Archaeology and Rock Art of the North-West Arid Zone with a Focus on Animals

2018 ◽  
pp. 283-305
Author(s):  
Peter Veth ◽  
Jo McDonald ◽  
Sarah de Koning
Keyword(s):  
Arid Zone ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
North West ◽  
The North

scholarly journals A Journey to the North-West in Search of Rock Art. Part 2. A Ningxia Sequel

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Varenov ◽  
Maria A. Kudinova
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

A report on the scientific journey to the Ningxia-Hui Autonomous Region of the PRC in July 2019 is presented. During the journey the authors consulted Chinese rock art specialists, visited the Historical Museum of the Ningxia Province, Museum of Western Xia (Xi Xia), Helankou Rock Art Museum and the Helankou and Damaidi rock art sites in Helan and Zhongwei counties of the Ningxia-Hui Autonomous Region. Brief descriptions of the rock art sites and museum collections are given.

Australian Aborigines: geographical variability of craniological features.

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-251
Author(s):  
Aleksey V. Ivanov ◽  
Sergey V. Vasilyev
Keyword(s):  
Arid Zone ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Australian Aborigines ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
South Wales ◽  
High Form ◽  
Australian Continent ◽  
Mixed Origin

This work is devoted to the study of craniological traits of Australian aborigines (male and female samples) and their geographical differentiation applying a special program of cranial traits. According to the craniological classification (Pestryakov, Grigorieva, 2004), native population of Australia belongs to the Tropid craniotype, i.e. is characterized by a relatively small size and long, narrow and relatively high form of the skull. The primary settlement of the Australian continent could only origin in the North. There are two contrasting craniotypes in Australia, which probably reflect the two main waves of the aboriginal migration across the continent. The skulls of the first migratory wave were larger and relatively low-vaulted. They are mostly characteristic of the aborigines of South Australia, who later also migrated to the north, to the arid zone of Central Australia. The second major wave is characterized by smaller high-vaulted skulls, which are now characteristic of the population of the north of the continent (Queensland and, especially, the Northern Territory and North-West Australia). The territory of the southeast of Australia (Victoria and New South Wales states) is the most favorable area for human living. The two main migratory waves mixed there, which led to the observed craniological heterosis. The craniological samples of western and northwestern Australia are also of mixed origin, but are more comparable to the Northern Territory groups. The Tasmanians are significantly different from the General Australian population in terms of craniology. This is especially true for the female sample. Perhaps the ancestors of the Tasmanians represented the very first settlement wave of the ancient Sahul continent, before the separation of the island from the mainland.

Preliminary spatial behaviour of warru (Petrogale lateralis MacDonnell Ranges race) in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Ruykys ◽  
Matthew J. Ward ◽  
David A. Taggart ◽  
William G. Breed
Keyword(s):  
Global Positioning System ◽  
Arid Zone ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
South Australia ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Future Research ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
Global Positioning

This study aimed to determine the home range and movement patterns of Petrogale lateralis in the arid-zone Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in the north-west of South Australia. Ten Global Positioning System radio-collars were attached to animals, with collars programmed to function in 2008–09. Catastrophic collar failure resulted in only 28 days of data, from July 2008, being retrieved from one adult female. During this time, the female occupied a 90% kernel range of 57.9 ha and core (50%) range of 9.3 ha. The animal moved a total of 50.8 km and undertook three journeys of over 1 km. The longest of these was 1.2 km, undertaken in 89 min. The high mobility of the study animal has implications for management, particularly predator baiting and fire management strategies. Future research should assess the validity of these results by increasing sample size and conducting similar work for other arid-zone P. lateralis. The lessons learnt from the current GPS collar deployment may also be of interest to other researchers.

scholarly journals Petroglyphs of Mount Kremennaya and Problems of Their Chronology

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 663-673
Author(s):  
O. S. Sovetova ◽  
O. O. Shishkina ◽  
I. V. Abolonkova
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Detailed Understanding ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Minusinsk Basin ◽  
West Part ◽  
Similar Images ◽  
The 1960S

The paper features rock art images of Kremennaya mountain, which is situated in the North-West part of Tepsey archeological microdistrict. The images were discovered by Kemerovo archeologists in 2015. The opening of the petroglyph site replenished the collection of graphic sources of one of the largest rock art sites of the Minusinsk Basin. It also revealed a completely new graphic tradition of the late Bronze Age. In total, four surfaces covered with rock carvings were found, i.e. 52 distinct figures. They are presumably related to the Karasuk and Tagar cultures. According to the stylistic characteristics of Bronze Age, at least two art traditions were distinguished in the context of Karasuk culture: "Wire" figures and "full-weight" silhouette characters). Similar images were found in other site of the Tepsey mountains. Excavations performed in the 1960s revealed that Tepsey archaeological microdistrict has both burial and settlement sites of two chronological stages of the Karasuk culture (XIII to XI centuries, BC). The images of Kremennaya mount provide a more detailed understanding of Tepsey, which is one of the largest rock art sites of Minusinsk basin.

scholarly journals Conspicuously concealed: revision of the arid clade of theGehyra variegata(Gekkonidae) group in Western Australia using an integrative molecular and morphological approach, with the description of five cryptic species

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Kealley ◽  
Paul Doughty ◽  
Mitzy Pepper ◽  
J. Scott Keogh ◽  
Mia Hillyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cryptic Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Arid Zone ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Extreme North

The methods used to detect and describe morphologically cryptic species have advanced in recent years, owing to the integrative nature of molecular and morphological techniques required to elucidate them. Here we integrate recent phylogenomic work that sequenced many genes but few individuals, with new data from mtDNA and morphology from hundreds of gecko specimens of theGehyra variegatagroup from the Australian arid zone. To better understand morphological and geographical boundaries among cryptic forms, we generated new sequences from 656Gehyraindividuals, largely assigned toG. variegatagroup members over a wide area in Western Australia, with especially dense sampling in the Pilbara region, and combined them with 566Gehyrasequences from GenBank, resulting in a dataset of 1,222 specimens. Results indicated the existence of several cryptic species, from new species with diagnostic morphological characters, to cases when there were no useful characters to discriminate among genetically distinctive species. In addition, the cryptic species often showed counter-intuitive distributions, including broad sympatry among some forms and short range endemism in other cases. Two new species were on long branches in the phylogram and restricted to the northern Pilbara region: most records of the moderately sizedG. incognitasp. nov. are near the coast with isolated inland records, whereas the small-bodied saxicolineG. unguiculatasp. nov. is only known from a small area in the extreme north of the Pilbara. Three new species were on shorter branches in the phylogram and allied toG. montium. The moderately sizedG. cryptasp. nov. occurs in the western and southern Pilbara and extends south through the Murchison region; this species was distinctive genetically, but with wide overlap of characters with its sister species,G. montium. Accordingly, we provide a table of diagnostic nucleotides for this species as well as for all other species treated here. Two small-bodied species occur in isolated coastal regions:G. capensissp. nov. is restricted to the North West Cape andG. ocellatasp. nov. occurs on Barrow Island and other neighbouring islands. The latter species showed evidence of introgression with the mtDNA ofG. cryptasp. nov., possibly due to recent connectivity with the mainland owing to fluctuating sea levels. However,G. ocellatasp. nov. was more closely related toG. capensissp. nov. in the phylogenomic data and in morphology. Our study illustrates the benefits of combining phylogenomic data with extensive screens of mtDNA to identify large numbers of individuals to the correct cryptic species. This approach was able to provide sufficient samples with which to assess morphological variation. Furthermore, determination of geographic distributions of the new cryptic species should greatly assist with identification in the field, demonstrating the utility of sampling large numbers of specimens across wide areas.

scholarly journals Book Publications and Research of Petrogyphs of Northern Regions of China in the Last Quarter of the 20th Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Varenov
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
North West ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
Ancient Rock ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
Art Research

In China, rock art is spread mainly in the border regions – carvings and engravings in the north of the country and paintings in the south. Before the beginning of the 21st century, research books and albums of petroglyphs were published in four administrative units at provincial level in the north-west of the county: Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Xinjiang and Qinghai. Petroglyphs of Inner Mongolia were studied and published by Gai Shanlin, Liang Zhenhua and N. Dalengurib. The earliest and the latest books by Gai Shanlin available to us (published in 1985 and 2002 respectively) were entirely devoted to the interpretation of rock carvings and searches for their analogies. All four monographs on Ningxia rock art – by Zhou Xinghua, Li Xiangshi and Zhu Cunshi, Xu Cheng and Wei Zhong were published almost simultaneously, at the beginning of the 1990s. Ancient rock art of Xinjiang was published in albums by Zhao Yangfeng, Wang Linshan and Wang Bo and in books by Wang Binghua and Su Beihai. The monograph by Tang Huisheng and Zhang Wenhua was devoted to the description of Qinghai petroglyphs and the problems of their interpretation. The album of photos “The Rock Arts of China” is a kind of a guide to the main rock art sites known by 1993 in all the Chinese provinces. Generally, it can be stated that modern Chinese scientific rock art research was born in the first half of the 1980s, when the first articles on rock carvings started to appear in Chinese archaeological periodicals and flourished in the second half of the 1980s and the 1990s, when quite a number of monographs were published.

Evaluation of adaptability of zucchini in the arid zone of the north-west of the Caspian Sea region

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-222
Author(s):  
Natalya V. Tyutyuma ◽  
◽  
Anastasia N. Bondarenko ◽  
Lyudmila V. Bogosoryanskaya ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Caspian Sea ◽  
Arid Zone ◽  
The Caspian Sea ◽  
North West ◽  
The North

Phytogeography of Acacia in Australia in Relation to Climate and Species-Richness

1988 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
RJ Hnatiuk ◽  
BR Maslin
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Arid Zone ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Evolutionary Significance ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Geographic Patterns ◽  
South West ◽  
Eastern Australia

This paper reports on the kinds of geographic patterns encountered in the distribution of Australian species of Acacia and on some climatic correlates of these patterns. The analyses were based on distribution data of 837 species mapped on a 1° x 1.5° grid. The area of highest density of species was the south-west corner of the continent, especially adjacent to the major boundary separating the Arid Zone from the more humid South West Botanical Province. The second major centre of richness occurred in eastern Australia south of the Tropic of Capricorn along the topographically heterogeneous Great Dividing Range. Secondary centres of species-richness occurred in northern and north-eastern Australia, a number of rocky tablelands of the Arid Zone and in western Victoria. The principal species-poor areas were located in sandy and some riverine areas of the Arid Zone, in temperate forests of Tasmania and in coastal areas of the north of the continent. The geographic patterns of each section of Acacia, when combined with those of species density, highlighted the tropical (section Juliflorae) v. temperate areas (sections Phyllodineae, Pulchellae, Botrycephalae and Alatae). The numerical classification of grids resulted in the recognition of eight major Acacia areas, arranged under four Acacia regions: (1) South-west; (2) Eastern, comprising a southern and a northern area; (3) Northern, comprising an eastern and a western area; (4) Central, comprising a south-east, a central and a north-west area. A discriminant function analysis indicated that precipitation was more important than temperature in distinguishing between areas. Discussion of the potential evolutionary significance of these findings and brief comparison with other biogeographic studies are given.

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