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The earthquake of 1926 in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 This study explores contemporary newspaper narratives on the devastation caused by the earthquake of 1926 in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra. These narratives become crucial amid the difficulty of finding historical statistical data for disaster studies ...
Narny Yenny +3 more
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Central Asia: the bends of history and geography? [PDF]
Janus.net, 2014 This article aims to highlight the major historical and geopolitical characteristics of Central Asia, a region that led authors like Brzezinski to state that "whoever controls that space, will rule the planet", linking, on the other hand, the durability ...
Paulo Duarte
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Fire, 2021 Indigenous land use and climate have shaped fire regimes in southeast Australia during the Holocene, although their relative influence remains unclear. The archaeologically attested mid-Holocene decline in land-use intensity on the Furneaux Group islands
Matthew A. Adeleye +4 more
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Quaternary Science Advances, 2023 The analysis of subsistence practices in the Lesser Sunda Islands (from Bali in the west to Wetar and Timor to the east) provides data to interpret anatomically modern humans’ subsistence adaptation in insular environments.
Sofia C. Samper Carro +3 more
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Evidence at source for the mid-fifteenth century eruption of Kuwae, Vanuatu
Journal of Applied Volcanology, 2023 The mid-fifteenth century eruption of the Kuwae volcano (Vanuatu), known locally as the Tombuk eruption, is widely but not universally considered responsible for one of the three largest atmospheric sulphate events of the past millennium.
Chris Ballard +3 more
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An insect derived peat? The curious case of sediments at Bogong moth aestivation sites [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2022 The Bogong moth Agrotis infusa (Boisduval) is a migratory noctuid moth from south-eastern Australia which annually migrates thousands of kilometres for a period of aestivation in boulder-piles, caves and crevices on the highest mountain peaks of the ...
Benedict Keaney, Alan Wade
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“The Way We Build”: Craft, Innovation, and Sustainability in Japanese House-Carpentry
HoST, 2021 This article expands and complicates the literature on “craft” by examining the seeming anomaly of a craft community dominating a significant production sector within an advanced industrial economy, and despite the existence of cheaper high-tech and ...
Clancey Gregory
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Nature Communications, 2020 The resource-poor, isolated islands of Wallacea have been considered a major adaptive obstacle for hominins expanding into Australasia. Archaeological evidence has hinted that coastal adaptations in Homo sapiens enabled rapid island dispersal and ...
Patrick Roberts +13 more
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The Transcultural Travels of Trends. An Introductory Essay
The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2011 Lifestyle and consumer trends are part of people’s everyday lives everywhere. Trends in media and politics, though perhaps less frequently acknowledged as trends, shape the way societies are perceived and the way humans interact.
Jennifer Elisabeth Altehenger +2 more
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Ku Waru Clause Chaining and the Acquisition of Complex Syntax
Frontiers in Communication, 2020 How do children learn to understand and use complex syntactic constructions? In English, Diessel (2004) shows that they do so in two different ways.
Alan Rumsey +2 more
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