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A Mid-Republican House From Gabii
Since 2009 the Gabii Project, an international archaeological initiative led by Nicola Terrenato and the University of Michigan, has been investigating the ancient Latin town of Gabii, which was both a neighbor of, and a rival to, Rome in the first millennium BCE. The trajectory of Gabii, from an Iron Age settlement to a flourishing mid-Republican town to an Imperial agglomeration widely though…
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- 9780472999002
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- 930.1 MID m
Biogeographic Atlas Of the Southern Ocean
Famous lines from the diary of explorer Robert F. Scott, 17 January, 1912: “Great God! This is an awful place, and terrible enough for us to have labored to it without the reward of priority. Now for the run home, and a desperate struggle.” Scott and his companions would starve, freeze, and die ten weeks later in an Antarctic blizzard, disheartened by the knowledge that Roald Amundsen had …
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- 978-0-948277-28-3.
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- 910 BRO b
Chapter the Revival of Cassiodorus’ Variae in the High Middle Ages (10th-11…
This paper is based on a number of reuses of Cassiodorus’ Variae that have been found in notarial documents written in Rome and Lazio between the tenth and eleventh century. Given that the manuscript tradition of the Variae becomes visible only from the twelfth-thirteenth centuries onwards, these reuses are a good starting point to reflect on a specific question: what were the practical …
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- 9788855186643
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- Pages 20
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- 900 INT c
Clarendon Palace. the History and Archaeology of a Medieval Palace and Huntin…
This volume gives an account of all the excavations undertaken at Clarendon in the twentieth century, including those of 1933–9 led by John Charlton and Tancred Borenius and the excavations by Elizabeth Eames and John Musty in the 1950s and 1960s. The history, archaeology and finds are examined together for the first time to present a detailed picture of palace life.
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- 9780854312481, 9780854312481
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- 260
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- Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 45
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- 930.1 BEA c
Glass Making in the Greco-Roman World: Results of the Archglass Project
This book presents a reconstruction of the Hellenistic-Roman glass industry from the point of view of raw material procurement. Within the ERC funded ARCHGLASS project, the authors of this work developed new geochemical techniques to provenance primary glass making. They investigated both production and consumer sites of glass, and identified suitable mineral resources for glass making through …
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- 9789461661579
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- 190
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- Studies in Archaeological Sciences, 4
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- 930.1 DEG g
Connected & disconnected in Viet Nam : remaking social relations in a post-…
Vietnam’s shift to a market-based society has brought about profound realignments in its people’s relations with each other. As the nation continues its retreat from the legacies of war and socialism, significant social rifts have emerged that divide citizens by class, region and ethnicity. By drawing on social connections as a traditional resource, Vietnamese are able to accumulate wealth,…
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- 9781925022926
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- 959.7044
States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-…
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work—passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks—inside virtual w…
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- 9780262358606
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The Makassar Annals
The Makassar annals Translated and edited by William Cummings Beginning in the 1630s, a series of annalists at the main courts of Makassar began keeping records with dated entries that recorded a wide variety of specific historical information about a wide variety of topics, including the births and deaths of notable individuals, the actions of rulers, the spread of Islam, trade and diplomacy, …
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- 9789004253629
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- 368
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- Biblioteca Indonesica, 35
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- 900 MAK m
Electric Worlds / Mondes électriques: Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Tra…
What interpretation(s) do today’s historians make of electrification? Electrification is a process which began almost a hundred and fifty years ago but which more than one billion men and women still do not have access to. This book displays the social diversity of the electric worlds and of the approaches to their history. It updates the historical knowledge and shows the renewal of the hist…
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- 9782807600294;9782875743305
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- Histoire de l’énergie/History of Energy, 8
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- 909.0223 ELE e
Star Carr Volume 2: Studies in Technology, Subsistence and Environment
"Star Carr is one of the most important Mesolithic sites in Europe. It was discovered in the late 1940s by John Moore and then excavated by Grahame Clark from 1949-1951, becoming famous in the archaeological world for the wealth of rare organic remains uncovered including barbed antler points and antler headdresses. However, since the original excavations there has been much debate about how th…
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- 9781912482016
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