History and archaeology topic list of research papers
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Lake ecosystem dynamics and links to climate change inferred from a stable isotope and organic palaeorecord from a mountain lake in southwestern China (ca. 22.6–10.5 cal ka BP)
Abstract A detailed understanding of long-term climatic and environmental change in southwestern China is hampered by a lack of long-term regional palaeorecords. Organic analysis (%TOC, %TN, C/N ratios and δ13C values) of a sediment sequence from...
2011 / Charlotte G. Cook, Melanie J. Leng, Richard T. Jones, Peter G. Langdon, Enlou Zhang -
A commentary on “The greenhouse-gas footprint of natural gas in shale formations” by R.W. Howarth, R. Santoro, and Anthony Ingraffea2012 / Lawrence M. Cathles, Larry Brown, Milton Taam, Andrew Hunter
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“Red East”: Soviet Central Asia in the 1920s2010 / Katya Vladimirov
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Reminiscing on my visits to the Needham Research Institute2013 / Dongwon Shin
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Crop growing and gathering in the northern German Neolithic: a review supplemented by new results2011 / Wiebke Kirleis, Stefanie Klooß, Helmut Kroll, Johannes Müller
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Wilhelm Röpke's political economy - By Samuel Gregg2011 / JEREMY LEAMAN
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Letter to the editor2012 / Colin Berry
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Divergent trajectories: Environment, heritage and tourism in Tanegashima, Mageshima and Yakushima
Abstract This article addresses aspects of contemporary heritage orientation of Tanegashima and Yakushima islands in southern Japan in the context of their historical association; the status of adjacent Mageshima island; and the divergent nature of...
2013 / Philip Hayward, Sueo Kuwahara -
The “China Seas” in world history: A general outline of the role of Chinese and East Asian maritime space from its origins to c. 1800
Abstract Through the East Asian waters its neighbouring countries have since early times on maintained networks of trade and exchange relations. Historically, these waters constituted not only a kind of border or natural barrier but from very early...
2013 / Angela Schottenhammer -
The dawn of modern dentistry in Japan: The transfer of knowledge and skills from foreign dentists to Japanese counterparts in the Yokohama Foreign Settlement
Summary Modern Western dentistry was introduced to Japan by foreign dentists who arrived in Yokohama, after the opening of the country. The arrival in Japan of foreign dentists triggered the introduction of modern dentistry into Japan. We searched...
2013 / Toshihide Ohno, Yuji Hasaka -
What we learned from the Dust Bowl: lessons in science, policy, and adaptation2013 / Robert A. McLeman, Juliette Dupre, Lea Berrang Ford, James Ford, Konrad Gajewski, et al.
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Could there Be a Synthesis between Western and Oriental Medicine, and with Sasang Constitutional Medicine in Particular?2009 / Denis Noble
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Peer review report 1 On “Long-term trends in climate and hydrology in an agricultural, headwater watershed of central Pennsylvania, USA”2016 / M. Todd Walter
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Dictionary of British Scientific Instruments2006 / A. R. H.
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Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region Edited by. Prasit Leepreecha , Don McCaskill , Kwanchewan Buadaeng . Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region. Chiang Mai, Thailand:. Mekong Press. 2008. ix + 379 pp. THB 795.00, US$ 35.00. ISBN: 978-974-8418-20-9.2010 / Mandy Sadan
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Numbers as Cultural Significant
Abstract In this article we will try to analyse how Turkic number symbolism was based. Since symbolic meaning of numbers have connotative meaning and they are absolutely different from its initial meaning, we tried to find out what were the main...
2015 / Kulsariyeva Aktolkyn Turlukanovna, Zhumashova Zhuldyz -
Firewood, food and human niche construction: the potential role of Mesolithic hunter–gatherers in actively structuring Scotland's woodlands
Abstract Over the past few decades the potential role of Mesolithic hunter–gatherers in actively constructing their own niches, through the management of wild plants, has frequently been discussed. It is probable that Mesolithic hunter–gatherers...
2014 / Rosie R. Bishop, Mike J. Church, Peter A. Rowley-Conwy -
Realizing the Right to Sanitation in Deprived Urban Communities: Meeting the Challenges of Collective Action, Coproduction, Affordability, and Housing Tenure
Summary There are serious institutional challenges associated with low-cost sanitation in deprived urban communities. These include a collective action challenge, a coproduction challenge, a challenge of affordability versus acceptability, and a...
2015 / Gordon McGranahan -
Evidence for Nutrient Biolifting in Hawaiian Climosequence Soils as Revealed by Alkaline Earth Metal Stable Isotope Systematics
Abstract Plants are known to scavenge nutrients such as phosphorus (P) from rock subtrates and concentrate those nutrients at the surface in order to satisfy long-term nutritional requirements. Using the stable isotope systematics of calcium (Ca),...
2015 / Thomas Bullen, Oliver Chadwick -
Reciprocity on Demand2015 / Michael Schnegg