How the socio-cultural practices of fishing obscure micro-disciplinary, verbal, and psychological abuse of migrant fishers in North East Scotland

Knappach Toll, Balbridie: a late 3rd-millennium bc Beaker burial on Deeside, Aberdeenshire

Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports ◽

10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2019.83 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 83 ◽

pp. 1-36

Author(s):

Olivia Lelong ◽

Iraia Arabaolaza ◽

Torben Ballin ◽

Jane Evans ◽

Richard P Evershed ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cultural Transmission ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Residue Analysis ◽

Isotope Analysis ◽

The Body ◽

The West ◽

Animal Fat ◽

North East ◽

And Migration

A short cist discovered during ploughing at Knappach Toll on Balbridie Farm, Aberdeenshire held the remains of an adult accompanied by a Beaker, fragments of a copper awl and 11 struck flints. Little survived of the skeleton except for cranial fragments, but these indicate that the person had been placed with the head to the west, with the artefacts also at that end. While the sex of the person is indeterminate, with the single surviving sexual dimorphic trait suggesting a male, the position of the body and the presence of the awl are more usually indicative of a female. Radiocarbon dating shows that the person died between 3775±35 years bp (SUERC-30852) and 2330–2040 cal bc (95.4% probability). Stable isotope analysis indicates that he or she grew up on basalt geology, like that of the region, or on chalk. Residue analysis of the Beaker has established that it had held ruminant animal fat such as butter or milk, probably for some time, and some of the flint pieces had been lightly used. The composition and constituents of the burial suggest links between north-east Scotland and East Yorkshire. They also evoke the cultural practices that were spreading across eastern Britain in the later 3rd millennium bc through the mechanisms of cultural transmission and migration.

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Knappach Toll, Balbridie: a late 3rd-millennium bc Beaker burial on Deeside, Aberdeenshire

Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports ◽

10.9750/issn.2019.83 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 83 ◽

pp. 1-36

Author(s):

Olivia Lelong ◽

Iraia Arabaolaza ◽

Torben Ballin ◽

Jane Evans ◽

Richard P Evershed ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cultural Transmission ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Residue Analysis ◽

Isotope Analysis ◽

The Body ◽

The West ◽

Animal Fat ◽

North East ◽

And Migration

A short cist discovered during ploughing at Knappach Toll on Balbridie Farm, Aberdeenshire held the remains of an adult accompanied by a Beaker, fragments of a copper awl and 11 struck flints. Little survived of the skeleton except for cranial fragments, but these indicate that the person had been placed with the head to the west, with the artefacts also at that end. While the sex of the person is indeterminate, with the single surviving sexual dimorphic trait suggesting a male, the position of the body and the presence of the awl are more usually indicative of a female. Radiocarbon dating shows that the person died between 3775±35 years bp (SUERC-30852) and 2330–2040 cal bc (95.4% probability). Stable isotope analysis indicates that he or she grew up on basalt geology, like that of the region, or on chalk. Residue analysis of the Beaker has established that it had held ruminant animal fat such as butter or milk, probably for some time, and some of the flint pieces had been lightly used. The composition and constituents of the burial suggest links between north-east Scotland and East Yorkshire. They also evoke the cultural practices that were spreading across eastern Britain in the later 3rd millennium bc through the mechanisms of cultural transmission and migration.

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Incidence and Management of Bamboo Diseases in North East India

International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ◽

10.20546/ijcmas.2021.1011.031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. 266-276

Author(s):

Gurpreet Kaur Bhamra Rajib Kumar Borah

Keyword(s):

Cultural Practices ◽

Control Measure ◽

Abiotic Factors ◽

Severe Disease ◽

Foliar Spray ◽

Northeast India ◽

Emerging Diseases ◽

Effective Control ◽

North East ◽

Blight Disease

Bamboo is an indispensable plant resource for the rural people of Northeast India due to its diverse use in everyday life. In India, there are about 136 species of bamboo belonging to 23 genera, covering an area of about 14 million hectares. Of these, the Northeastern region has 15 genera and 90 species covering 29,396 sq. km, which comprises of about 28% of the total bamboo growing area in the country. However, the production potential of bamboo is greatly affected by various biotic and abiotic factors viz., erratic rainfall, fire, grazing, unscientific harvesting and pests and diseases. A total 437 microbes, belonging to 12 phyla and 46 orders have been reported to affect bamboos in India. However, only 37 fungal diseases have been reported to affect bamboos in Northeast India of which, 6 are nursery diseases and 31 are plantation diseases. Among these, web blight disease of bamboo caused by Rhizoctonia solani in Bambusa bambos is one of the most serious emerging diseases of bamboo nurseries. The fungus grows in a very rapid manner which can eventually destroy the whole nursery bed within a few days of infection. Foliar spray of Validamycin (0.1%) or Propiconazole (0.1%) at an interval of 15 days after emergence of seedlings proved to be an effective control measure for the disease. Among the diseases in plantations, culm rot and bamboo blight disease caused by Fusarium udum, is the most severe disease affecting economically important bamboo plantations viz., Bambusa balcooa, B. tulda and B. nutans in Assam. The disease is most common in the flood affected areas and could be managed by adopting routine cultural practices followed by soil drenching with Carbendazim @ 0.1% twice (once before and once after the emergence of new shoots).

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Anthropo-entomophagy in Guaycurú linguistic groups from Argentina: past and present

Journal of Insects as Food and Feed ◽

10.3920/jiff2015.0075 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 15-26

Author(s):

M.S. Loiácono ◽

C. Margaría ◽

M.A. Giovannetti ◽

S. Silva

Keyword(s):

Cultural Practices ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Mato Grosso ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

Gran Chaco ◽

Indigenous Groups ◽

Chaco Region ◽

Linguistic Groups ◽

The Relationship

This work is a brief outline of the consumption and use of several insect taxa and products taking into account historical sources of the 18th century for the Gran Chaco region and more recent ethnographic data. The Meridional and Central Chaco subregion of Argentina is a vast semi-arid plain in the north-east of the country between the Pilcomayo river and the Salado river basin. The subregion forms part of the South American Gran Chaco area. During the 18th century, the linguistic families Guaycurú and Mataco-Mataguayan resided in the Central Chaco subregion. The Guaycurú linguistic family includes the current languages Toba-Qom, Pilagá, Toba-Pilagá, Mocoví, as well as the Caduveo language from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. The report focuses on the Guaycurú groups to illustrate the diversity of insects significantly involved in their cultural practices, which have been sustained over time up to the present, and are presumably oldest. Jesuit chroniclers have provided abundant evidence about Guaycurú groups from the Argentine Chaco region. They fostered Catholic missions in the region and lived in reductions with the Guaycurú populations. The relationship of Chaco indigenous groups with insects and other species is a reflection of their deep identification with the environment. The relationship with the territory goes beyond the idea of a land where to settle. Rather, it refers to feeding and using the land conceived as an organic structure full of energy, the same energy that forms part of the entities of nature and, naturally, of insects as well.

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Social epistemic actions

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002802 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Giovanni Pezzulo ◽

Laura Barca ◽

Domenico Maisto ◽

Francesco Donnarumma

Keyword(s):

Social Interaction ◽

Joint Action ◽

Niche Construction ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Learning Processes ◽

Epistemic Actions ◽

Target Article ◽

Online Social Interaction

Abstract We consider the ways humans engage in social epistemic actions, to guide each other's attention, prediction, and learning processes towards salient information, at the timescale of online social interaction and joint action. This parallels the active guidance of other's attention, prediction, and learning processes at the longer timescale of niche construction and cultural practices, as discussed in the target article.

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Ras al Khaimah: further archaeological discoveries

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00150070 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 50 (200) ◽

pp. 216-222

Author(s):

Beatrice De Cardi

Keyword(s):

United Arab Emirates ◽

The State ◽

Focused Attention ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

History Of ◽

The City

Ras a1 Khaimah is the most northerly of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates and its Ruler, H. H. Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qasimi, is keenly interested in the history of the state and its people. Survey carried out there jointly with Dr D. B. Doe in 1968 had focused attention on the site of JuIfar which lies just north of the present town of Ras a1 Khaimah (de Cardi, 1971, 230-2). Julfar was in existence in Abbasid times and its importance as an entrep6t during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-the Portuguese Period-is reflected by the quantity and variety of imported wares to be found among the ruins of the city. Most of the sites discovered during the survey dated from that period but a group of cairns near Ghalilah and some long gabled graves in the Shimal area to the north-east of the date-groves behind Ras a1 Khaimah (map, FIG. I) clearly represented a more distant past.

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