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Patterns of Freshwater Fish Vulnerability in European Rivers
ABSTRACT European rivers are home to more than 600 native freshwater‐dependent fish species, with nearly half of them raising some level of conservation concern. Tackling this decline requires prioritising efforts towards the most vulnerable communities, at a spatial scale aligned with river restoration.
Daniel Mameri +7 more
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R. S. Gabyashev’s Role in the Study of the Neolithic in the Volga-Kama Region
The works by R.S. Gabyashev characterizing the Neolithic cultures of the Volga-Kama region with their combed and stroke-ornamented ceramics are analyzed in the article.
Lychagina Evgeniia L
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ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka +7 more
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Specific features of the process of cities and urban culture formation in Volga Bulgaria at different stages of historical development of the region are discussed in the article.
Rudenko Konstantin A.
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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The article analyzes the ceramics of the Late Eneolithic campsite of Bolshaya Rakovka II (Samara region). It is characterized by the complete predominance of straight-walled vessel forms with rounded bottoms.
Irina N. Vasilyeva, Arkady I. Korolev
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Abstract Current precipitation analysis focuses on extreme events or total amounts but misses a critical question: when does the majority of precipitation occur during the year? We introduce a framework that separates two fundamental aspects of precipitation patterns: how many of the wettest individual days contribute to annual totals versus what is ...
Saurav Bhattarai +2 more
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Cultural Components of the Ust-Vetluga Burial Ground
The cultural components of the Ust-Vetluga burial ground site, which is located on the left bank of the Cheboksary water reservoir, near Yurino village, the Mari El Republic, are analyzed in the article.
Soloviev Boris S.
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ABSTRACT Russia's Maternal Capital policy initially increased total fertility rates, stimulating much discussion on whether it would result in more births or only earlier births. Effects of that policy upon different ethnic groups within Russia, however, have not received systematic attention.
Konstantin Kazenin +2 more
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The object collection from the 17th-century Mari burial ground site near Kukshylidy village (Gornomariisky district, Mari El Republic), which was excavated in 1926 by the Middle Volga archaeological expedition led by P.P.
Fedulov Mikhail I. +1 more
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