The Cro-Magnon rock-shelter hosted the first discovered and certainly one of most important Gravettian burial sites in Europe. However, copious ornament collection found among human skeletons was not analysed with modern techniques. After proposing a synthesis complex curatorial history material, we submitted large proportion personal ornaments at site, five conservation institutions, to taxono...

The timing of infant weaning in the past is important for its implications birth-spacing and survival, hence population maintenance or growth under different socio-economic regimes. Prior to adoption agriculture, breastfeeding believed have been more prolonged amongst hunter-gatherers due, at least partly, lack suitable foods that are available agriculturalists. introduction pottery possibly al...

This special issue examines the multifaceted phenomenon of death in early modern Low Countries. When war, revolt, and disease ravaged Netherlands, experience came to be increasingly materialised vanitas art, funeral sermons, ars moriendi prints, mourning poetry, deathbed psalms, memento mori pendants, grave monuments, épitaphiers, commemoration masses. collection interdisciplinary essays brings...

Light-induced molecular piping of cyclic peptide nanotubes to form bent tubular structures is described. The process based on the [4+4] photocycloaddition anthracene moieties, whose structural changes derived from interdigitated flat disposition precursors corresponding cycloadduct induced geometrical modifications in packing that provokes their curvature. For this purpose, we designed a new cl...

Optically active, amphiphilic poly(meta-phenylene ethynylene)s (PPEa) bearing L- or D-alanine-derived oligo(ethylene glycol) side chains connected to the backbone via amide linkages were prepared by microwave-assisted polycondensation. PPEa's exhibited an intense Cotton effect in the π-conjugated main-chain chromophore regions in various polar and nonpolar organic solvents due to a predominantl...

Several series of prehistoric implements in animal hard tissues, either from ancient and recent excavations, were studied by the typological and technological points of views. Their morpho-typological description was in many cases associated to microscopic study of surface modifications, often allowing identification of traces related to manufacture. This technological information in some cases...

Poly(1,3,4-oxadiazole-ether) with reactive carboxylic acid pendants was synthesized from solution polymerization via nucleophilic displacement polycondensation among 2,5-bis(4-fluorophenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole (BFPOx) and 4,4'-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl) valeric acid (BHPA). Without altering the polymeric segments, benzimidazole modified poly(1,3,4-oxadiazole-ether)s were prepared by varying stoichiometr...