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2018, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Scientific Reports
Multidisciplinary evidence of an isolated Neanderthal occupation in Abric del Pastor (Alcoi, Iberian Peninsula)Testing Neanderthal behavioural hypotheses requires a spatial–temporal resolution to the level of a human single occupation episode. Yet, most of the behavioural data on Neanderthals has been obtained from coarsely dated, time-averaged contexts affected by the archaeological palimpsest effect and a diversity of postdepositional processes. This implies that time-resolved Neanderthal behaviour remains largely unknown. In this study, we performed archaeostratigraphic analysis on stratigraphic units ive, ivf, ivg, va, vb and vc from Abric del Pastor (Alcoi, Iberian Peninsula). Further, we isolated the archaeological remains associated with the resulting archaeostratigraphic unit and applied raw material, technological, use-wear, archaeozoological and spatial analyses. Our results show a low-density accumulation of remains from flintknapping, flint tool-use and animal processing around a hearth. These data provide a time-resolved human dimension to previous high-resolution environmental ...
Quaternary International
Understanding the ancient habitats of the last-interglacial (late MIS5) Neanderthals of central Iberia: paleoenvironmental and taphonomic evidence from the Cueva del Camino (Spain) siteTesting Neanderthal behavioural hypotheses requires a spatial-temporal resolution to the level of a single human occupation episode. Yet, most of the behavioural data on Neanderthals has been obtained from coarsely dated, time-averaged contexts affected by the archaeological palimpsest effect and a diversity of postdepositional processes. This implies that time-resolved Neanderthal behaviour remains largely unknown. In this study, we performed archaeostratigraphic analysis on stratigraphic units ive, ivf, ivg, va, vb and vc from Abric del Pastor (Alcoi, Iberian peninsula). Further, we isolated the archaeological remains associated with the resulting archaeostratigraphic unit and applied raw material, technological, use-wear, archaeozoological and spatial analyses. Our results show a low-density accumulation of remains from flintknapping, flint tool-use and animal processing around a hearth. These data provide a time-resolved human dimension to previous high-resolution environmental ...
The article discusses three stages of exacerbation of the climatic and epidemic situation in the western part of the Golden Horde and neighboring European states at the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th centuries (1285-1288, 1297-1300, 1309). The data from written sources allow concluding that in the 1280s, nomads were very afraid of some epidemic disease. Its main symptoms were: contagiousness, rapid death within a few days, and hemoptysis. It can be assumed less confidently that there were ulcers affecting the skin and buboes. Such symptoms can be correlated with the plague in its pulmonary, carbuncular, and bubonic forms. The main means of combating epidemics of deadly diseases among the Golden Horde nomads was quarantine. Two types of quarantine were applied. Individual quarantine, where a sick person was not allowed to enter the nomadic camp. Mass quarantine was used when the nomadic army was in settled regions. The population of the cities where the epidemic occurred was prohibited from leaving them. The cities were surrounded by troops. Magical practices could also be used to stop the epidemic. A direct connection is traced between the deterioration of the climatic and epidemic situation in the Golden Horde and the military activity of the nomads. Droughts, outbreaks of epidemics, and epizootics led to usually unsuccessful raids into neighboring regions and military clashes between various groups of nomads within the state.
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International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Moorella stamsii sp. nov., a new anaerobic thermophilic hydrogenogenic carboxydotroph isolated from digester sludge2013 •
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Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
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