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Stratigraphy (archaeology)

Related publications (4)

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

Mycobacterium leprae genotype amplified from an archaeological case of lepromatous leprosy in Central Asia

Stewart Cole

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 ...

2009

The city transforms: changing perceptions of urban identity : (case study - the path of remembrance and comradeship in Ljubljana)

Stephen Diskin

The city in the twenty-first century is in the midst of dramatic changes, and yet many have yet to fully manifest themselves, still concealed in technology and distributed enough to escape general understanding within the existing context of built form. Te ...

EPFL2008

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