager
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A model for stature estimation and sex prediction using percutaneous ulnar and radial lengths in autopsied adult Egyptians2016 / Sahar Y. Issa, Ayman A. Khanfour, Magdy Kharoshah
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11,000 years of craniofacial and mandibular variation in Lower Nubia2016 / Manon Galland, Denis P. Van Gerven, Noreen Von Cramon-Taubadel, Ron Pinhasi
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Palaeoenvironmental implications of a marine geoarchaeological survey conducted in the SW Argosaronic gulf, Greece
Abstract A marine geoarcheological survey was conducted at the southwestern end of the Argosaronic gulf in Greece, an area of archaeological importance. The survey was initiated by the discovery of a Late Bronze Age (LBA) shipwreck off Modi Islet....
2016 / M. Geraga, G. Papatheodorou, C. Agouridis, H. Kaberi, M. Iatrou, et al. -
Akhet-Aten, The City of Akhen-Aten
Abstract Akhet-Aten took four years under construction before Amen-Hoteb IV announcement that the deity is “Aten”. That was manifested in the orientation of his temple to receive the sun rise on its longitudinal central part, on January the 2nd, in...
2016 / Adel Yasseen -
Retreat and extinction of the Late Pleistocene cave bear (Ursus spelaeus sensu lato)2016 / Mateusz Baca, Danijela Popović, Krzysztof Stefaniak, Adrian Marciszak, Mikołaj Urbanowski, et al.
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Evaluation of the contribution of NTFPs gathering: to rural people’s livelihoods around two timber concessions in Gabon2016 / Donald Midoko Iponga, Christian Mikolo-Yobo, Guillaume Lescuyer, Fidèle Mba Assoumou, Patrice Levang, et al.
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Rodents: food or pests in Neolithic Orkney2016 / Andrzej A. Romaniuk, Alexandra N. Shepherd, David V. Clarke, Alison J. Sheridan, Sheena Fraser, et al.
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Prisoners of Solitude: Bringing History to Bear on Prison Health Policy2016 / Margaret Charleroy, Hilary Marland
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Rice Domestication Revealed by Reduced Shattering of Archaeological rice from the Lower Yangtze valley2016 / Yunfei Zheng, Gary W. Crawford, Leping Jiang, Xugao Chen
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Barefoot and minimalist running: The current understanding of the evidence
Abstract Barefoot running and minimalist running have gained considerable popularity in the last years in the running community. This popularity has been achieved by bookseller Born to Run, some specific scientific publications, main stream media...
2016 / Craig Payne -
Natron glass production and supply in the late antique and early medieval Near East: The effect of the Byzantine-Islamic transition
Abstract Palestine and Egypt supplied the Mediterranean and Europe with virtually all of its glass for most of the first millennium CE. While the Muslim conquest in the 7th century saw major political and economic adjustment, immediate changes to...
2016 / Matt Phelps, Ian C. Freestone, Yael Gorin-Rosen, Bernard Gratuze -
A causal analysis framework for land-use change and the potential role of bioenergy policy
Abstract We propose a causal analysis framework to increase understanding of land-use change (LUC) and the reliability of LUC models. This health-sciences-inspired framework can be applied to determine probable causes of LUC in the context of...
2016 / Rebecca A. Efroymson, Keith L. Kline, Arild Angelsen, Peter H. Verburg, Virginia H. Dale, et al. -
Wleń/Lähn District in the Sudetes Foothills, Poland: A Case Study of Cultural Landscape Evolution of an East Central European Settlement Microregion From the Tenth to the Eighteenth Centuries2016 / Małgorzata Chorowska, Paweł Duma, Mirosław Furmanek, Maria Legut-Pintal, Anna Łuczak, et al.
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Evaluating three methods to estimate the number of individuals from a commingled context
Abstract An estimate of how many individuals are represented in a commingled assemblage is important to interpret the wider context (archaeologically or forensically), for further analyses, and for palaeodemographic studies. The aim of this study...
2016 / Nicole Lambacher, Karina Gerdau-Radonic, Emma Bonthorne, Francisco José Valle de Tarazaga Montero