History and archaeology topic list of research papers
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Identity-focused Narrative and Feminine Shadows in Nora Iuga's Diary – Berlinul meu e un monolog / My Berlin is a Monologue
Abstract The memoir writing conveys a special type of narrative in which the ego launches itself into an identity pilgrimage, the text turning into a representation mirror re-portraying both World and Self. In Nora Iuga's diary - ...
2014 / Nicoleta Ifrim -
Elements of Science in Cypriot Folk Stories
Abstract Children need literature. Literary and folk creations that enrich and beautify their limited lives and life experiences that are shaped only by their families and close surroundings, that teaches them concepts and values are very good and...
2014 / Hatice Kayhan -
World-Systems Analysis and Archaeology: Continuing the Dialogue2010 / Thomas D. Hall, P. Nick Kardulias, Christopher Chase-Dunn
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Gloria Naylor's Mama Day: Magical Realism as the Site of Black Female Agency and Empowerment
Abstract Magical realism has been commonly identified as a subversive and discursive narrative technique widely used by ethnic-identified and postcolonial authors around the world. Although the origins of magical realist literature are largely...
2014 / Nesrin Yavaş -
Architectural Features of the Burial Sites for Elite of Begazy – Dandybai Culture of Central Eurasia (e.g Begazy Necropolis)
Abstract One of the cultural and historical monuments nominated by the Republic of Kazakhstan to the World Heritage List of UNESCO is the megalithic structures of Begazy-Danbybai culture. Architectural structures intended for the funeral ceremonies...
2014 / A.Z. Beisenov, Zh.K. Taimagambetov, A.E. Kassenalin -
Social Pathways for Ebola Virus Disease in Rural Sierra Leone, and Some Implications for Containment2015 / Paul Richards, Joseph Amara, Mariane C. Ferme, Prince Kamara, Esther Mokuwa, et al.
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Managing population immunity to reduce or eliminate the risks of circulation following the importation of polioviruses
Abstract Poliovirus importations into polio-free countries represent a major concern during the final phases of global eradication of wild polioviruses (WPVs). We extend dynamic transmission models to demonstrate the dynamics of population immunity...
2015 / Kimberly M. Thompson, Dominika A. Kalkowska, Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens -
The ‘Great Firm’ Theory of the Decline of the Mughal Empire2009 / Karen Leonard
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A tale of two villages: An investigation of conservation-driven land tenure reform in a Cambodian Protection Forest
Abstract In this paper, we present an analysis of the change in household land use following a conservation-driven process of indigenous land titling reform in a Cambodian protected area. In each of the two study villages, we investigated how...
2014 / Henry Travers, Kyle Winney, Tom Clements, Tom Evans, E.J. Milner-Gulland -
The starfish diagram: Visualising data within the context of survey samples
Abstract As astronomy becomes increasingly invested in large surveys the ample representation of an individual target becomes a significant challenge. Tabulations of basic properties can convey the message in an absolute sense but not within the...
2015 / I.S. Konstantopoulos -
Wanderwörter in languages of the Americas and Australia
Abstract Wanderwörter are a problematic set of words in historical linguistics. They usually make up a small proportion of the total vocabulary of individual languages, and only a minority of loanwords. They are, however, found...
2014 / Hannah Haynie, Claire Bowern, Patience Epps, Jane Hill, Patrick McConvell -
The Discolouration of Human Teeth from Archaeological Contexts: Elemental Analysis of a Black Tooth from a Roman Cranium Recovered from the River Witham, Lincoln, UK2014 / Emma L. Brown, Ronald A. Dixon, Jason W. Birkett
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Chemical characterisation of museum-curated ethnographic resins from Australia and New Guinea used as adhesives, medicines and narcotics2013 / Fiona Bradshaw
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The scientific–community interface over the fifteen-year eruptive episode of Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador2015 / Patricia A Mothes, Hugo A Yepes, Minard L Hall, Patricio A Ramón, Alexander L Steele, et al.
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Metallic encounters in Cuba: The technology, exchange and meaning of metals before and after Columbus
Abstract Metals held important symbolic and political values for the indigenous communities of the Caribbean islands. However, metal objects are not abundant in indigenous archaeological sites, and their study has hitherto been very limited. This...
2012 / Marcos Martinón-Torres, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Juanita Sáenz Samper, María Filomena Guerra -
A Fifteen Year Record of Global Natural Gas Flaring Derived from Satellite Data2009 / Christopher D. Elvidge, Daniel Ziskin, Kimberly E. Baugh, Benjamin T. Tuttle, Tilottama Ghosh, et al.
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Shifting cultivators in South Asia: Expansion, marginalisation and specialisation over the long term
Abstract This paper will consider alternative perspectives on the long-term history of shifting cultivation in India and Sri Lanka. Ethnographic and historical accounts of shifting cultivation, often by groups marginal to centres of urbanism and...
2011 / Eleanor Kingwell-Banham, Dorian Q. Fuller -
A charcoal-rich horizon at Ø69, Greenland: evidence for vegetation burning during the Norse landnám?
Abstract It is often assumed that the colonisation of Greenland by Norse settlers in c. A.D. 985 had a sudden and dramatic effect on the environment, involving substantial vegetation clearance and environmental degradation. Consequently, it has been ...
2013 / Rosie R. Bishop, Mike J. Church, Andrew J. Dugmore, Christian Koch Madsen, Niels A. Møller -
An unusual cluster of HIV-1 B/F recombinants in an Asian population
Summary We report the detection of multiple HIV strains in injection drug users (IDU) in Macao, which appear to be derived from subtypes F, G, and CRF12_BF. A total of 14 HIV-infected IDU samples were collected and examined. Direct sequencing was...
2010 / Ross K.K. Leung, Fion N.Y. Fong, Thomas C.C. Au, I. Fan Lau, Paul K.S. Chan, et al. -
The current status of anti-Müllerian hormone measurement in assisted conception2013 / Oybek Rustamov, Allen P. Yates, Philip W. Pemberton, Luciano G. Nardo