An insufficient number of archaeological surveys has been carried out to date on Harappan Civilization cemeteries. One case in point is the necropolis at Rakhigarhi site (Haryana, India), one of the largest cities of the Harappan Civilization, where most burials within the cemetery remained uninvestigated. Over the course of the past three seasons (2013 to 2016), we therefore conducted excavati...

in this study, a hybrid intelligent model has been designed to predict groundwater inflow to a mine pit during its advance. novel hybrid method coupling artificial neural network (ann) with genetic algorithm (ga) called ann-ga, was utilised. ratios of pit depth to aquifer thickness, pit bottom radius to its top radius, inverse of pit advance time and the hydraulic head (hh) in the observation w...

This paper presents the results of an isotopic investigation of population and dietary diversity in Roman Gloucester, focusing on individuals found in a late 2nd century AD mass burial pit at London Road, and comparing them to those found in the nearby cemetery. There were no statistical differences in isotopic composition between mass grave and cemetery burials, suggesting, in agreement with t...

abandoned surface mine excavations can be a major environmental, social and/or human healthproblem for the mining industry as well as for the community living nearby. this problem is exacerbated by therapidly growing population encroaching on areas of historic mined lands. the aim of this studywas to assess thesafety status of the historic nyala mine excavation with the purpose of coming up wit...

ABSTRACT Radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating was applied to the Neolithic open-air, flat-extended settlement at Revenia-Korinos in Pieria, North Greece. The samples came from earlier habitation period of settlement, characterized by more than 100 pits that vary significantly shape and dimensions, some them being identified as subterranean or semi-subterranean pit dwellings. It is suggested fills were re...

The paper for the first time publishes and analyzes materials obtained in study of burial child no. 10 barrow 16 “Sluiceway” group near Glinoe village, Slobodzeya district, on left bank Lower Dniester. grave dates back to third quarter 4th century BC contained a small child. western part pit was intended sacrificial food knife, eastern body goods, where “bed” made mixture natural clay humus. Tw...

the next observation is, that ... there are far more burials than christenings. this is plain.... From this single observation it will follow that london should have decreased in its people, the contrary whereof we see by its daily increase.... it is therefore certain that london is supplied with people from out of the country, whereby not only to repair the over-plus difference of burials abov...

the determination of the ultimate pit limit (upl) is the first step in the open pit mine planning process. in this stage that parts of the mineral deposit that are economic to mine are determined. there are several mathematical, heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms to determine upl. the optimization criterion in these algorithms is maximization of the total profit whilst satisfying the...