The supracondylar process in subadult skeletal remains from Northern Italy (15th–18th century A.D.)

In the early 17th century, French and Portuguese colonizers and Jesuit priests settled in the state of Maranhão and made contact with the Guajajara, an ethnic group that lived along the margins of the Pindaré River. The Guajajara maintained contact with Brazilian national society over the centuries, including with Brazilian admixed populations, and with African slaves that flocked towards the region from the 18th century onwards. The present study investigates the origins of this admixture using mitochondrial genetic variability. The bones of 12 individuals investigated, which are currently part of the collection of the National Museum, were tested for genetic diversity. aDNA was extracted by the phenol-chloroform method and by DNA IQ (Promega, Madison, WI, USA). Amplification of the HVS I region was performed by PCR, followed by direct sequencing using the Big Dye kit (Life Technologies, Foster City, CA, USA). This region was found to represent haplogroups of Amerindians (A, C, and D) and Africans (L, L1b, L1c, and L3). The presence of African haplogroups in Guajajara bones from as early as the 18th century is consistent with historical and anthropological data, suggesting the admixture with Africans and/or Afrodescendants. Therefore, this study demonstrates that women with African haplogroups were introduced into the Guajajara population.

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CRITERIA AND TOOLS TO CATALOGUE BRICK-MASONRY VAULTS. THE GIS-DATABASE OF FRAME, A FASCE AND PLANTERIAN VAULTS BETWEEN THE 16TH AND 18TH CENTURY IN NORTHERN ITALY

10.4995/arqueologica9.2021.12084 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Chiara Stanga

Keyword(s):

18Th Century ◽

Northern Italy ◽

3D Modelling ◽

Brick Masonry ◽

The Novel ◽

Time And Space ◽

Gis Database ◽

Construction Techniques ◽

The Future ◽

Masonry Vaults

The paper describes a proposal for criteria and tools to catalogue brick-masonry vaulted systems in Northern Italy between the 16th and 18thcenturies. Along with the standard geometric typologies, three novel parameters (maîtresses voûtes, voûte sur le plan d'une autre voûte, constructive features) are proposed to include the constructive features in the vault taxonomy. The novel parameters help catalogue three vaulting types that can be considered the metamorphosis of cloister vaults: frame, a fasce, and planterian vaults. The database was realized in MS Access and then imported into QGIS 3.10. Database and GIS have been operative tools to form hypotheses on vault disseminations, highlighting the recurrences and specificities across time and space of some peculiar construction techniques. The database collects the acquired information on each vault (building type, geolocation, building date, vaulting type, vault dimensions and description and, whenever possible, photogrammetric survey, 3D modelling, and thermographic survey). In the future, the database should be published online, making the data available and building a broader dataset to share the information.

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The Remains of Arnau de Torroja, 9th Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Discovered in Verona

Genealogy ◽

10.3390/genealogy2040039 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 39

Author(s):

Leticia Galobart

Keyword(s):

18Th Century ◽

Skeletal Remains ◽

Military Strategy ◽

Crown Of Aragon ◽

The Family ◽

The City ◽

Knights Templar ◽

The Church

The members of the Torroja family were extremely important as advisers on political and military strategy to the counts of Barcelona (monarchs of the Crown of Aragon) Arnaldo was elected Grand Master of the Knights Templar (1181–1184). On 30 September 1184, the Templar Master passed away in the city of Veneto; Arnaldo de Torroja was buried at the church of San Vitale in Verona. The church was destroyed when the river Adige flooded it in the 18th century, and it was closed down in 1760 as a result of the damage caused. Some years ago, behind a wall, a sarcophagus was discovered on which was carved the typical Templar cross (Cross pattée) and, in 2016, it was opened by a team of Italian scientists. The skeletal remains corresponded to the age Arnaldo. Thanks to the book that I recently published “Armorial de los Obispos de Barcelona, siglos XII–XXI”, it has been realized that the sarcophagus of the brother of Arnaldo of Torroja, Guillermo is contained within the Family heraldry “Golden a castle of Gules”, they requested that the aforementioned bishop’s remains be analysed, in order to compare them with those of Arnaldo.

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Diet and Tooth Wear

Scottish Medical Journal ◽

10.1177/003693308803300415 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 313-315 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

N. W. Kerr

Keyword(s):

Causative Agent ◽

18Th Century ◽

Tooth Wear ◽

Skeletal Remains ◽

Human Skeletal Remains ◽

Normal Finding

Extensive tooth wear is the normal finding in human skeletal remains uncovered in Britain prior to the 18th century. There is little evidence as to the aetiological factors involved in this wear and this article is a suggestion as to a possible causative agent. It is one that appears to have been overlooked in the literature so far.

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Out of Place: Human Skeletal Remains from Non-Funerary Contexts. Northern Italy during the 1st Millennium BC

10.30861/9781407308838 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Vera Zanoni

Keyword(s):

Northern Italy ◽

Skeletal Remains ◽

Human Skeletal Remains

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Interpretative Reading of an Illusory Painted Wall

Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts - Handbook of Research on Visual Computing and Emerging Geometrical Design Tools ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0029-2.ch017 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 403-419

Author(s):

Francesca Porfiri

Keyword(s):

3D Reconstruction ◽

Flat Surface ◽

18Th Century ◽

Northern Italy ◽

Main Subject ◽

Historical Building ◽

Survey Techniques ◽

Architectural Representation ◽

Spatial Depth ◽

Architectural Survey

This study concerns architectural representation, and it focuses on the Quadratura issue: an illusory architecture painting where perspective creates the illusion of spatial depth on a flat surface. The main subject of this work is the study of the perspective scenes frescoed in the yards of historical building, during the 18th century in northern Italy, especially in Bologna; they represent architectural scenes, placed at the end of a promenade through the building. One of the most interesting example of these perspective frescoes in Bologna has been designed in 1761 by Antonio Galli Bibiena in Palazzo Vizzani's yard. This study aimed to approach a digital 3D-reconstruction of the scene, based on an accurate documentation and a combination of architectural survey techniques. Finally the digital reconstructed scene can be video-projected on the wall: it can simulate a viewer's eye guided across the building towards and inside the scene.

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Integrated Dating of the Construction and Restoration of the Modena Cathedral Vaults (Northern Italy): Preliminary Results

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/rdc.2020.10 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 62 (3) ◽

pp. 667-677 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

G Tirelli ◽

S Lugli ◽

A Galli ◽

I Hajdas ◽

A Lindroos ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Building Materials ◽

18Th Century ◽

Northern Italy ◽

Optically Stimulated Luminescence ◽

Tl Dating ◽

Preliminary Results ◽

15Th Century ◽

History Of ◽

Modena Cathedral ◽

Original Construction

ABSTRACTAfter the last damaging earthquake in 2012, an anti-seismic reinforcement project of the cathedral of Modena was designed giving us the opportunity to investigate and date the building materials. Radiocarbon (14C), optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), and thermoluminescence (TL) dating techniques were performed on the vaults with the aim to (1) clarify the construction timing, (2) define the history of the restorations, and (3) explore the possible correlation of the main restoration works to the earthquake chronology deduced from the historic catalog. Preliminary results show that medieval older bricks were reused for most of the original construction. Only lime and non-gypsum mortar was used for the original construction in the 15th century and for later repair of damage caused by earthquakes in the 16th and 17th centuries. Gypsum mortar was used for later repair in the 18th century. The results show much stronger damage due to earthquakes than previously thought.

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Dongola. Seasons in 2012–2013/ Appendix: The skeletal remains from the sanctuary of Anna in the Monastery on Kom H

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0009.9915 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol XXIV (1) ◽

pp. 325-343

Author(s):

Włodzimierz Godlewski ◽

Robert Mahler

Keyword(s):

18Th Century ◽

Skeletal Remains ◽

Anthropological Perspective ◽

The Third ◽

Four Seasons ◽

Archaeological Project ◽

Mediterranean Archaeology

The four seasons, two in 2012 and two in 2013, carried out in ancient Dongola by an expedition from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, were devoted to continuing excavations in a number of areas: the fortifications on the Citadel and houses from the Funj period (17th–18th century) outside of the fortifications; site SWN on the Citadel, including Building B.I (Palace of Ioannes) and Building B.V (church); and the monastery complex on Kom H, encompassing the monastic church, sanctuary of Anna, gates to the monastery for monks and laity, finally the commemorative building of the Dongolan bishops with three crypts where the third of the crypts was revisited to study the burials from an anthropological perspective. In late 2013, a new Qatar–Sudan Archaeological Project (No. 10) was launched with fieldwork concentrated on the Mosque Building and within the Citadel.

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