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Trade and exchange [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
If the history of Mediterranean trade during the period c800-1200 is one of decline and reluctant recovery that of Northern Europe is decidedly one of growth. One reason for this is the different points of departure.
Arthur, P., Sindbæk, Søren
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A new genus and species of terrestrial isopod (Isopoda: Oniscidea) found in Baltic amber

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Taxonomy
The knowledge of fossil terrestrial isopods is of rudimentary nature and the diversity of terrestrial isopods in the geological past is poorly represented in the current taxonomy of the suborder.
Benedikt Kästle, Florian Ludwig
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Analysis and Provenience of Minoan and Mycenaean Amber, II. Tiryns

open access: yesGreek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2003
Analysis of the gold-and-amber objects in the Tiryns Treasure (ca. 1100 B.C.) shows that the amber is Baltic in origin, approximating the route of the Hyperborean gifts.
Curt W. Beck   +2 more
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Whose Amber? Changing notions of Amber’s geographical origin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This essay explores the issue of cultural identity and cultural identification with respect to one material: amber. Prior to the discovery of the new world and for quite some time afterwards, the primary source of amber in fifteenth-, sixteenth- and ...
King, Rachel
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Amber deposits of Ukraine and prospects of their development

open access: yesМінеральні ресурси України, 2017
Geological conditions for formation and territorial distribution of amber deposits in Ukraine have been analyzed. Amber deposits for jewelry production are connected with the Baltic-Dnieper Subprovince within the Ukrainian part of which two amber-bearing
H. I. Rudko
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Achilidae from the Eocene Baltic amber

open access: yesBulletin of Insectology, 2008
A short review of the representatives of the planthopper family Achilidae (Hemiptera Fulgoroidea) preserved as inclusions in the Eocene Baltic amber is given. Fossil records of the family and its subunits are presented in brief. The evolutionary history of the group is briefly discussed.
openaire   +1 more source

A revision of the Neotropical predaceous midges of Brachypogon (Brachypogon) Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
This revision of the Neotropical predaceous midges of the genus Brachypogon (Brachypogon) Kieffer, recognizes 18 extant species, including the following 12 new species: Brachypogon (B.) apunctipennis, bifidus, bimaculatus, ecuadorensis, ethelae ...
Grogan, William L. Jr.   +1 more
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