Towards a fuller, more nuanced narrative of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain 2500-1500 BC [PDF]
This contribution considers some of the many recent advances in our understanding of Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Britain and uses these to highlight the weak points in our current state of knowledge.
Sheridan, J A
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Stuck in time – a new Chaenothecopsis species with proliferating ascomata from Cunninghamia resin and its fossil ancestors in European amber [PDF]
Resin protects wounded trees from microbial infection, but also provides a suitable substrate for the growth of highly specialized fungi. Chaenothecopsis proliferatus is described growing on resin of Cunninghamia lanceolata from Hunan Province, China ...
Alexander R. Schmidt +5 more
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Forestry in Poland with special attention to the region of the Pomeranian Young Moraine [PDF]
In the year 2004 the ASFV celebrated its 50th anniversary holding a conference in Sulczyno, Kartuzy. This event offered the possibility to give an actual overview of forest resources and forest functions in Poland.
Szydlarski, Marcin
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The article explores the changes in the gathering, processing and use of amber on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea at the end of the Viking Age and in the 12th to 16th century. In the pagan sacral space, works in amber reflected mythological elements,
Sigita Bagužaitė-Talačkienė
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A replacement name for the Baltic amber ripidiine genus Olemehlia (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae) [PDF]
A replacement name is established to remove homonymy between a genus of ripidiine beetles (Ripiphoridae) in mid-Eocene Baltic amber and a group of extant longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) from Southeast Asia.
Batelka, Jan
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Current Classification of the Families of Coleoptera [PDF]
(excerpt) Several works on the order Coleoptera have appeared in recent years, some of them creating new superfamilies, others modifying the constitution of these or creating new families, finally others are genera1 revisions of the order.
de Viedma, M G, Nelson, M L
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A new chironomid (Insecta : Diptera) from Wealden amber (Lower Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight (UK) [PDF]
The first insect from the Wealden amber of the Isle of Wight (early Barremian) is formally described. Dungeyella gavini n. gen., n. sp. (Diptera: Chironomidae) is a tiny buchonomyiine/podonomian with specialised wing venation and probably lived in an ...
Azar, Dany +2 more
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This study re-examines the personal adornment assemblage from the Bela Vista tholos (Sintra, Portugal), highlighting the rediscovery of a long-lost amber bead and clarifying the chronology and provenance of associated artifacts.
José Ángel Garrido-Cordero +7 more
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A new species of the beetle genus Brachypsectra from the Dominican Republic : with fossil connections (Coleoptera: Brachypsectridae) [PDF]
With the description of Brachypsectra uiuafosile n. sp., from the Cabo Rojo desert area of Hispaniola, the beetle family Brachypsectridae now contains 4 described species.
Woodruff, Robert E.
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Capalictus, a new subgenus of Lasioglossum Curtis, 1833 from South Africa, with description of three new species (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halictidae) [PDF]
Capalictus, a new subgenus of Lasioglossum Curtis, 1833 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halictidae), endemic to the South African Cape Province, is described. The type species is Halictus mosselinus Cockerell, 1945. Evylaeus (Sellalictus) fynbosensis (Pauly et al.
Gibbs, Jason +2 more
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