Megaliths, Monumentality and Memory

Gwangju News, No. 170, pp. 29-31, August, 2024

Interview with Lindsay Herron

Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk, 2019

ВЕСТНИК АРХЕОЛОГИИ, АНТРОПОЛОГИИ И ЭТНОГРАФИИ , 2024

Individual from the kurgan burial of the XII century in the Middle Oka — experience of complex archaeological and genetic research For the first time, this paper presents a complex study of the burial of the ancient Russian woman from the classic “Vyatich” mound from the Kremenyie burial site (Moscow region). The mounds and synchronized ground cremation burials are combined at this unique 12th-century burial site. The aim of this research is to examine the historical details of the person from the mound using conventional archaeological, anthropological, and archaeoparasitology methodologies along with modern paleogenetics methods. The burial site is characterized by a general “archaic” rite, manifested in the late preservation of the cremation rite along with the burial. According to anthropological data, an elderly woman, over forty, was buried there. She was identified as a member of the local population by radiogenic strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) study. Rich grave content and the fact that the body was buried in the middle of the mound indicate the woman's high social standing in the community. According to archaeoparasitological data, the eating habits of the woman appear to be characterized by the consumption of uncooked or insufficiently thermally prepared freshwater fish. The complete mtDNA sequence reconstruction indicates that it belongs to haplogroup V1a1, one of the Western Eurasian haplogroup V branches. To date, this represents the first case of the V1a1 mitogroup being found in the Russian Plain during ancient times. A representative of the Danish Viking clan from the Oxford burial site of the XI century was the closest of the ancient samples to the mtDNA of the studied woman, which indicates a genetic relationship on the maternal lineage with the medieval Northwestern European population. Single nucleotide substitution A7299G in the mitogenome of the woman clusters her with present-day Russians from the Belgorod and Pskov regions and shows the continuity of the modern Russian population with the Ancient Russians. Thus, the results of our study demonstrate the private details of the individual as common historical features, which include the ceremonial side of burial and belonging to the maternal genetic lineage preserved in the modern gene pool of the Russian population.

Journal of strength and conditioning research / National Strength & Conditioning Association, 2015

Winwood, PW, Cronin, JB, Posthumus, LR, Finlayson, SJ, Gill, ND, and Keogh, JWL. Strongman vs. traditional resistance training effects on muscular function and performance. J Strength Cond Res 29(2): 429-439, 2015-Currently, no evidence exists as to the effectiveness of strongman training programs for performance enhancement. This study compared the effects of 7 weeks of strongman resistance training vs. traditional resistance training on body composition, strength, power, and speed measures. Thirty experienced resistance-trained rugby players were randomly assigned to one of the 2 groups; strongman (n = 15; mean ± SD: age, 23.4 ± 5.6 years; body mass, 91.2 ± 14.8 kg; height, 180.1 ± 6.8 cm) or traditional (n = 15; mean ± SD: age, 22.5 ± 3.4 years; body mass, 93.7 ± 12.3 kg; height, 181.3 ± 5.9 cm). The strongman and traditional training programs required the participants to train twice a week and contained exercises that were matched for biomechanical similarity with equal loading....

Book Review of Indian Art History: Changing Perspectives, edited by Parul Pandya Dhar

Монография продолжает опыт кафедры международного и европейского права УрГЮУ по подготовке и изданию тематических межвузовских сборников по проблемам международного права. В ней рассмотрены различные аспекты соотношения и взаимодействия международного и внутригосударственного права с учетом правоприменительной активности правоохранительных и судебных органов. Среди авторов монографии – специалисты как в области международного, так и различных отраслей национального права. Исследователям международного права, а также преподавателям, аспирантам и студентам юридических вузов.