History and archaeology topic list of research papers
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Endo- and ectoparasites of large whales (Cetartiodactyla: Balaenopteridae, Physeteridae): Overcoming difficulties in obtaining appropriate samples by non- and minimally-invasive methods
Abstract Baleen and sperm whales, belonging to the Order Cetartiodactyla, are the largest and heaviest existent mammals in the world, collectively known as large whales. Large whales have been subjected to a variety of conservation means, which...
2015 / Carlos Hermosilla, Liliana M.R. Silva, Rui Prieto, Sonja Kleinertz, Anja Taubert, et al. -
Reassessing the evidence for tree-growth and inferred temperature change during the Common Era in Yamalia, northwest Siberia
Abstract The development of research into the history of tree growth and inferred summer temperature changes in Yamalia spanning the last 2000 years is reviewed. One focus is the evolving production of tree-ring width (TRW) and tree-ring...
2013 / Keith R. Briffa, Thomas M. Melvin, Timothy J. Osborn, Rashit M. Hantemirov, Alexander V. Kirdyanov, et al. -
Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa: preliminary report on the Howiesons Poort layers
Abstract Surveys for archaeological sites in the De Hoop Nature Reserve, southern Cape, South Africa resulted in the discovery of a cave complex comprising two locations, Klipdrift Cave and Klipdrift Shelter. Excavations commenced in 2010 with Later ...
2014 / Christopher S. Henshilwood, Karen L. van Niekerk, Sarah Wurz, Anne Delagnes, Simon J. Armitage, et al. -
Opportunities and challenges of integrating ecological restoration into assessment and management of contaminated ecosystems2015 / Ruth N Hull, Samuel N Luoma, Bruce A Bayne, John Iliff, Daniel J Larkin, et al.
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Remote detection of past habitability at Mars-analogue hydrothermal alteration terrains using an ExoMars Panoramic Camera emulator
Abstract A major scientific goal of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars 2018 rover is to identify evidence of life within the martian rock record. Key to this objective is the remote detection of geological substrates that are indicative of past...
2015 / J.K. Harris, C.R. Cousins, M. Gunn, P.M. Grindrod, D. Barnes, et al. -
Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community
Abstract Vested interests and political agents have long opposed political or regulatory action in response to climate change by appealing to scientific uncertainty. Here we examine the effect of such contrarian talking points on the scientific...
2015 / Stephan Lewandowsky, Naomi Oreskes, James S. Risbey, Ben R. Newell, Michael Smithson -
Lessons learned from an ecosystem-based management approach to restoration of a California estuary
Abstract Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is the dominant paradigm, at least in theory, for coastal resource management. However, there are still relatively few case studies illustrating thorough application of principles of EBM by stakeholders and...
2015 / Kerstin Wasson, Becky Suarez, Antonia Akhavan, Erin McCarthy, Judith Kildow, et al. -
Reconstructing the impact of human activities in a NW Iberian Roman mining landscape for the last 2500 years
Abstract Little is known about the impact of human activities during Roman times on NW Iberian mining landscapes beyond the geomorphological transformations brought about by the use of hydraulic power for gold extraction. We present the...
2014 / Lourdes López-Merino, Antonio Martínez Cortizas, Guillermo S. Reher, José A. López-Sáez, Tim M. Mighall, et al. -
A fossil winonaite-like meteorite in Ordovician limestone: A piece of the impactor that broke up the L-chondrite parent body?
Abstract About a quarter of all meteorites falling on Earth today originate from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body ∼ 470 Ma ...
2014 / Birger Schmitz, Gary R. Huss, Matthias M.M. Meier, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Ross P. Church, et al. -
Smallholder Specialization Strategies along the Forest Transition Curve in Southwestern Amazonia
Summary Rural specialization strategies can be examined within the forest transition framework. We compared smallholder livelihood strategies between neighboring southwestern Amazonian sites at different stages along the forest transition curve....
2014 / Amy E. Duchelle, Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Sven Wunder, Jan Börner, Karen A. Kainer -
Penultimate predecessors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Sumatra: Stratigraphic, archeological, and historical evidence2014 / Kerry Sieh, Patrick Daly, E. Edwards McKinnon, Jessica E. Pilarczyk, Hong-Wei Chiang, et al.
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5,000 years old Egyptian iron beads made from hammered meteoritic iron
Abstract The earliest known iron artefacts are nine small beads securely dated to circa 3200 BC, from two burials in Gerzeh, northern Egypt. We show that these beads were made from meteoritic iron, and shaped by careful hammering the metal into thin ...
2013 / Thilo Rehren, Tamás Belgya, Albert Jambon, György Káli, Zsolt Kasztovszky, et al. -
Harnessing the biodiversity value of Central and Eastern European farmland2014 / Laura M. E. Sutcliffe, Péter Batáry, Urs Kormann, András Báldi, Lynn V. Dicks, et al.
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Assessment of the effectiveness of the post-Fukushima food monitoring campaign in the first year after the nuclear accident: A hypothesis
Abstract The purpose of this study was to assess whether or not the food monitoring campaign after the Fukushima nuclear accident has been successful in reducing the number of above-limit-food from reaching the consumers. The hypothesis of this...
2015 / Georg Steinhauser -
Neurotoxins during the Renaissance. Bioarcheology of Ferrante II of Aragon (1469–1496) and Isabella of Aragon (1470–1524)
Abstract We show that statistical modeling of analytical results is useful in providing insights into metabolism and disease in bioarcheology. Our results also imply that during the Renaissance in Europe widespread pollution of the biosphere with...
2016 / Clifford Qualls, Raffaella Bianucci, Racquel Legeros, Timothy Bromage, Antonio Lanzirotti, et al. -
Can REDD+ social safeguards reach the ‘right’ people? Lessons from Madagascar
Abstract There is extensive debate about the potential impact of the climate mechanism REDD+ on the welfare of forest-dwelling people. To provide emission reductions, REDD+ must slow the rate of deforestation and forest degradation: such a change...
2016 / Mahesh Poudyal, Bruno S. Ramamonjisoa, Neal Hockley, O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, James M. Gibbons, et al. -
Early atmospheric metal pollution provides evidence for Chalcolithic/Bronze Age mining and metallurgy in Southwestern Europe
Abstract Although archaeological research suggests that mining/metallurgy already started in the Chalcolithic (3rd millennium BC), the earliest atmospheric metal pollution in SW Europe has thus far been dated to ~3500–3200cal.yr. BP in...
2015 / Antonio Martínez Cortizas, Lourdes López-Merino, Richard Bindler, Tim Mighall, Malin E. Kylander -
Dynamics of the urban lightscape
Abstract The manifest importance of cities and the advent of novel data about them are stimulating interest in both basic and applied “urban science” (Bettencourt et al., 2007 [4]; Bettencourt, 2013 [3]). A central task in this emerging field is to...
2015 / Gregory Dobler, Masoud Ghandehari, Steven E. Koonin, Rouzbeh Nazari, Aristides Patrinos, et al. -
A search for H-chondritic chromite grains in sediments that formed immediately after the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body 470Ma ago
Abstract A large abundance of L-chondritic material, mainly in the form of fossil meteorites and chromite grains from micrometeorites, has been found in mid-Ordovician 470Ma old sediments globally. The material has been determined to be ejecta from...
2016 / Philipp R. Heck, Birger Schmitz, Surya S. Rout, Travis Tenner, Krysten Villalon, et al. -
The socio-environmental history of the Peloponnese during the Holocene: Towards an integrated understanding of the past
Abstract Published archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, and palaeoclimatic data from the Peloponnese in Greece are compiled, discussed and evaluated in order to analyse the interactions between humans and the environment over the last 9000 years....
2016 / Erika Weiberg, Ingmar Unkel, Katerina Kouli, Karin Holmgren, Pavlos Avramidis, et al.