History and archaeology topic list of research papers
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Range expansion of the golden jackal (Canis aureus) into Poland: first records2015 / Rafał Kowalczyk, Marta Kołodziej-Sobocińska, Iwona Ruczyńska, Jan M. Wójcik
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Portable Storage and Data Loss2008 / Stephen Farrell
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Direct and indirect effects of climate and fishing on changes in coastal ecosystem services: a historical perspective from the North Sea2014 / Samiya A. Selim, Julia L. Blanchard, Jacob Bedford, Thomas J. Webb
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On the importance of blind testing in archaeological science: the example from lithic functional studies
Abstract Blind-testing is an important tool that should be used by all analytical fields as an approach for validating method. Several fields do this well outside of archaeological science. It is unfortunate that many applied methods do not have a...
2013 / Adrian Anthony Evans -
Implementation of large-scale routine diagnostics using whole slide imaging in Sweden: Digital pathology experiences 2006-20132014 / Jesper Molin, Sten Thorstenson, Claes Lundström
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Poverty and Remoteness Contribute to Ethnic Tensions in the Sacred Altai Mountains: An Interview with Vladimir Sabin, Member of Parliament, Altai Republic2006 / Yuri P. Badenkov
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Sediment accumulation, stratigraphic order, and the extent of time-averaging in lagoonal sediments: a comparison of 210Pb and 14C/amino acid racemization chronologies2014 / Matthew A. Kosnik, Quan Hua, Darrell S. Kaufman, Atun Zawadzki
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Space–time trends in Spanish bird electrocution rates from alternative information sources
Abstract Interaction with man-made infrastructures is one of the main sources of non-natural bird mortality. Here, we use a long-term study (1980–2010) to analyse spatial and temporal patterns in avian electrocution in Spain, using ringed birds as...
2015 / Francisco Guil, M. Àngels Colomer, Rubén Moreno-Opo, Antoni Margalida -
Ancient glass: from kaleidoscope to crystal ball
Abstract Research over the last few decades has greatly enhanced our understanding of the production and distribution of glass across time and space, resulting in an almost kaleidoscopically colourful and complex picture. We now recognise several...
2015 / Th. Rehren, Ian C. Freestone -
The Global Spread of Asbestos
Abstract Background Asbestos continues to be used in large quantities around the world and to be an important commodity in global trade. Objective To assess and...
2014 / Arthur L. Frank, T.K. Joshi -
Changes in glass consumption in Pergamon (Turkey) from Hellenistic to late Byzantine and Islamic times
Abstract We present compositional data for nearly 100 glass samples from Pergamon, western Turkey, spanning 1500 years from the Hellenistic to Late Byzantine and Islamic periods. The data shows the use of already-known Roman glass groups during the...
2015 / Th. Rehren, P. Connolly, N. Schibille, H. Schwarzer -
When foods become remedies in ancient Greece: The curious case of garlic and other substances
Abstract Ethnopharmacological relevance The debate on the food-drug continuum could benefit from a historical dimension. This study aims at showing this through one case: the food-drug continuum in Greece in the fifth- and...
2014 / Laurence Totelin -
What's the catch? Validity of whaling data for Japanese catches of sperm whales in the North Pacific2015 / Yulia V. Ivashchenko, Phillip J. Clapham
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Towards the European eradication of the North American ruddy duck2014 / P. A. Robertson, T. Adriaens, A. Caizergues, P. A. Cranswick, K. Devos, et al.
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Examining the case for the use of the Tertiary as a formal period or informal unit
Abstract The ‘Tertiary’, omitted from IUGS-approved timescales since 1989, is still in common use. With the recent re-instatement of the Quaternary as a formal unit, the question arises as to whether the Tertiary too should be reinstated as a formal ...
2012 / R.W.O’B. Knox, P.N. Pearson, T.L. Barry, D.J. Condon, J.C.W. Cope, et al. -
Confrontational scavenging as a possible source for language and cooperation2011 / Derek Bickerton, Eörs Szathmáry
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Best period for high spatial resolution satellite images for the detection of marks of buried structures
Abstract Improvements in sensor technology in recent decades led to the creation of ground, air and space imaging systems, whose data can be used in archaeological studies. Greece is one of the lucky areas that are rich in archaeological heritage....
2012 / Dimitrios Kaimaris, Petros Patias, Maria Tsakiri -
EASL transitioning into the new decade2009 / Heiner Wedemeyer
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Philosophy as Hermeneutics. The World of the Text Concept in Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics
Abstract The purpose of the present study is to bring into discussion the articulations of Paul Ricoeur's concept regarding philosophy as a hermeneutic exercise. We aim to show that Ricoeur's phenomenological hermeneutics expresses a radical...
2013 / Iasmina Petrovici -
The social dynamics of consent and refusal in HIV surveillance in rural South Africa
Abstract In the context of low rates of participation in a prospective, population-based HIV surveillance programme, researchers at a surveillance site in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, conducted an operational study from January 2009 to...
2012 / Lindsey Reynolds, Thomas Cousins, Marie-Louise Newell, John Imrie