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Analysis of Early Medieval metalworking and metalworking waste
The crannog on Llangorse Lake near Brecon in mid Wales was discovered in 1867 and first excavated in 1869 by two local antiquaries, Edgar and Henry Dumbleton, who published their findings over the next four years. In 1988 dendrochronological dates from submerged palisade planks established its construction in the ninth...Northover, P
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Shale lignite and cannel coal ring
The crannog on Llangorse Lake near Brecon in mid Wales was discovered in 1867 and first excavated in 1869 by two local antiquaries, Edgar and Henry Dumbleton, who published their findings over the next four years. In 1988 dendrochronological dates from submerged palisade planks established its construction in the ninth...Redknap, Mark ; Davis, Mary
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Collaboration. In: Y. Pailler, M. Errera, J. Rolet 'L’outillage poli et les objets de parure'
The polished material discovered during the excavations of the site is limited to twenty-two objects. Their petrographic and spectroradiometric allows us to define exploited rocks and in some cases to provide the source of raw materials. Polished stone axes are highly fragmented and exclusively made of fibrolites. Two continental sources...Troalen, Lore
megaliths, Molène Archipelago, households, domestic architecture, Bronze Age, Brittany, prehistoric subsistence, multidisciplinary research, Bretagne, and Neolithic archaeology
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Disc-rings of Alpine rock in western Europe: typology, chronology, distribution and social significance
In France, disc-rings made from Alpine jades and from serpentinite circulated over very long distances, as far as the Channel coast and that of Brittany. The authors offer here a typo-chronological study of these and other stone bangles, according to the types of rock used, and consider their distribution and...Pétrequin, P ; Cassen, S ; Errera, M ; Pailler, Yves ; Prodéo, F …
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Miller's most important geological discovery’: Archibald Geikie (1835–1924) as pupil and memorialist of Hugh Miller (1802–56)
Hugh Miller, stonemason turned writer, newspaper editor and geologist, became the young Archibald Geikie’s friend and geological mentor, encouraged his first research and presentation to a learned society, and recommended him to the Geological Survey, thus laying the foundations for a career that reached the top of British science. Geikie...Taylor, Michael A
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Neolithic and Early Bronze Age flint from the Area 10 watching brief
Between 2006 and 2009 Worcestershire Archaeology completed a series of investigations in advance of quarrying at Clifton Quarry, Worcestershire revealing one of the most important sequences of prehistoric to early medieval activity discovered to date from the Central Severn Valley. Well-preserved palaeoenvironmental deposits were recovered from features and associated abandoned...Anderson-Whymark, Hugo
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The remarkable palaeodiversity in Burmese amber
Ross, Andrew
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Autobiography and documentable fact in the family background and religious affiliation of Archibald Geikie (1835–1924)
In his autobiography of 1924, Archibald Geikie (1835–1924) suppressed basic information about his family and religious beliefs. Investigation reveals a more complete picture of those aspects of Geikie’s life. He was brought up in a strongly religious family, of Congregational affiliation, which he himself followed as a young man. His...Taylor, Michael A
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Anneaux, marqueurs de statut, objets consacrés et quasi-monnaies
Le projet ANR JADE 2 (2013-2017) concerne l'ensemble de l'Europe – entre Atlantique et mer Noire – où les transferts de jades ont été alimentés par deux centres de production : l'île égéenne de Syros dès la fin du VIIe millénaire ; et les massifs alpins du Mont Beigua et...Pétrequin, Pierre ; Cassen, S ; Errera, M ; Pailler, Yves ; Prodéo, F …
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The Europe of jade: from the Alps to the Black Sea
As it appears in diverse guises – and notably as a founding narrative – the past is at the core of every functioning human society. The idea that the past can be known through scientific research has long been a fundamental challenge for western societies and for European researchers, from...Pétrequin, P ; Cassen, S ; Errera, M ; Sheridan, J A ; Tsonev, T …
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