Abstract Vegetation plays a crucial role in nature, with intricate interactions between it and the geographical environment. The Yangtze River Basin (YRB) refers to the third largest river basin globally and an essential ecological security barrier in China.
Jing Fu +7 more
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RE-EVALUATING MAPS OF DOMESDAY POPULATION DENSITIES: A case study from the Cambridgeshire fenland [PDF]
Professor Sir Clifford Darby’s county, regional and national maps of a range of data drawn from the Domesday Book revolutionized scholarship on the social and economic history of late Anglo-Saxon England (e.g. 1935, 1936a, 1936b, 1971, 1977).
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Pathways for scale and discipline reconciliation: current socio-ecological modelling methodologies to explore and reconstitute human prehistoric dynamics [PDF]
International audienceThis communication elaborates a plea for the necessity of a specific modelling methodology which does not sacrifice two modelling principles: explanation Micro and correlation Macro. Three goals are assigned to modelling strategies:
A Bogaard +50 more
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Abstract In geoarchaeological studies, there is an issue with distinguishing between natural and anthropogenic signals in pedological paleoarchives. With the pedostratigraphy of the Upper Paleolithic site of Kostenki 14, this issue is reflected by problems with the determination of features of pedogenic and pyrogenic processes. This issue was addressed
Anastasiia Kurgaeva +6 more
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A Bronze Age Round Barrow Cemetery, Pit Alignments, Iron Age Burials, Iron Age Copper Working, and Later Activity at Four Crosses, Llandysilio, Powys. [PDF]
Excavation undertaken at the Upper Severn valley round barrow cemetery at Four Crosses, Llandysilio between 2004 and 2006 has increased the known barrows and ring-ditches to some 26 monuments, and revealed additional burials.
Anon +87 more
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Monuments at Risk in England's Wetlands [PDF]
Copyright © Robert Van de Noort. This is the third and final draft of the Monuments at Risk in England’s Wetlands project. Monuments at Risk in England’s Wetlands is a research project into the changing nature of the archaeological resource in England’s ...
Carstairs, Ian +4 more
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A review of climate change impacts on urban soil functions with examples and policy insights from England, UK [PDF]
As of 2010, more than half of the global population resides in urban areas and relies to some extent on the functions, services and natural capital provided by urban soils.
Bartlett, M. +3 more
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Temporary consolidation and excavation of artifacts at waterlogged archaeological sites
Ensuring the preservation of fragile artifacts from waterlogged archaeological sites demands the advancement of extraction techniques that uphold both safety and the integrity of historical data. Conventionally employed extraction materials are predominantly applicable to sites exhibiting high soil stability and low moisture content, whereas the ...
Xue-Qiang Chen +4 more
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Charcoal morphometry for paleoecological analysis: The effects of fuel type and transportation on morphological parameters [PDF]
This is the final version of the article. Available from Botanical Society of America via the DOI in this record.Premise of the study: Charcoal particles preserved in sediments are used as indicators of paleowildfire.
Belcher, CM, Crawford, AJ
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Ancient plant DNA in archaeobotany [PDF]
Plant diaspores, tissues and wood are preserved in natural and anthropogenic sediments. Also, over the past centuries, plants have been collected in herbaria.
Jaenicke-Després, Viviane +2 more
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