Individual monuments were replaced by tall slabs of marble called stelae inscribed with lists of names of the fallen.
Understanding the environmental context of monuments may provide detailed insights into relationships between the physical environment and the activities undertaken at individual monuments.
In this way detailed information about changes that occurred in the landscape and to individual monuments for almost the last 50 years was obtained.
The new conservation strategy of Pompeii will be focused less on restoring individual monuments than on comprehensive maintenance, including improved water collection and disposal.
An analysis of labor involved in earthwork construction demonstrates that in the Hopewell case, a very widely dispersed population, not exclusively affiliated with individual monuments, gathered repeatedly to build a related set of ceremonial centers.
In the quarter-century after World War II, the country established collective structures, not individual monuments, that channeled the aspirations of ordinary people: state universities, progressive taxation, interstate highways, collective bargaining, health insurance for the elderly, credible news organizations.
This course is an introduction to the great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire, with an emphasis on urban planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting.
The negative impact of today's development pressures poses a threat not only to individual monuments but to the future of public space and urban life in the valley at large.
Heritage is seen as a major component of quality of life, but the two main methods of identifying and protecting built heritage – the listing of individual monuments and buildings and designation of conservation areas – are unable to deal with less tangible features of townscape, such as street patterns.
The layout of the site is shown by the map in Fig. 1b, which marks the key religious complexes of the site along with individual monuments and buildings discussed in the text.
