All four books bear witness to the fact that the comparative approach constitutes one of the richest quarries for the new historiography of religion.
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Both the text and the extensive bibliography of primary sources will doubtless be quarried gratefully by other local and national historians.
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Intermittently along the causeway, sections of sur face materials had collapsed, exposing subterranean lime quarries known as sascaberas.
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Following the discovery of palynomorphs in fissure 2, further samples were routinely and regularly collected from all the fissures as they were quarried.
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As work progressed, more and more quarries were opened.
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Most gold diggers quarried gold ore with little knowledge of the condition of the soil they worked.
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Furthermore, some trades were traditionally linked, painter/plumber/glazier, or shared agricultural origins + brick®elds, forests or quarries.
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Except for the top quarried level that retained the original limestone surface, the vertical extents of the fissures are generally unknown due to earlier quarrying operations or unexcavated base levels.
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Perhaps only pre-forms were prepared at workshops in or near the quarries and, once transpor ted to their final destination within the site, the sculptures were then completed.
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Various quarries, which were active up to several decades ago, have significantly changed the original morphology of the area and now provide the outcrop of some proximal pyroclastic sequences.
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The usual cast of topics is there, population, economy (textiles to oil by way of granite quarries and ®shing), work, politics, local government, poverty, housing, leisure and religion.
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The plant and machinery were subsequently sold by public auction, and as the quarries are flooded to a great extent no restart is contemplated.
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At least two of these deaths occurred in disused pits or quarries.
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The figures comprise factory inspectors, agricultural inspectors, specialist inspectors and quarries inspectors.
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There is a very large number of disused quarries in the national parks, but no comprehensive records of their working life.
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Collocationswithquarry
quarry
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abandoned quarry
He sells the stamps and uses the proceeds to build his own hotel in anabandonedquarry.
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granite quarry
Is a granite quarry included in the definition?
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gravel quarry
A firm of waste disposal contractors leases thegravelquarryfrom the company.
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