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Central Asia: the bends of history and geography? [PDF]

open access: yesJanus.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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History of neuropsychology in Asia: Readdressing a Clinical Anecdote using Telomerase and Neuroimaging

open access: yes, 2016
Clinical neuropsychology in Asia has emerged from the interactions of multiple processes, including the development of psychology and its subdisciplines worldwide, the entering of psychology into Asia and ongoing intellectual influences from outside of ...
Wang, K, Collinson, SL, Lee, TMC
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The earthquake of 1926 in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra [PDF]

open access: yesE3S 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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Indigenous Fire-Managed Landscapes in Southeast Australia during the Holocene—New Insights from the Furneaux Group Islands, Bass Strait

open access: yesFire, 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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Big questions for small animals. Taphonomic analysis of small vertebrates in Matja Kuru 2 (Timor-Leste) during the late pleistocene

open access: yesQuaternary 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

open access: yesJournal 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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Kinship and History in South Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Kinship and History in South Asia presents four papers given at a small conference of kinship studies scholars, “Kinship and History in South Asia,” at the University of Toronto in 1973.

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An insect derived peat? The curious case of sediments at Bogong moth aestivation sites [PDF]

open access: yesMires 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

open access: yesHoST, 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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