Abstract The career of the German physicist Walther Gerlach (1889–1979) spanned two world wars and the changing political systems in Germany in the twentieth century. As a physicist involved in the rapid development of atomic physics and the management of scientific research in Germany during World War II as well as in post‐war West Germany, several ...
Johannes‐Geert Hagmann
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Exploring site formation and building local contexts through wiggle-match radiocarbon dating: re-dating of the Firth of Clyde Crannogs, Scotland [PDF]
There are at least four wooden intertidal platforms, also known as marine crannogs, in the Firth of Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland. The interpretation of these sites partly depends on their dating and, if coeval, they could point to the presence of
Cook, Gordon +3 more
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The fall of Merovingian Italy, 561–5
After the end of the Gothic War in the mid‐sixth century, northern Italy remained divided between the Merovingian Franks and the eastern Roman Empire. In the 560s the Frankish territories were finally taken by imperial armies, but the end of Merovingian Italy is variably dated between 561 and 565.
Sihong Lin
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Mesolithic projectile variability along the southern North Sea basin (NW Europe) : hunter-gatherer responses to repeated climate change at the beginning of the Holocene [PDF]
This paper investigates how former hunter-gatherers living along the southern North Sea coast in NW Europe adapted to long-term and short-term climatic and environmental changes at the beginning of the Holocene.
Crombé, Philippe
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Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia
ABSTRACT According to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia from c.1750 to 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in coastal Aboriginal languages suggest a long and complex history of foreign voyaging to northern Australia.
Chris Urwin +4 more
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ABSTRACT In the Massim Island region of southeastern Papua New Guinea secondary interment of skeletal remains was widely practiced historically, but its social context and regional expression in the deeper past remains uncertain. In this paper the chronology of secondary burial on Panaeati Island is established indirectly by reconstructing the cultural
Zali Boyd, Ben Shaw
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Breach of faith? Italian-Soviet Cold War trading and Eni’s international oil scandal [PDF]
The article was submitted on 10.07.2015.By the late-1950s, Soviet oil exports to Western Europe caused widespread concern in a number of Western countries as these feared that Moscow could use oil to weaken their economic interests.
Cantoni, R., Кантони, Р.
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CICERONE, Aratea. Parte I: Proemio e Catalogo delle costellazioni, Introdu-zione, testo e commento, a cura di Daniele PELLACANI, Patron, Bologna, 2015, 224 pp., ISBN 9788855533249, 24 €.
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Archaeological and archaeometric study of the glass finds from the ancient harbour of Classe (Ravenna- Italy): new evidence [PDF]
Introduction: The present study focuses on Late-Roman/Early Medieval glass found in the productive area within the ancient harbour of Classe near Ravenna, one of the most important trade centres between the 5th and 8th centuries AD of the Northern ...
Enrico, Cirelli +5 more
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Projections for future radiocarbon content in dissolved inorganic carbon in hardwater lakes: a retrospective approach [PDF]
Inland water bodies contain significant amounts of carbon in the form of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) derived from a mixture of modern atmospheric and pre-aged sources, which needs to be considered in radiocarbon-based dating and natural isotope ...
Blattmann, Thomas M. +3 more
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