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A Mediterranean melting pot. Excavating uni-parental genetic strata in Sicily and Southern Italy
2013
Research and Science Today No. 1(5)/2013
2013
Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas: Social Sciences, Economic Sciences, Legal Sciences, Humanities, Education Sciences, Engineering, Medicine and Sport. This journal provides students the opportunity to create and/or to improve their abilities to write scientific papers. So each appearance (two appearances per year at which we can add supplements) contains a number of papers written by students, masters and doctoral from the faculties…
The staging culture : an experiment to comprehend commodification through visual ethnography
2015
In this Bachelor’s thesis the emphasis is to experiment the ways in which commodificated cultural representations can be captured and examined through the use of visual ethnography as well as expand the current understanding on Dean MacCannell’s theory on the six stages of authenticity set forward in his book The Tourist: A new theory of the leisure class (2013). The visual material for the thesis was collected from Agadir, Morocco in 2014.
Thaon, Calvados, Église Saint-Pierre, (14.685.003.AH) : fouille programmée annuelle 2010
2010
La campagne 2010 a permis l’achèvement de la fouille du chœur avec la mise au jour d’une nouvelle maçonnerie associable aux niveaux antiques du site, et l’identification de sépultures supplémentaires portant le nombre total d’inhumations inventoriées jusqu’à présent à 405 individus.
Exemples de conservation de bois : trois types d’aménagements funéraires du VIIe au XVIIIe siècle à Thaon (Calvados)
2009
The excavations started inside and in the immediate neighbourhood of the roman church Saint-Pierre of Thaon since 1998 have enabled to underline several phases of occupation between the IInd century AD and the XIIth with, from the VIIth century, the establishment of a church modified repeatedly. Among 437 burials (from VIIth to XVIIIth century), devices combining wood and stones (cofferings) or showing important remains of wood perfectly preserved (whole boards of coffin nailed down and pegged) were studied and are presented in this article.
NEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA FROM THE ARCHAIC CEMETERY AT MOTYA
2014
The archaic necropolis at Motya has been long recognized as a site of great interest for the study of Phoenician burial customs in the West. Since its discovery by Joseph Whitaker more than a century ago, over 300 burials have been brought to light - mainly dating to the late 8th-7th century BC. Burials are characterized by jars used as urns and box-shaped stone cists containing the ashes and burnt bones of the dead. These are indeed secondary cremations, a very common funerary ritual of the Iron Age in the Phoenician homeland and in the colonies overseas. Despite the relevant bearing of this cemetery on historical and cultural grounds, anthropological analysis unfortunately has been mostly…
Welfare State Development, Individual Deprivations and Income Inequality: A cross-country analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean
2019
Several scholars have confirmed the role that the welfare state (WS) plays in reducing poverty, promoting equality and ensuring the common wellbeing. One of the limitations of the scholarship has been the conceptualization and operationalization of the WS and poverty as one-dimensional variables. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between welfare state development –as a one-dimensional and multidimensional variable-, single-dimensions deprivations and income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean, before and after controlling for demographic and cyclical factors. The WS is operationalized taking into account its multidimensional nature. Three individual deprivat…
Reply to Ben-Dor and Barkai: A low Zn isotope ratio is not equal to a low Zn content
2023
However, we are afraid that there was a misunderstanding in the interpretation of our data. Ben-Dor and Barkai (2) wrote that "One explanation presented in the [our] paper was that Neandertals may have consumed body parts and animals that were relatively poor in zinc, like the liver or deer." This sentence is not reflecting our conclusions: We discussed Zn isotope ratios (i.e., 66Zn/64Zn ratio expressed as a δ66Zn value) and not Zn concentrations. To explain low δ66Zn values of the Neandertal tooth, we propose that Neandertals ate food items depleted in heavy Zn isotopes (and therefore enriched in light Zn isotopes), but those foods can have variable Zn contents, independent of the Zn isoto…
Perceived Reciprocity and Well-Being at Work in Non-Professional Employees: Fairness or Self-Interest?
2012
This article assesses the links between non-professional employees' perceptions of reciprocity in their relationships with their supervisors and the positive and negative sides of employees' well-being at work: burnout and engagement. Two hypotheses were explored. First, the fairness hypothesis assumes a curvilinear relationship where balanced reciprocity (when the person perceives that there is equilibrium between his/her efforts and the benefits he/she receives) presents the highest level of well-being. Second, the self-interest hypothesis proposes a linear pattern where over-benefitted situations for employees (when the person perceives that he/she is receiving more than he/she deserves)…
Data Banks and Multivariate Statistics in Physical Anthropology
1984
In recent decades, the fields of administration and economy, the press and - last but not least - the sciences have been characterized by an “explosion of knowledge”, and, as a consequence, by the problem of managing the rapidly increasing mass of information. It has been estimated that knowledge doubles each five years, and even that the interval of doubling seems to decrease. The main response to this challenge are computerized and structured data collections called data banks. “Data banks are systems of data collections which are organized according to logical and/or formal criteria; they should make it possible to reproduce the data of the total collection arranged according to differen…