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Geographical variation in and evolutionary history of the Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) with the description of a new subspecies from Borneo
Recent morphological and molecular studies led to the recognition of two extant species of clouded leopards; Neofelis nebulosa from mainland southeast Asia and Neofelis diardi from the Sunda Islands of Borneo and Sumatra, including the Batu Islands. In addition to these new species-level distinctions, preliminary molecular data suggested a genetic...Wilting, A ; Christiansen, P ; Kitchener, Andrew C ; Kemp, Y J M ; Ambu, L …
Taxonomy, Toba volcanic eruption, Sunda shelf, Pleistocene, Holotype, and Biogeography
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The 17th dynasty gold necklace from Qurneh, Egypt
In 1908, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie discovered a rich intact burial of an adult and child at Qurneh, near Luxor. Stylistically, the burial has been dated to the late 17th Dynasty, in the 16th century BC. The complete burial group came to Edinburgh in 1909. A recent examination of the...Tate, Jim ; Eremin, Katherine ; Troalen, Lore ; Guerra, Maria Filomena ; Goring, Elizabeth …
Qurneh, mummy, ring manufacture, and necklace
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Phylogenetic relationships of leptellinid brachiopods
The relationships among the diverse genera comprising the family Leptellinidae (Brachiopoda) are reviewed in the light of the revised edition of the Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology. Taxonomic work reassessed all the genera identified as Leptellinidae in the most current classification. Four genera were discarded, namely Bekkerella, Benignites, Leptastichidia and Nikitinamena....Candela, Yves
Biogeography, taxor, cladistics, Palaeozoic, Ordovician, Leptellinidae, taxonomy, and Brachiopoda
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Modern and ancient gold jewellery attributed to the Etruscans: a science based study
A fibula with a lion and a pair of cluster earrings from the collection of the Florence National Museum of Archaeology, attributed to the Etruscans and said to originate from Populonia but suspected to be modern productions, were studied in the framework of the European project AUTHENTICO. They were compared...Rastrelli, A ; Miccio, M ; Troalen, Lore ; Martinón-Torres, M ; Guerra, Maria Filomena …
SEM, Etruscan, fake, goldwork, stereomicroscope, LIPS, and XRF
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Technological study of gold jewellery pieces dated from Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom in Egypt
This paper presents a technological study of items of Egyptian jewellery from the collections of the National Museums Scotland: a pendant from the 19th century BC; objects from the 16th century BC royal burial unearthed at Qurneh; two gold finger-rings dated to the 14th century BC; and a group of...Troalen, Lore ; Guerra, Maria Filomena ; Tate, Jim ; Manley, W P
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Excavations at Upper Largie quarry, Argyll & Bute, Scotland: new light on the prehistoric ritual landscape of the Kilmartin Glen
Excavations were carried out intermittently between 1982 and 2005, by various excavators, in advance of quarrying activity at Upper Largie, Kilmartin Glen, Argyll & Bute. They revealed abundant evidence of prehistoric activity, dating from the Mesolithic to the Middle Bronze Age, on a fluvioglacial terrace overlooking the rest of the...Sheridan, J A ; Cook, M ; Ellis, C
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The pottery. In: A Becket & G MacGregor, Forest grazing and seaweed foddering: early Neolithic occupation at Maybole, South Ayrshire, 114-117
Excavation of a well-preserved upstanding roundhouse revetted into a steep hillside at Navidale has revealed a structure with unusually sophisticated architectural traits dated to around 1400–1200 bc. The house was built within an agricultural landscape but its abandonment appears to have been linked to a cessation of agriculture within that...Sheridan, J A
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Roman Britain in 2009 2. Scotland
Hunter, Fraser