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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"necropolis"”.
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Necropolis: burial & afterlives in Cape Town
Necropolis is a proposal for a public burial and memorial park in Cape Town for obliterated (cremated, aquamated etc) and bone remains. It explores an architecture for the final farewell to the body and spirit of the deceased, and for personal and collective remembrance. In contrast to other South …
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The architecture of procession : political and spiritual pathways between the Qutb Shahi Necropolis and Golconda Fortress
… architecture in articulating the Qutb Shahi necropolis in southern India at the beginning of the Qutb Shahi dynasty (mid-16th C). More precisely, it analyzes two processional pathways that connected Golconda Fortress to the Qutb Shahi necropolis. The pathways were significant because of the …
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Archivi archeologici e archivi digitali. Progetto ARCHIAS: l’archivio digitale della necropoli di Siderospilia a Priniàs.
… ARCHIAS (Archive of the Iron Age Siderospilia Necropolis) è basato sulla creazione di un modello relazione (database), quale strumento applicato al patrimonio culturale. Attraverso la digitalizzazione di dati di scavo degli anni passati si è applicata una nuova metodologia di documentazione …
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Durability problems of the archaeological construction materials in aqueous and subaerial environments, with applications for restoration and conservation in Egypt and Sudan
… Nero/Ramses II Temple; coastal: Anfushi?s Necropolis; and fluvial: Abaton/Osiris Temple). To achieve this goal, field observations, analytical (X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, Raman spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectrometry), microscopic (binocular microscope, polarizing microscope and …
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Morienti cuncta supersunt. Archeologia funeraria e modelli di interazione culturale nella Sardegna meridionale tra età punica ed età romana: il caso della necropoli di Mitza de Siddi di Ortacesus (SU)
… research, particular attention is devoted to the necropolis of Mitza de Siddi in Ortacesus, a site that has been largely excavated and shows a remarkable continuity of use from the 3rd century BCE to the 3rd–4th century CE. The study will include a detailed analysis of the documented …
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Investigating the use of coca and other psychoactive plants in Pre-Columbian mummies from Chile and Peru. An analytical investigation into the feasibility of testing ancient hair for drug compounds.
… The 11 individuals from Peru came from the necropolis at Puruchuco-Huaquerones in the Rímac valley near Lima. These individuals belonged to the Ichma culture, but would have been under Inca imperial control during the Late Horizon. Although only a small sample, two-thirds tested positive for …
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Non-elite mortuary variability in the Early Dynastic Memphis region
… within the Memphite region ranging from a main necropolis (Helwan) to a cemetery of a secondary or tertiary local centre (Turah). The smallscale regionality observed at Memphis should serve as a springboard for future research on Early Dynastic Egypt. Finally, the study has highlighted the …
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Mitigating floods : reconstructing Lives : rehabilitating Thatta
… Thatta took refuge by fleeing to Makli Hill, a necropolis with mausoleums dating as far back as 1352A.D. The capital of three successive dynasties Thatta is famed for its cultural heritage and Makli Hill. Some four hundred thousand flood victims camped out on the hill most lacking any form of …
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A Mortuary Analysis of the Structure 7 Cemetery at Town Creek, a Mississippian Site in the Piedmont of North Carolina
… during the first half of the occupation to a necropolis later on. The cemeteries were created within the original public and domestic structures, the largest of which is Structure 7, the focus of this thesis. According to historic accounts of Southeastern Indian groups, communities were …
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BURIAL AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN ITALIAN IRON AGE NECROPOLES: TESTING A BIODISTANCE APPROACH
… and Campovalano represents a nearly complete necropolis. Most data from these Iron Age semi-transhumant agropastoralists comes from mortuary rather than settlement contexts. Thus, burial location is a central archaeological theme because of its potential to indicate corporate land ownership, …
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Positions
This companion of short essays, images and drawings are parts to a whole: a series of independent studies in search of architectural understandings. While this "project" has been underway for several years, until recently the thread of relevance between studies has been untethered. Now at the end, …
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Autour du harem de Thoutmosis III. Etude du matériel provenant de Gourob et conservé aux Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles
Le site actuel de Médinet el-Gourob correspond au domaine royal antique de Mi-Our, expression qui signifie « le grand canal ». Il se situe en Moyenne Egypte, à un emplacement stratégique qui marque l’entrée de la zone du Fayoum. Durant le Nouvel Empire, Thoutmosis III (ca 1479-1425 avant notre ère) …
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The wanderer: peregrinations in eldritch regions
… foul entities in a cavern beneath the Glasgow Necropolis, suffers a very similar affliction: 'Over the next few days his [right] arm grew more enfeebled, took on a necrotic hue, and began to stink of rottenness.' After reading 'More Things in Heaven… and noting all these correspondences, I …