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Of cables and threads

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 283-295, August 2026.
Abstract Over the past two decades, gondola lifts have become central to interventions in urban Latin America's auto‐constructed peripheries. As cable car urbanism reshapes the city's edge, it raises fundamental questions about the notion of the “urban fabric” as a sociomaterial practice, an epistemology, and a site of politics.
Federico Pérez Fernández
wiley   +1 more source

7000 Years of Aboriginal Mining at Sugarloaf Hill in the Riverland Region of South Australia

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 277-311, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Silcrete and chert are commonly represented in Aboriginal archaeological lithic assemblages across large parts of the southwestern Murray‐Darling Basin (MDB). In South Australia (SA), these materials were sourced from a series of quarries located along the incised course of the Murray River through the upper Riverland region.
Craig Westell   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Word-formation in Kazakh toponyms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Modern Kazakh values: nation, language, culture can be analyzed through its word-stock of geographical terms - toponyms. In general, toponyms of any country can reveal linguistic and cultural peculiarities national language: history of the nation, its ...
Sydykova, Z.E.   +5 more
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Toponyms with the base *baz [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
During the research, it has been considered which toponyms on the Balkan Peninsula are named after the plant elder (Proto-Slavic base *baz). Using etymology dictionaries, as well as the list of settlements of the Republic of Serbia, we have found twenty ...
Nikić Biljana V.
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The Turkification of Toponyms in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2010
The present article examines the methods and stages of the policy of Turkification of the non-Muslim toponyms in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. Being stable linguistic facts, toponyms supply valuable material for topography and studies of
Lusine Sahakyan
doaj   +1 more source

Scrutinizing the Wallacean shortfall: global gaps in snake occurrence data across space and environment

open access: yesEcography, Volume 2026, Issue 7, July 2026.
Occurrence records are fundamental for ecological and evolutionary research, providing key information on species' geographic ranges. However, these records are often taxonomically, spatially, and temporally biased, requiring caution in their use. Here, we analysed the spatial coverage of occurrence records for over 3500 snake species worldwide to ...
Lívia Frateles   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Statistical characteristics of county-level administrative toponyms. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Statistical characteristics of county-level administrative toponyms.
Dazhuan Ge (6275186)   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Spatial distribution of toponyms and formation mechanism in traditional villages in Western Hunan, China

open access: yesHeritage Science
Traditional village toponyms contain rich vernacular geographical information, profound cultural connotations, and social group memories. Studying the meanings and spatial distribution characteristics of traditional village toponyms and their formation ...
Yaliang Liu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Formation features of Persian toponyms

open access: yesНеофилология, 2020
This research is dedicated to the comprehension toponyms in the Persian language, which have their own formation features. Being a class of nouns, Persian toponyms have a wide variety of formation due to common linguistic processes in this region.
V. I. Yuzbashyev
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling bedload transport at the network scale in a glacier‐fed Alpine river system

open access: yesEarth Surface Processes and Landforms, Volume 51, Issue 7, July 2026.
We adapted the network‐scale sediment transport and connectivity model D‐CASCADE for Alpine environments and applied it to the Sulden/Solda catchment (Italy). For the first time, we validate the model with continuous bedload measurements at the catchment outlet and evaluate the plausibility of bedload dynamics along the river network with field ...
Felix Pitscheider   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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