ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka +7 more
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В Азербайджане кавказкая агама (Paralaudakia caucasia) впервые отмечена как хозяин зоонозных цист Giardia duodenalis. В весенний и летний сезоны 2020 года были отловлены 27 кавказских агам (Paralaudakia caucasia).
Тюркан Фирудин кызы Гурбанова
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens
Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski +2 more
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(Mis)Recognition of Post-blackness through Crossings in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia
Post-blackness emerged as a reaction against the commonly old-fashioned and restrictive representation of blackness to enhance for a more fluid, flexible and fruitful representation of blackness. It is a shifting discourse for securing a multidimensional
Hajer Dhifallah
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Species respond to climate change through phenological and spatial shifts. Herbivorous mammals, in particular, are vulnerable due to their direct dependence on seasonal vegetation and the potential misalignment between their reproductive cycles and shifting food availability.
Farid Salmanpour +5 more
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Main concepts of sustainable development and mountainous regions (on the example of the Caucasus)
Main concepts of sustainable development are focused on: The economic problems (sustainable development relies on and considers the rational use of exhaustible natural resources, development of resource-saving technologies, focus on inexhaustible and ...
Nodar Elizbarashvili +2 more
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Limited Place of the Dead Body: Graves with Circassian Identity in Kayseri /Ölü Bedenin Sınırlanan Mekânı: Kayseri’deki Çerkes Kimlikli Mezarlar [PDF]
Tracing to the roots of a community identity can be possible only by uncovering the places of the living and the dead. Therefore, the manners of defining the identity of their own community emerge in its dependence within the place.
Zeynep Kantemur
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Structural Change and Economic Growth in Visegrad and South Caucasian Countries
This paper investigates the effect of the change in the economic structure on economic growth in Visegrad and South Caucasia. The Shift Share Analysis (SSA) method measures the direct effects of structural change on productivity growth.
Vusal Ahmadov
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Entanglements and disentanglements : a posthuman approach to mercury use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Antioquia, Colombia : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]
This research uses qualitative research techniques and posthuman theories to investigate the dynamic relationship between artisanal and small-scale gold miners and mercury in the context of Antioquia, Colombia.
Robertson, Thomas Jonathan
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Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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