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Impromptu Conservation – Unveiling Huế's Mnemonic Sites: Heritagization, (de)Colonization, and Place-making
This dissertation interrogates postcolonial cities’ syncretic territories, using Huế’s mnemonic sites – historically and culturally significant locales that aid in remembrance – to explore displaced communities’ cohabitation tactics and decolonization effo ...
EPFL2023Systematic selection of field response measurements for excavation back analysis
In a geotechnical excavation, back analyses are routinely performed using the measured field responses to derive the material parameter values for the different soil layers present at the site. For the purpose of back analyses, the engineers will usually m ...
2021Stabilization of cultural innovations depends on population density: Testing an epidemiological model of cultural evolution against a global dataset of rock art sites and climate-based estimates of ancient population densities
John Richard Walker, Taylor Howard Newton, Francesco Casalegno
Demographic models of human cultural evolution have high explanatory potential but weak empirical support. Here we use a global dataset of rock art sites and climate and genetics-based estimates of ancient population densities to test a new model based on ...
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2021Mycobacterium leprae genomes from a British medieval leprosy hospital: towards understanding an ancient epidemic
Stewart Cole, Pushpendra Singh
Background: Leprosy has afflicted humankind throughout history leaving evidence in both early texts and the archaeological record. In Britain, leprosy was widespread throughout the Middle Ages until its gradual and unexplained decline between the 14th and ...
Biomed Central Ltd2014Investigation of genetic diversity of domestic C. hircus breeds reared within an early goat domestication area in Iran
Iran is an area of particular interest for investigating goat diversity. Archaeological remains indicate early goat domestication (about 10 000 years ago) in the Iranian Zagros Mountains as well as in the high Euphrates valley and southeastern Anatolia. In ...
EDP Sciences2014Care. Emerging Natures
The work addresses research by design as a subject and a method. It explores theorizations, experimentations, and verifications, all of them engaged in writing, drawing and building. It is discovery-led, and starts from a blurry "state of the arts". It osc ...
EPFL2012Statistical Shape Descriptors for Ancient Maya Hieroglyphs Analysis
The preservation, analysis, and management of valuable and fragile historical and cultural materials with digital technologies is a field of multidisciplinary nature, and significant to the society at large. The benefits of using visual and multimedia anal ...
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne2012"Ad moenia": il complesso basilicale e conventuale di San Severo e San Ruphilii (ENG) "Ad moenia": the complex of Saint Severo basilica and Saint Ruphilii monastery in Classe (Ravenna)”
The dissertation “Archaeological area of Classe: memory and identity of a buried place” introduces a strategic and global masterplan to set a new dialogue between the ancient traces of the Ravenna’s harbour and the system of fascinating Early Christian bas ...
2011Mycobacterium leprae genotype amplified from an archaeological case of lepromatous leprosy in Central Asia
We have amplified Mycobacterium leprae DNA from the skeleton of an adult human female exhibiting signs of lepromatous leprosy (LL). The remains were excavated from the site of Devkesken 6 on the Ustyurt plateau of Uzbekistan and date to between the 1st and ...
2009Multiproxy study of anthropogenic and climatic changes in the last two millennia from a small mire in central Poland
The Żabieniec kettle-hole is the first peatland in central Poland analysed quantitatively with four biotic proxies (plant macrofossils, pollen, testate amoebae and chironomids) in order to reconstruct past environmental change. Palaeoecological data were s ...
Springer Netherlands2009