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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS
ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
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The Zooarchaeology of ancient whaling practices in Portugal: A review and a new Roman Republican contribution at Castelo Velho de Safara. [PDF]
Nabais M, Soares R, Hurk YVD.
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Biblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín, 5 - 3 planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel.
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Anthropogenic noise is considered one of the most serious forms of pollution globally and has been shown to have negative effects on the distribution, behaviour, cognition and reproductive success of animal species worldwide. Among the most commonly reported impacts of anthropogenic noise are its effects on acoustic communication.
Grace Blackburn+4 more
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Southern Ocean humpback whales are shifting to an earlier return migration. [PDF]
Dunlop R, Gumley E, McGrath EH, Noad M.
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Energy Prices and Resource Depletion: Lessons from the Case of Whaling in the Nineteenth Century [PDF]
Ugo Bardi
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Leviathans and Liberation: Did Whaling Contribute to the Decline of Slavery?
ABSTRACT We test the hypothesis slavery started declining in the United States not due to fossil fuel‐driven industrialization but the exploitation of the bioenergy reserves of the world's largest animals. We predict the population in slavery in US states from 1790 to 1840 as a function of the recorded whaling harvest.
Topher L. McDougal+1 more
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