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The Chanka: Archaeological Research in Andahuaylas (Apurimac), Peru [PDF]
, 2010 In AD 1438 a battle took place outside the city of Cuzco that changed the course of South American history. The Chanka, a powerful ethnic group from the Andahuaylas region, had begun an aggressive program of expansion.
Aráoz Silva, Miriam +2 more
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Peter Watson: The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New [PDF]
, 2014 Peter Watson is an intellectual historian, who writes big, ambitious books. His previous work, The German Genius (2010) did an admirable job surveying the extraordinary flo- rescence of German intellectual thought from the seventeenth to the twentieth ...
Agar, J
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Marine Flora and Fauna of the Northeastern United States Echinodermata: Crinoidea [PDF]
, 1990 The crinoid fauna of the continental margin (0-1500 m) of northeastern North America (Georgia to Canada) includes 14 species in 13 genera and 5 families. We introduce the external morphology and natural history of crinoids and include a glossary of terms,
Dearborn, John H., Messing, Charles G.
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A Invenção do Rio Amazonas na Cartografia (1540-1560)
Terra Brasilis, 2020 This article seeks to explore the process of inventing the Amazon River on world and regional maps after the Castilian expedition of Francisco de Orellana (1541-1542), who sailed almost the entire river course.
Lucas Montalvão Rabelo
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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History [PDF]
, 2015 Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, volume 7 (CMR 7) is a history of all the known works on relations from Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America in the period 1500-1600.
Manso, Maria de Deus
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The changing course of the Amazon River in the Neogene: center stage for Neotropical diversification
Neotropical Ichthyology, 2018 We review geological evidence on the origin of the modern transcontinental Amazon River, and the paleogeographic history of riverine connections among the principal sedimentary basins of northern South America through the Neogene.
James S. Albert, Pedro Val, Carina Hoorn
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Scientific ReportsThe Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) is a globally invasive species and an economically significant pest of fruit crops. Understanding the evolutionary history and local climatic adaptation of this species is crucial for developing effective ...
Pablo Deschepper +10 more
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First Record of Kurzia media (Birge 1879) (Cladocera: Chydoridae) in Brazil with notes on the holotype [PDF]
Acta AmazonicaThe genus Kurzia, initially described in 1894 by Dybowski and Grochowski, has a worldwide distribution and includes eight species. In Brazil, Kurzia polyspina is so far the only species considered valid. Here we report the first record of Kurzia media in
Daniel da Silva ANDRADE +3 more
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A Review of the fossil record of turtles of the clade Pan-Kinosternoidea [PDF]
, 2016 Turtles of the total clade Pan-Kinosternoidea have a relatively poor fossil record that extends back to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian). The clade is found only in North America during its early history, but dispersed to Central America no later than the
Bourque, Jason R., Joyce, Walter G.
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Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern HistoriographyReview of Cátia A.P. Antunes, ed., Pursuing Empire: Brazilians, the Dutch and the Portuguese in Brazil and the South Atlantic, c.1620-1660, Leiden: Brill, 2022, reviewed by Stuart B ...
Stuart B. Schwartz
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