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Use of Bacteria To Stabilize Archaeological Iron

Iron artifacts are common among the findings of archaeological excavations. The corrosion layer formed on these objects requires stabilization after their recovery, without which the destruction of the item due to physicochemical damage is likely. Current ...

American Society for Microbiology2017

Mycobacterium 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 Ltd2014

Investigation of genetic diversity of domestic C. hircus breeds reared within an early goat domestication area in Iran

Stéphane Joost

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 Sciences2014

Care. Emerging Natures

Pieter Versteegh

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 ...

EPFL2012

Origini costruttive della colonna greca

Maria Chiara Barone

Despite the large number of writings on the Vitruvian theory relating to the mythical wood-worked origins of the Greek temple, there has been no recent writing on Ancient Greek buildings before De Architectura was published, in the period between the appea ...

EPFL2010

Multiproxy study of anthropogenic and climatic changes in the last two millennia from a small mire in central Poland

Mariusz Lamentowicz

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

Populating Ancient Pompeii with Crowds of Virtual Romans

Daniel Thalmann, Jonathan Maim, Barbara Yersin

Pompeii was a Roman city, destroyed and completely buried during an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius. We have revived its past by creating a 3D model of its previous appearance and populated it with crowds of Virtual Romans. In this paper, we detail ...

2007

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