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Impact of the CAP on Archaeological Heritage

Karl Cordemans, Emmet Byrnes & Cees van Rooijen This paper seeks to summarise the origin and evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in terms of the impact its policies and measures have had – and continue to have – on archaeological features and sites situated on arable land. The effects have been very obvious
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Towards New Commons and Sharing Interests In The Landscape

Bas Pedroli Heritage values represent a common good, contributing to societal identity. Landscape is a topical issue because it represents character and identity in both a spatial and a temporal dimension, uniting natural and cultural aspects of heritage at the same time. Especially in Europe, practically all natural heritage can be considered cultural heritage as
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Heritage Management. The Natural And Cultural Divide

Heleen van Londen, Marjo Schlaman, Arkadiusz Marciniak In 2005, David Lowenthal commented on the dissimilar approaches to natural and cultural heritage and how these differences impact the protection and management of these heritages. His analysis touches on the western European perceptions of nature and culture that go back to the Age of Enlightenment. In his
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Ex Novo n. 4 - Foreword

Maja Gori, Martina Revello Lami, Alessandro Pintucci The fourth volume of Ex Novo has the pleasure to host Heleen van Londen, Marjo Schlaman, and Andrea Travaglia as guest editors of the special issue titled The Natural and The Cultural. Integrating Approaches in Landscape Heritage Management. This timely collection of peer-reviewed papers and short essays seek
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Heritage Management. The Natural and Cultural Divide

Ex Novo Vol. 4, December 2019 Edited by H. Van Londen, M. J. Schlaman, A. Travaglia The fourth volume of Ex Novo has the pleasure to host Heleen van Londen, Marjo J. Schlaman, and Andrea Travaglia as guest editors of the special issue titled The Natural and The Cultural. Integrating Approaches in Landscape Heritage Management.
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Myths and Fragments from a Different Time Contemporary art exhibition by Elisa Cella and Hitnes Museo Civico Etrusco Romano di Trevignano Romano (Rome – IT) Sunday 17th July – Sunday 16th October 2016 The Etrusco-Roman Museum is pleased to announce the opening of The sunken Collection. Myths and Fragments from a Different Time, a temporary
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Book Review: ArcheoSocial, eds. A. Falcone & A. D’Eredità

(by Paola di Giuseppantonio Di Franco) ArcheoSocial. L’archeologia riscrive il web: esperienze, strategie e buone pratiche, A cura di Antonia Falcone & Astrid D’Eredità, DiElle Editore 2018 La sintesi di questo volume è sapientemente offerta nel titolo: AcheoSocial è una contrazione di ‘Archeologia Sociale’, un’archeologia che sappia parlare di sé, attraverso gli strumenti della comunicazione
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From war material culture to popular heritage, and beyond

(by Jesús García Sánchez) From War Material Culture to Popular Heritage, and Beyond. The “PSP – Cancelli di Venosa” as Paradigms of Object Biography Theory Using object biography and Behavioral Archaeology as main theoretical frameworks this paper will examine how the pierced steel planks (PSP), also called Marston mat, become cancelli di Venosa (Venosa’s doors)
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Exploring Immigrant Identities (17th Century Amsterdam)

(by Marijn Stolk) Exploring Immigrant Identities: The Link between Portuguese Ceramics and Sephardic Immigrants in 17th Century Amsterdam During urban expansions around 1600 a new neighborhood, Vlooienburg, was created in the rapidly growing city of Amsterdam. This new district was not just inhabited by local people, but also by immigrants coming from different European countries.
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A Road to Fīrūzābād

(by Domiziana Rossi) A Road to Fīrūzābād A serpentine path created by the river Tang-āb through the Zagros Mountains has always been the only access from north to the city of Ardašīr-Xwarrah, located at five kilometers west from the modern Fīrūzābād, in Iran. This inaccessibility prompted the king of Fārs Ardašīr to found his stronghold
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