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Veerle Rots Prehension and hafting traces on flint tools
a methodology
The capacity to mount stone tools in or on a handle is considered an important innovation in past human behaviour. The insight to assemble two different materials (organic and inorganic) into a better functioning entity indicates the presence of the required mental capacity and technological expertise. Although the identification of stone tool use based on microscopic analysis was introduced in the 1960s, distinguishing between hand-held and hafted tool use has remained a more difficult issue. This...
Non-fictie
Engels | 296 pagina's (PDF, 4,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Ann Van Baelen The lower to middle palaeolithic transition in northwestern Europe
evidence from Kesselt-Op de Schans
A well‐preserved early Middle Palaeolithic site set against a wider northwestern European context The shift from Lower to Middle Palaeolithic in northwestern Europe (dated to around 300,000-250,000 years ago) remains poorly understood and underexplored compared to more recent archaeological transitions. During this period, stone tool technologies underwent significant changes but the limited number of known sites and the general low spatio‐temporal resolution of the archaeological record in many...
Non-fictie
Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 30 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Sagalassos, Marc Waelkens and interdisciplinary archaeology
The Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project has made interdisciplinary practices part of its scientific strategy from the very beginning. The project is internationally acknowledged for important achievements in this respect. Aspects of its approach to ancient Sagalassos can be considered ground-breaking for the archaeology of Anatolia and the wider fields of classical and Roman archaeology. Now that its first project director, Professor Marc Waelkens - University of Leuven -, is at the stage...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2013
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Andrew Shortland | Patrick Degryse When art isn't real
the world's most controversial objects under investigation
The art world is a multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. This book deals with one of the most-discussed areas of controversy: high-profile objects that have experts arguing about their veracity. Some may have been looted, others may be fakes, some may be heavily restored or misattributed. Often, in these cases, analytical science is called on to settle a dispute. The authors of this book have decades of experience in this field,...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 2,6 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Sofie Debruyne Woordenboek van archeologische termen
Nederlands-Engels, Engels-Nederlands; Dutch-English, English-Dutch
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 223 pagina's | Matrijs, Utrecht | 2008
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Minoan earthquakes
breaking the myth through interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinary study on the role of earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean. Does the "Minoan myth" still stand up to scientific scrutiny? Since the work of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos (Crete, Greece), the romanticized vision of the Cretan Bronze Age as an era of peaceful prosperity only interrupted by the catastrophic effects of natural disasters has captured the popular and scientific imagination. Its impact on the development of archaeology, archaeoseismology, and earthquake geology in the...
Non-fictie
Engels | 408 pagina's (PDF, 9,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Benjamin Roberts Sex, Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll in Rembrandt’s Time
Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in Rembrandt's Time focuses on the generation of rich young men that grew up in the seventeenth century in the Dutch Republic. These men had more money to spend on clothes, music, and recreation than the generation before them. This fascinating account of male adolescence in the Dutch Republic reveals how young men including Rembrandt van Rijn disregarded conservative values and rebelled against the older generation, and consequently created a new youth culture that was...
Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 5,4 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2024
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Jaapjan Zeeberg Five journeys
through the Arctic and a new Russia in search of Willem Barents
This is a book about the amazing journey of people discovering the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya, looking for traces of a small historical event against the backdrop of the ending of the Soviet Union. At the start of the age of exploration, the North Pole was believed to be hiding a continent, a land mass warmed by the midnight sun still inspiring today's 'Lost World' fantasies. In the summer of 1596, two ships departed from Amsterdam to sail by its shores. The nine-month struggle for survival of...
Engels | PDF, 24 MB | Aspect Publishers, Soesterberg | 2023
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Bert Thurlings Who created Egypt?
the hidden secrets of the Pharaohs
Based on scientifically established facts, we seem to be heading for the conclusion that a superintelligence helped humanity in its development. And may still be doing so.... Dr. Bert Thurlings is an inspired scientist, author of countless scientific articles, and employed by our largest electronics manufacturer. For many years he has been fascinated by the history of Ancient Egypt. Early on in his study of especially the technological achievements of the ancient Egyptians he encountered remarkable...
Engels | ePub2, 7,5 MB | [Aspekt Publishers], [Soesterberg] | 2023
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Bert Thurlings Bizarre legends, the CO2-syndrome, the mysteries of Ethiopia and the enigmatic king Salomon
weird mysteries, curious interpretations
The world is full of misunderstood mysteries. As tourists, we visit an ancient ruin, trying to imagine how it once was but not seeing the advanced technology that was used. Or we walk past some dusty pots in a museum but don't realize how they were made. We walk on and get on with the business of the day. Those stones? Surely they were just cut out of a rock, doesn't everyone know that? Those pots? You just bake them in an oven, right? Everyone knows that too, don't they? But then you scratch your...
Engels | ePub2 | Publisher Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
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Bert Thurlings Giants, wandering planets and lost knowledge
mysterious high-tech of the pharaohs, the demise of the giants and the prehistoric transatlantic contacts
Science is based on facts, that is common knowledge. But what if those facts contradict each other, what is true then? Does what "most scientists" think apply then? Rocks from the moon, collected with the Apollo flights, have an age of +/- 4.6 billion years. But one of them deviates seriously: 5.5 billion years old or even more. So what is the real age? Because people don't know, that one deviation is further ignored; after all, the majority points to 4.6 billion years anyway. But science is not...
Engels | ePub2 | [Uitgeverij Aspekt], Soesterberg | 2022
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Vincent Dumas The steel fist of the Blitzkrieg
the 1st Panzer Division 1939-1941
The 1st Panzer Division was an elite unit in the German army. This division was one of the core divisions that conquered Europe for Nazi Germany. This book highlights the "Blitzkrieg" days of the division, running from September 1939 (the invasion of Poland) to the battle of Moscow in 1941, where the German advance finally came to a halt. The history of the 1st Panzer Division shows in detail what the concept of 'Blitzkrieg' meant for a mobile division at the time. It is the history of a spectacular...
Engels | 88 pagina's (ePub2, 9,7 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2023
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Nicola Ford The hidden bones
Clare Hills en David Barbrook zijn twee archeologen die in een moordonderzoek terechtkomen als het archief van een opgraving in Zuid-Engeland mysterieus verdwijnt en er as wordt gevonden.
Fictie
Engels | 364 pagina's | a&b, London | 2019
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Aleksej Navalny Patriot
a memoir
Het levensverhaal van Aleksej Navalny.
Non-fictie
Engels | 479 pagina's | Alfred A. Knopf, New York | 2024
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Koen van Zon | Matthew Broad | Aleksandra Komornicka | Paul Reef | Alessandra Schimmel | Jorrit Steehouder The Unfinished History of European Integration
Revised Edition
The Unfinished History of European Integration is a companion to the history of the European Union. From the aftermath of the First World War to the EU of 27 member states and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it guides the reader past the main events, crucial sites and key actors that shaped the EU we know today. How did it evolve from a market project to a geopolitical force, what explains the expansion of its membership, institutions, policies and the resistance to this growth, and why does it function...
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 3 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2024
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Isotopes in vitreous materials
For all archaeological artefactual evidence, the study of the provenance, production technology and trade of raw materials must be based on archaeometry. Whereas the study of the provenance and trade of stone and ceramics is already well advanced, this is not necessarily the case for ancient glass. The nature of the raw materials used and the geographical location of their transformation into artefacts often remain unclear. Currently, these questions are addressed by the use of radiogenic isotope...
Non-fictie
Engels | 166 pagina's (PDF, 11 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Aris Gaaff Debts without redemption
cultural differences in First World War finance
Old war debts never die, they just fade away....... In 2015, Britain finally paid off a large war loan issued in 1917 to finance the First World War. In 2010, Germany made the last payments on some 80-year-old debts originally used to finance part of its reparations bill imposed by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. These were exceptions. The vast majority of the debts made during the Great War have never been paid back, including billion dollar loans from the US to western allies. These debts were...
Non-fictie
Engels | 402 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2022
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Kai Bird | Martin J. Sherwin American Prometheus
the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Biografie van de baanbrekende Amerikaanse natuurkundige (1904-1976) en directeur van het Manhattan Project, die verantwoordelijk was voor de ontwikkeling van de atoombom tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Met zwart-witfoto’s.
Non-fictie
Engels | 721 pagina's | Vintage Books, New York | 2024
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David Young A darker state
Majoor Karin Müller van de Oost-Duitse Volkspolizei onderzoekt de moord op een jongeman, maar wordt tegengewerkt door de Stasi, die de moord officieel als zelfmoord bestempelt.
Fictie
Engels | 360 pagina's | ZAFFRE, London | 2018
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Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain
Many of the most significant studies devoted to Ambrogio Spinola have focused on one particular aspect of his life: his successful military career. This volume, through its interdisciplinary and cultural approach, breaks open this all too narrow perspective and expands our understanding of Spinola and his world. As a great military strategist and Catholic knight, entrepreneur in the international finance market, courtier, and diplomat, Spinola was certainly a Genoese, but he was also a member of...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 16 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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