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‘Sense of place’ and conservation: Toponym diversity helps to maintain vegetation naturalness
Abstract Place names are an important but vanishing part of cultural diversity, and their relevance for environmental sciences is increasingly acknowledged. Still little is known about whether the diversity of toponyms affects human–nature relationships and the decisions of humans on how to use certain parts of the landscape.
Orsolya Valkó +3 more
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Bayesian methods for age categorization can augment skeletal data with additional knowledge. For small samples, as for Glinoe Scythians, the estimation errors remain high. Different prior assumptions help assess the impact of reference populations. Abstract Objectives Studies of the demography of past populations involving deterministic life tables can
Sylwia Łukasik +3 more
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The continuity of a number of the traditions which are going back to a funeral ceremony of Middle Sarmatiаn culture is observed in the burial grounds of Caspian Dagestan dating back to the second half of the 2nd - first half of the 5th centuries.
Malashev Vladimir Yuryevich
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Assessment of flash flood susceptibility potential in Moldavian Plain (Romania)
Abstract Concentration of time (Tc) is a frequently used parameter in the evaluation of the hydrological response of different sizes hydrographic basin in case of rainfall events. The present study is innovative, because it has created an index that identifies the small‐sized hydrographic basins that are exposed to the risk of flooding.
Marina Iosub +3 more
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Home thoughts of abroad: Ohthere’s Voyage in its Anglo‐Saxon context
The Old English text known as Ohthere’s Voyage is regarded as a key source for Norwegian history. Consequently, the context of its composition and inclusion in the Old English Orosius has often been overlooked. This article demonstrates that the text cannot be separated from the processes that shaped it during its early transmission.
Ben Allport
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Burials of the Early Iron Age of the Kurgans Cemetery “Bogomolnye Peski-I”
The article is dedicated to the publication of the materials of burials from the Early Iron Age, discovered during excavations of a crumbling kurgan which is a part of the cemetery “Bogomolnye Peski-I” close to the village of Nikolskoye, Enotaevsky ...
Alexey A. Timofeev +4 more
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Fibulae from Sarmatian Complexes of the Esaulovsky Aksai
Introduction. Metal clasps for clothes, being a detail of a suit and being exposed to fashion trends, quite often changed, which makes it possible to use them as a dating material. Methods. The historical, cultural and typological methods are used in the
Elena A. Korobkova
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Late Sarmatian Swords and Daggers from the Burials of the Berezovsky Kurgan Burial Ground
Introduction. One of the main types of Sarmatian weapons is bladed weapons, represented by daggers and swords. The relatively small number of Late Sarmatian burials in the forest-steppe Podonye determines the importance of publishing new ...
Valerij Berezutskij
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Sarmatian Burials of the Kovalevka Burial Mound: Strangers Among Friends?
Introduction. The Nomads of early Sarmatian time is a complex conglomerate of constantly growing groups of new population in the Volga-Don interfluve area. Determining their location is becoming a relevant problem in the current research.
Valeriy M. Klepikov
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Diagonal Burials as a Marker of Succession of Sarmatian Cultures in the First Centuries AD
The paper is devoted to studying diagonal funerary complexes as markers of Sarmatian cultures succession in the first centuries AD. The research is based on the analysis of the Middle Sarmatian and Late Sarmatian diagonal burial rite and on the ...
Mariya A. Balabanova +1 more
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