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Abstract Hybodontiformes was a diverse, successful, and important group of shark‐like chondrichthyans known from a variety of ecosystems. Some representatives of the order had a wide palaeogeographic distribution, as is the case with Priohybodus arambourgi. With a multicuspidate crown, P. arambourgi was the first hybodontiform to develop fully serrated
Estevan Eltink+5 more
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Phrenology and the Rwandan Genocide
Belgian colonizers used phrenology to create an irreducible division between the two major groups living for centuries in Rwanda-Urundi. This formed the basis for the implementation of systematic efforts to subdue the large Hutu population.
Charles André
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Culturally Imbued Trees: Physical and Metaphysical Connections
ABSTRACT Australian Aboriginal song‐lines and Dreaming tracks follow the movement and interactions of ancestral beings and are marked by physical features associated with those ancestral beings at culturally significant places, often termed ‘sacred sites’.
Ken Mulvaney, David Cooper
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History of mycobiota research of Latvia: Chronology till the middle of the 20th century [PDF]
Edgars Vimba
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Snake and Moon ‘Right Way Marriage’ Stories on Stone and Bark
ABSTRACT In northwest Australia, boab trees hold significant cultural values for First Nations people. Their leaves, bark, roots and nuts are important as traditional resources for food, medicine, fibre, water and shade and serve as reference points in the landscape. Some of the tree trunks are inscribed with images and symbols which tell of events and
Jane Balme+7 more
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Pinning Down a Force in 20th-Century History
We have a choice: to remember William S. Paley as the television tycoon lionized by the media throughout his life, or to remember him as portrayed in Sally Bedell Smith's new biography, "In All His Glory." The two portraits are not the same, and it remains to be seen which has the greater power - the biographer or the press.
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The history of ‘Female Sexual Dysfunction’ as a mental disorder in the 20th century [PDF]
Katherine Angel
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ABSTRACT This paper outlines preliminary results from our multimethod research about Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) and associated bark and wooden material culture in Yagara Country in southeast Queensland. Methods employed include historical source and modern database analysis, archaeological field surveys, semi‐structured interviews with Yagara ...
Kate Greenwood+3 more
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St Paul in the early 20th century history of religions. “The mystic of Tarsus” and the pagan mystery cults after the correspondence of Franz Cumont and Alfred Loisy [PDF]
Annelies Lannoy
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ABSTRACT This research examines rock art and dendroglyphs in the Wet Tropics of northeast Australia to investigate their relationship to linguistic social identity. The region was selected for its complex socio‐cultural landscape, marked by a diversity of languages in a distinct, relatively small area.
Alice Buhrich
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