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Terraced fields increased soil organic carbon content in croplands of the loess plateau. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Wang Q, Xu Y, Zhu G, Jiao Y, Qiu D, Lu S, Yang J, Chen L, Meng G, Li R, Zhao L, Huang E, Wang Y.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between the Indian Ocean and the Gulf: Ceramics From Ḥattā Oasis in the Emirate of Dubai

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the ceramic finds from archaeological investigations conducted in 2024 at two settlements: ‘Islamic Village' and Suhaila 2, one of a number of mountain villages of the Late Islamic period within the Ḥattā Oasis: a high‐altitude exclave in the Emirate of Dubai. The sites are located on the northeastern slopes of Jabal Qallāt
Seth M. N. Priestman, Agnese Kukela, Mansour Boraik, Hassan Mohammed Zein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Restoring degraded soils: The transformative impact of Fanya Juu terraces on soil characteristics in the erosion-prone Magera watershed, Southern Ethiopia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Falta FF, Fakana ST, Kassie NK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

Super-Resolution-Assisted Farmland Boundary Extraction from Medium-Resolution Satellite Image: A Real-ESRGAN and YOLO Segmentation Framework. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Yu J, Yin H, Huang X, Liu J, Yang S, Zeng B, Zhang J, Wang X, Xiong B.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What Was ‘Middle Australia’? Social Categorisation and Political Positioning in the Late‐20th Century

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
wiley   +1 more source

Nutrient accumulation and fertilizer potential of terrace section soils in loess areas. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Lei N, Zhang J, Zhang J, Sun Z, Wang Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Monsters of finance

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
wiley   +1 more source

Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante, Armel Lekeufack, Nina Tamara Barbosa Ponce, Roger Amos Kañaa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source