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The small Chapel of San Silvestro is located at the foot of the castrum on Monte San Martino (Lomaso, Trentino). There, a building that was part of an ancient villa was excavated in collaboration between the Department of Cultural... more
The aim of this study is to collect evidence for textile recycling from a prehistoric and historic perspective. The basis are original textile finds and not, as might be expected, written or pictorial sources. The material presented here... more
PANTELLERIA. THE SESE DI FRESCO EXCAVATION AND FINDS FROM DESTROYED SESES AT MURSIA. - The sese Di Fresco I excavations, an emispheric tomb with four chamber which one, found still closed, is a tholos dome, suggest for the first time... more
Im Laufe der archäologischen Ausgrabungsarbeiten in der Brooser Burg, konnten Bewohnungsspuren aus dem 8.-9. Jh. festgestellt werden, über die, im 10.-11. Jh. eine Burg mit Erdwall und Palisade errichtet wurde. In der ersten Hälfte des... more
Université Libre de Bruxelles. Année académique 2014-2015, première session. Mémoire présenté sous la direction de M. Eugène Warmenbol, en vue de l'obtention du titre de Master en Histoire de l'art et archéologie à Finalité Pratique de... more
This report documents the results of a two day survey of the crypt underlying the Non-conformist chapel at Sheffield General Cemetery, Sheffield (NGR SK 34132 85882), undertaken by the Department of Archaeology at the University of... more
"The megalithic tomb at Montelirio is off the scale in more ways than one. As well as being the largest example of its type known in Spain, the burial goods secreted in its subterranean chambers are unsurpassed in both quantity and... more
This book continues the subject of 2013 monograph Średniowieczne cmentarzysko w Czarnej Wielkiej, stan.1, woj. podlaskie (badania 1951-1978) [Medieval burial ground in Czarna Wielka, site 1, Podlasie Province (1951-1978 excavations)],... more
"This special issue of "Patrimonio Histórico" (Historical Heritage), the bulletin of the Andalusian Historical Heritage Institute, brings together a series of contributions aimed at disseminating the concept of megalithic heritage among... more
The megalithic phenomenon is one of the most exciting subjects of study in prehistory. The practice of monumentalising places of special significance by erecting large stones started during the Neolithic period, approximately 10.000 years... more
English abstract: Since the discovery in 1860 of La Pastora, one of the most beautiful and outstanding megalithic constructions of Iberia, the Copper Age and Bronze Age site of Valencina de la Concepción – Castilleja de Guzmán has... more
This volume has been prepared quickly, smoothly and cheerfully. This is, perhaps, because it is dedicated to the 70th birthday anniversary of a person who is always cheerful himself, an archaeologist, zealous and lucky researcher, a... more
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МОНГОЛ АЛТАЙН МӨНХ ЦЭВДГИЙН БУЛШ EISKURGAN DES MONGOLISCHEN ALTAJ. Ausstellungkatalog. - Ulan-Bator: Institut für Geschichte und Archäologie des Akademie der Wissenschaften der Mongolei, 2016
МОНГОЛ АЛТАЙН МӨНХ ЦЭВДГИЙН БУЛШ EISKURGAN DES MONGOLISCHEN ALTAJ. Ausstellungkatalog. - Ulan-Bator: Institut für Geschichte und Archäologie des Akademie der Wissenschaften der Mongolei, 2016
"This book presents the papers and discussions held at the second meeting of the European Megalithic Studies Group (Seville, Spain, November 2008). This is therefore a cooperative, international book that brings together leading... more
Le lit funéraire de Djéhoutyhotep provient de Deir el-Bercheh. Il est arrivé au Musée du Louvre en 1907. Dans cet article sont présentés, d'une part, les documents d'archives qui ont permis de retrouver sa provenance et les circonstances... more
This volume, second in a series of publications devoted to Panskoye I, presents the results of the 1969-1986 excavations in the necropolis of this important rural settlement in the territory of Tauric Chersonesos, north-western Crimea.... more
In 2015, the grandchildren of Endre Orosz, a self-thought archaeologist and collector who operated mainly in Cluj County, donated his archaeological collection to the Mureş County Museum. Cremated human remains of one of the Late Iron Age... more
Tereza Jošková – Vít Vokolek – Pavel Sankot The paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the still largely unattended activities from the La Tène period at the major polycultural site in Mikulovice, Pardubice distr., Czech Republic.... more
In what is now called the “Laurita Necropolis” —one of the burial grounds for a settlement on the southern Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula, in Almuñécar (Granada)— a Phoenician text painted on the outside of an alabaster urn... more
Dans le monde celtique, la deposition de monnaies dans les tombes est un phenomene plutot rare. La decouverte en 1999 de six sepultures contenant des monnaies dans la necropole de Berne/Reichenbachstrasse, a proximite de l'habitat... more
DZMITRY SKVARCHEUSKI STONES WITH THE IMAGE OF A POLE WITH A SEMICIRCLE: THE PROBLEMS OF ORIGIN, AREA, CLASSIFICATION AND DATING This article is about stones with images containing the symbol of a pole with a semicircle. This symbol had a... more
For thousands of years, men have struggled to establish their supremacy. At first, they used spirits to secure for themselves a function in a natural world that seemed to have taken sides with the feminine. Eventually, they created an... more