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From politics to economics: The investigation of the determinants of local administrative hierarchy in the Tang–Song transition

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 39-78, March 2025.
Abstract This study collects original data to examine the determinants of classification criteria of county hierarchy and its rank variations during the Tang–Song period. The results reveal that the county hierarchy was affected by both economic and political situations, with more emphasis on politics in Tang and economics in Song.
Nan Li, Heqi Cai
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a Cutting–Extrusion Soil-Crushing Model for Peanut Harvesting and Optimization of Key Components

open access: yesAgriculture
This study aims to address the major challenges encountered during peanut harvesting and digging in saline–alkali soils, including high digging resistance, poor soil fragmentation, and difficulty separating pods from the soil.
Zengcun Chang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
Karl Bergemann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming climate sentinels

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In South Korea, forest scientists refashion themselves as “climate sentinels” as they confront subtle yet disquieting shifts in plant seasonality brought about by climate change. Unlike traditional sentinels, who watch for external threats from a frontier, climate sentinels face ecological anomalies and surprises—such as untimely flowering ...
Sumin Myung
wiley   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling Patterns of Past Inundation Processes Combining Geoarchaeology and Morphometric Hydrological Analysis in the Shashe‐Limpopo Basin, South Africa

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Riverine and valley systems across the globe have been central to the development of past urban centres. By AD 900, the Shashe and Limpopo Rivers seem to have facilitated the interaction and integration of early farming communities in southern Africa. This paper focuses on the application of geoarchaeological perspectives made available by the
B. S. Nxumalo
wiley   +1 more source

Freshwater common reeds in the Yellow River Delta responding to salt stress_CK

open access: yes, 2019
Freshwater common reed (F) in Yellow River Delta responding to salt stress. F0 (0 mmol/L NaCl treatment):F10, F20, F29.
Guangxuan Han (7820141)   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Towards an ‘absolute’ timing of biostratigraphic and environmental phases from the Saalian late glacial to the Weichselian pleniglacial in central Europe—Insights from a lacustrine succession in Lichtenberg, northern Germany

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Palynological records are central to the biostratigraphic subdivision of the Late Pleistocene in central Europe. Yet many interglacial and interstadial phases—such as the Eemian, Brörup and Odderade—remain only poorly constrained in time due to limited numerical dating.
Michael Hein   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study of the Rationale, Practices and Methodology for Keeping Healthy Life of the Yellow River

open access: yes, 2005
This paper presents author's thinking and suggestions on the framework of keeping healthy life of the Yellow River. It mainly includes the following issues: understanding the life of a river, human impact on the river, healthy Yellow River criteria and ...
Xia J., Sun Y. B.
core  

A bifacial paradise—The site of Ochtmissen, Germany, and its lithic assemblage in the context of the last glacial (early MIS 4) in the north‐central European Lowland

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
The Palaeolithic site of Ochtmissen (Lower Saxony, Germany) was excavated in fluvial terrace deposits during the winter of 1993/1994. The current study presents, for the first time, a thorough analysis of the lithic assemblage, encompassing its primary technological and typological characteristics, as well as the type and age of the fluvial deposits ...
Gianpiero Di Maida   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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