Blue Nitrogen: Global Rates and Economic Importance
Abstract Nitrogen (N) pollution drives widespread coastal ecosystem collapse. In this paper, we argue that mangrove forests represent an undervalued natural mitigation solution for N pollution. By performing a comprehensive global meta‐analysis, we reveal that mangroves remove 870 Gg N annually, which represents an economic value reaching $8.7 billion ...
Ziyan Wang, Benoit Thibodeau
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Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
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Gender and age identities in rituals of comensality : the argaric societies [PDF]
Analysis of meat offerings included in the grave goods of Argaric burials has shown the importance of commensality practices for these societies not only as a part of the funerary ritual but also as a way to manifest social inequalities.
Alarcón García, Eva +2 more
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May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit
In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
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Learning from the Dead: How Burial Practices in Roman Britain Reflect Changes in Belief and Society
This paper begins by examining the burial traditions of the Iron age Britons and Classical Romans to see how these practices reflect their societal values and belief systems. The funerary methods of both the Britons and Romans are then analyzed following
Engel, Samuel F.
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Sepulcros campaniformes (no) para muertos: El Alto I y III, Las Cuevas/El Morrón y La Perica (Soria, España) [PDF]
En este trabajo se trata el reciente descubrimiento de un fenómeno peculiar de gran interés en el Calcolítico campaniforme del Valle de Ambrona (Soria, España), que es la existencia de numerosos túmulos que parecen tumbas pero que no lo son.
García Martínez de Lagrán, Íñigo +3 more
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Primary State Formation Processes on Bronze Age Crete: A Social Approach to Change in Early Complex Societies [PDF]
The formation of a state on Crete at the beginning of the second millennium bc has usually been considered under the secondary state paradigm. Most explanations rely on the role of conspicuous consumption and emulation mechanisms at a time when Cretan ...
Legarra Herrero, B
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Curated cauldrons: Preserved proteins from early copper-alloy vessels illuminate feasting practices in the Caucasian steppe. [PDF]
Wilkin S +6 more
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We have available today the immediate revelation and leadership of the Holy Spirit. It is this leadership rather than conscience that we as Friends are obligated to follow.
Hinshaw, Kelsey E.
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