THE FINAL STAGE OF NINEVITE 5 POTTERY: MORPHOLOGICAL TYPES, TECHNOLOGY AND DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS FROM TELL ARBID (NORTH-EAST SYRIA)

Iraq ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 175-214
Author(s):  
Anna Smogorzewska
Keyword(s):  
Final Stage ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Internal Development ◽  
North East ◽  
Diachronic Analysis ◽  
A Site

This paper presents major trends in pottery development in the final Ninevite 5 period, which corresponds to the final EJZ 2 period in the Syrian Jezirah. This discussion is based primarily on a pottery assemblage from Tell Arbid, a site in north-east Syria. The pottery was recovered from a dwelling quarter (Area D), where both final Ninevite 5 (final EJZ 2) and post-Ninevite 5 (EZJ 3) occupation were recognized. Excavations at Tell Arbid have provided new data regarding the late Ninevite 5 pottery repertoire and its internal development. Morphological types of vessels and their technology are discussed at length. Major traits of the final Ninevite 5 pottery are recognized and defined, including pottery “index fossils” as well as some less distinct pottery types. Chronological variability of pottery types has also been traced, special attention being given to continuity and changes in pottery production between final Ninevite 5 and post-Ninevite 5 (EJZ 3) periods. A trend toward standardization visible in the final Ninevite 5 pottery development is related to political and economic factors in the Syrian Jezirah at this time.

Dispersion and abundance of Maritrema arenaria in Semibalanus balanoides in north-east Ireland

1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Carrol ◽  
W. I. Montgomery ◽  
R. E. B. Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Size Structure ◽  
Background Level ◽  
Host Population ◽  
Parasite Infection ◽  
Semibalanus Balanoides ◽  
Low Background ◽  
Digenean Trematode ◽  
North East ◽  
Parasitic Burden ◽  
A Site

ABSTRACTInfection of the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides with the digenean trematode Maritrema arenaria was investigated at 17 sites along the Co. Down coastline. There was a low background level of infection. Abundance of M. arenaria, however, was substantially greater at sites close to fish factories and at a site close to a sewage works. Aggregation of M. arenaria in S. balanoides was least marked at low mean parasite burdens. The parasitic burden was related more closely to barnacle size at a site of heavy infection than at one with a low abundance. There was a significant association between height on the shore and number of encysted metacercariae in S. balanoides. This was independent of variation in host size. It is concluded that relationships that bring about overdispersion of digeneans, such as that between the size-structure of the host population and parasite infection, may be dependent on the overall abundance of the parasite.

scholarly journals Technological analysis of Early Bronze ceramics of Shauke 1 settlement

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-107
Author(s):  
Saule Zhangeldyevna Rakhimzhanova
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Organic Solution ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
North East ◽  
First Results ◽  
East Kazakhstan ◽  
Preparatory Stage ◽  
Technological Analysis

The paper introduces the first results of special technical and technological investigation of ceramic artifacts discovered during the excavations of the Early Bronze Age settlement Shauke 1 located in the Pavlodar Region of North-East Kazakhstan. The research of ceramic objects is conducted within historical and cultural approach following A.A. Bobrinskys technique. 53 samples from different vessels were selected for the technological analysis of ceramic artifacts found at the settlement. The samples were investigated with the use of a binocular microscope MBS-10. The main objective of the research was to identify cultural traditions at a preparatory stage of ceramic vessels production. The author studied initial raw materials selection skills and forming substance preparation. The author recorded the use of several conditional spots as sources of raw materials. Six different recipes of forming substances were identified at the settlement of Shauke 1. The most common amongst them are clay + chamotte + organic solution (60,38%), clay + chamotte + bone + organic solution (28,30%). This indicates the presence of artisans who followed different traditions of pottery production at the site.

Effect of pod burial, light, and temperature on seed softening in yellow serradella

1999 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 1203 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. Taylor ◽  
C. K. Revell
Keyword(s):  
Final Stage ◽  
Soil Surface ◽  
Light Level ◽  
Inhibitory Effect ◽  
Temperature Treatment ◽  
Diurnal Temperature ◽  
Light Levels ◽  
Buried Seeds ◽  
Softening Process ◽  
A Site

Studies were made on the preconditioning stage (which produces latent soft seeds) and the final stage of seed softening in newly ripened seeds of the GEH72-1A accession of yellow serradella (Ornithopus compressus L.). Pods grown at Yelbeni, Western Australia, in 1996 were collected in December and placed on the soil surface or buried at a depth of 0.5 cm at a site near Perth. Other pods were subjected to a gradual diurnal temperature fluctuation of 60/15°C in darkness in a laboratory chamber. Pod samples were taken from the field at intervals from January to June in 1997, and over 336 days from the 60/15°C treatment. Pods were broken into segments and the number of soft seeds determined. Numbers of latent soft seeds were then determined by subjecting residual hard seeds to 7 gradual diurnal temperature cycles of 48/15°C in darkness and retesting for permeability. In a second experiment, seeds preconditioned at the soil surface until 3 March were subjected to a range of light levels in the field in March before testing for permeability. The time taken for seeds to precondition under a range of constant temperatures between 30° and 70°C was determined in a third experiment. Preconditioning commenced early in summer in both surface and buried seeds. All buried seeds that preconditioned completed the softening process to produce about 80% soft seeds, with most seeds softening in March when diurnal temperatures fluctuated between maxima of 45–50°C and minima of 10–20°C. Only 15% of the seeds at the soil surface softened so that relatively few preconditioned seeds completed the softening process. Preconditioning occurred more rapidly than did the completion of softening in the 60/15°C treatment, indicating that this temperature regime was above optimum for the final stage of softening. Reversal of the preconditioning process took place in the field as temperatures declined during May. Effects of reduced temperatures in causing this reversion were confirmed in the laboratory on seeds preconditioned at 60/15°C. The final stage of softening was inhibited in some seeds by light levels as low as 0.3% of daylight, and in all seeds at a light level between 5 and 25%. A close negative linear relation was obtained between the log of the time taken for 50% of seeds to precondition and the constant temperature treatment between 30°C and 70°C, with the rate of preconditioning doubling with every 5.2°C rise in temperature within this range. Although many seeds preconditioned at the soil surface, the main constraint to completion of the seed softening process during autumn was the inhibitory effect of light.

scholarly journals Uganda's National Parks

Oryx ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 316-318
Author(s):  
C. R. S. Pitman
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Wild Ungulates ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Preventive Effort ◽  
South West ◽  
The World ◽  
Wild Life

The Uganda Government has long been subject to much adverse criticism for its apparent reluctance to fulfil its share of the obligations towards wild life which were agreed upon by Great Britain in 1933, at the international conference held in London for the better protection of the African fauna. The world however was then in the throes of a disastrous financial depression, from which recovery was slow, and it was scarcely the time for the small Uganda Protectorate, with its limited resources, to embark on a costly scheme for creating national parks. Moreover, ever since the proclamation of the Protectorate in 1894 Uganda has suffered more severely from rinderpest, that terrible scourge of cattle, than any other British territory in Africa. The direct loss in livestock has been appalling, but the indirect loss, which can be assessed as the measure of the preventive effort on the part of the Veterinary Department, has been positively staggering. Rinderpest has for long been endemic in the regions of Ethiopia to the north-east and never a year has passed without the dread disease appearing on Uganda's northern and eastern frontiers. The wild ungulates introduced, harboured and transmitted the disease—the cattle could be controlled, not so the wild animals except possibly by the repugnant method of destruction. Outside the limits of Uganda few have realized the grim and costly struggle which continued relentlessly year by year, and still fewer have ever appreciated that little Uganda with its gallant band of veterinary workers has again and again staved off disaster from reaching the territories lying to the south and south-west. Rinderpest was no respecter of game reserves in which the disease-stricken ungulates suffered as heavily as anywhere else and therefore there were economic factors of considerable gravity involved in the question of alienation of relatively large areas as national parks. It seemed preferable and wiser to endeavour to free Uganda from the ravages of rinderpest, before setting aside as national parks areas which could function as reservoirs of the disease.

scholarly journals Excavations in Melos, 1897

1897 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecil Smith
Keyword(s):  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
British School ◽  
A Site

At the close of last year's Report (British School Annual, vol. ii., p. 76) it was stated that we had begun late in the season of 1896 an excavation on a site at Phylakopi, in the north-east of the island. The results then obtained were of so promising a character, that it was determined to constitute Phylakopi as the main objective of the campaign of 1897, and in fact to lay siege to the prehistoric fortress with all the forces at our disposition.

scholarly journals Alien—Different—One’s Own. North-east ethnic and lingual cultural frontier of Ukraine (Kharkiv, Donbas)

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-30
Author(s):  
Yurii Barabash
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
North East ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
Cultural Renaissance ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Essential Function ◽  
Diachronic Analysis ◽  
Historical Periods

In the article, which continues the discourse of ethnocultural frontier, the attention is focused on the facts and problems referring to the Ukrainian-Russian cultural frontier of Eastern Ukraine. Polyethnic character of the society initially, since the mid 17th century, determined the presence of two culture-forming components in the region, namely Ukrainian and Russian ones, the dynamics of their correlation in various historical periods, the motion of transitive forms and ambivalent conditions. (The Jewish element acquired the essential function in the ethnocultural system of the region later, mainly in the 20th century.) In the frames of the so-called Kharkiv school of romantics a unique linguocultural situation, not deprived of paradoxicality, was formed, in which Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism objectively performed as one of the factors shaping the development of the Ukrainian literature. From this perspective, the article conducts the diachronic analysis of the main stages of the literary process in Ukrainian Slobozhanshchyna, mainly in its center, Kharkiv. The researcher focuses on such issues and phenomena as the role and signiƗ cance of Kharkiv University founded in 1805; Kharkiv periodicals and collections in the Russian and Ukrainian languages; the activity of such influential figures as H. Skovoroda, H. Kvitka-Osnovianenko, P.Hulak-Artemovskyi, I. Sreznevskyi, M. Kostomarov, O. Potebnia, etc.; contradictory and dramatic literary life in Kharkiv of the national cultural Renaissance epoch in the 1920s and early 1930s (‘Executed Renaissance’) and during the subsequent periods. The ‘Donbas segment’ of the eastern ethnocultural frontier, with its history being much shorter than the Kharkiv one though also abundant with contradictions, is considered in the synchronic aspect, in comparative contrast of the diferent writers’ fates and creative phenomena, including the background of the modern dramatic situation in the region.

Kartki z dziejów igołomskiego powiśla

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pottery Production ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
North East ◽  
Vistula River ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Historical Queries

„Cards from the history of Igołomia region on the Vistula River” is a monumental, richly illustrated collective work devoted to the history of a patch of Małopolska (Lesser Poland; S Poland) located north-east of Kraków, in the Western Lesser Poland Loess Upland. This area is known to archaeologists for years as a kind of Eldorado, inhabited by subsequent human groups, ranging from Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, through the shepherds of the Corded Ware culture, to the creators of the Igołomia-Zofipole wheel-trown pottery production center in the late Roman period. It played a significant role also in historical times, thanks to its location in the foreground of the capital of Małopolska. The monograph edited by Dr. Krzysztof Tunia, an archaeologist who has devoted most of his professional career to researching this region, reflects the current state of research on the prehistory and history of this part of the Vistula river. The advantage of the publication is the fact that the individual chapters come „first hand”: from the researchers who have conducted excavations, historical queries or anthropological studies here, and today synthesize their results in a form accessible to a wide audience. The reading is accompanied by the thought of longue durée – it is inevitable, in fact, when in one book one reads about the subsistence strategies of the first farmers from the 6th millennium BC, the innovations of their Slavic successors from the 6th century AD, the bias of local peasants toward the January Uprising or the attitude of the rural population in the face of the atrocities of the Holocaust…

scholarly journals Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations: Radio Frequency Interference Measurements and Telescope Site Selection

2019 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
pp. 1940005 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. W. Peel ◽  
C. A. Wuensche ◽  
E. Abdalla ◽  
S. Antón ◽  
L. Barosi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Radio Frequency Interference ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
North East ◽  
Neutral Gas ◽  
Suitable Site ◽  
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Interference Measurements ◽  
A Site ◽  
Remote Part

The Baryon acoustic oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations (BINGO) telescope is a new 40[Formula: see text]m class radio telescope to measure the large-angular-scale intensity of H i emission at 980–1260[Formula: see text]MHz to constrain dark energy parameters. As it needs to measure faint cosmological signals at the milliKelvin level, it requires a site that has very low radio frequency interference (RFI) at frequencies around 1[Formula: see text]GHz. We report on measurement campaigns across Uruguay and Brazil to find a suitable site, which looked at the strength of the mobile phone signals and other radio transmissions, the location of wind turbines, and also included mapping airplane flight paths. The site chosen for the BINGO telescope is a valley at Serra do Urubu, a remote part of Paraíba in North-East Brazil, which has sheltering terrain. During our measurements with a portable receiver, we did not detect any RFI in or near the BINGO band, given the sensitivity of the equipment. A radio quiet zone around the selected site has been requested from the Brazilian authorities ahead of the telescope construction.

Pottery Production in Mycenaean Laconia: NAA Results from the Palace of Ayios Vasileios

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anno Hein ◽  
Reinhard Jung ◽  
Eleftheria Kardamaki ◽  
Vassilis Kilikoglou
Keyword(s):  
Neutron Activation Analysis ◽  
Activation Analysis ◽  
Neutron Activation ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Regional Production ◽  
Compositional Pattern ◽  
Diachronic Analysis

Abstract This paper deals with the provenance of Mycenaean pottery found in the palace of Ayios Vasileios in Laconia. It focusses on painted and plain fine wares and reports the results of neutron activation analysis (NAA). The analyzed ceramics cover all of the habitation phases of the palace as well as the short, post-palatial use of the site, i. e. LH IIB to LH IIIC Early 1 (ca. 1450–1180 BCE). A large part of these fine ware pots represents a compositional pattern, which probably relates to local or regional production during the palatial periods LH IIIA and IIIB. Very similar patterns are known from other sites in the Eurotas valley as well as on the southeastern Laconian coast. The diachronic analysis shows that a reduction of paste variability towards the use of a more homogeneous clay recipe occurred after LH II, i. e. approximately contemporaneously with the establishment of the palace at Ayios Vasileios. Relatively few samples of the painted fine wares are imports and can be assigned to the wider region of Mycenae. Interestingly, these imports are restricted to the earlier phases up to LH IIB/IIIA1.

scholarly journals Neolithic pottery at Polgar-10 (Hungary): measuring the habitus

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 127-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Copper Age ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
North East ◽  
Pottery Analysis ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

It is self-evidently true that ceramics form the largest component of the artefact assemblages of the Neolithic and Copper Age of Central and Eastern Europe, yet we are still poorly informed about the final stage of the life of most vessels – their ultimate disposal. In this paper, I wish to consider the ways in which pottery can be studied with respect to disposal and deposition. An assessment of ten different kinds of pottery analysis is made, using site single contexts as the main unit of analysis. I propose that these analyses constitute ways of measuring Bourdieu’s term “habitus”. This contextual analysis is based on examples taken from the Neolithic settlement of Polgar-10, in North East Hungary, excavated by the Upper Tisza Project in 1994.

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