scholarly journals Luminescence Dating of the Sediments from a Buried Channel Loop in Fatehabad Area, Haryana: Insight into Vedic Saraswati River and its Environment

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (-1) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Saini ◽  
S. Mujtaba
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Osl Dating ◽  
Luminescence Dating ◽  
Sediment Composition ◽  
Buried Channel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
Reduced Water ◽  
Insight Into

Luminescence Dating of the Sediments from a Buried Channel Loop in Fatehabad Area, Haryana: Insight into Vedic Saraswati River and its Environment Geomorphology and sedimentary composition of an archeologically important palaeochannel segment of the Vedic Saraswati River in northwestern Haryana have been evaluated and its temporal relation with the surrounding upland examined with the help of OSL dating. Sediment composition and OSL ages suggest that the channel received enough water supply between 5.9 and 4.3 ka ago, and even before. Several lakes and ponds had developed during this period in the surrounding areas. It was a wet phase in this area as well as in Rajastahn. After ~4.3 ka, the river got starved of regular water supply, became sluggish and finally dried up. Reduced water supply, indicative of decreased rainfall, occurred between 4.3 and 3.4 ka ago. The environmental history of the channel might have influenced the Harrapan archeology of the area.

Introduction: Missionary Encounters in the Atlantic World

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Gerbner ◽  
Karin Vélez
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Labor History ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

Missionaries were often the most prolific writers on non-European peoples and cultures in the early modern Atlantic world. As a result, their sources have proven to be indispensable for early modernists. For decades, historians have explored missionary encounters and the sources they inspired to gain insight into a wide variety of topics including native history, the history of religion, labor history, environmental history, the history of the African diaspora, and the history of capitalism. While missionary sources are used widely, most scholarship on the encounters themselves focuses on either a particular denomination or a particular region. Rarely is the surprisingly cohesive barrier between Protestant and Catholic missions breached within single volumes or monographs. This special issue seeks to break down these divides. By making inter-denominational and inter-imperial connections, this volume asks new questions about the meaning of missionary encounters in the early modern world.

Environmental History of Water - Global views on community water supply and sanitation

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (0) ◽  
pp. 9781780402277-9781780402277 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Juuti ◽  
T. Katko ◽  
H. Vuorinen
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Community Water ◽  
History Of ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

High-resolution insight into the Holocene environmental history of the Burullus Lagoon in northern Nile delta, Egypt

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Leszek Marks ◽  
Fabian Welc ◽  
Barbara Woronko ◽  
Jarmilla Krzymińska ◽  
Anna Rogóż-Matyszczak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Salt Marshes ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Nile Delta ◽  
Sand Dunes ◽  
Dry Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lower Water Level ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Middle And Late Holocene

Abstract The modern Nile delta developed in the Middle and Late Holocene, and at its most northern-central point is situated at the Burullus Lagoon, which is environmentally diverse, including salt marshes, mudflats, and sand plains, and separated from a sea by a sand barrier overtopped with high sand dunes. The lagoon has been fed since the Middle Holocene by the Sebennitic branch of the Nile and marine intrusions through the Bughaz inlet. A sediment core (BO-1) was collected at the northeastern shore of the lagoon and sampled at centennial scale resolution in order to reconstruct the development of the lagoon. The results show that an initial and limited lagoon had developed at the end of the Early Holocene, but after a dry period ca. 7.2 cal ka BP it has been progressively transformed into a marshy area, with occasional inflows of sea water. Lower water level and higher salinity of the Burullus Lagoon at 6.0–5.5 and 4.8–4.2 cal ka BP reflected droughts in the Nile catchment. Thereafter, the river reactivated in the Burullus Lagoon area, and since 2.8 cal ka BP was accompanied by occasional inflows of sea water. Since ca. 0.8 cal ka BP, increased fluvial activity occurred in this part of the Nile delta, which terminated after construction of the Aswan dams in the twentieth century.

Diary of a bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus): daily δ13C and δ18O records in otoliths by ion microprobe

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (12) ◽  
pp. 1641-1645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian C Weidel ◽  
Takayuki Ushikubo ◽  
Stephen R Carpenter ◽  
Noriko T Kita ◽  
Jonathan J Cole ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Dissolved Inorganic Carbon ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Lepomis Macrochirus ◽  
Ion Microprobe ◽  
Otolith Growth ◽  
Daily Increments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Δ13c And Δ18o

Otoliths provide information about an individual fish’s environment at ecologically relevant time scales. We used ion microprobe analysis to produce high-resolution δ13C and δ18O time series from two age-4 bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) otoliths, which provided insight into fish behavior and otolith fractionation processes. Scanning electron microscope images revealed δ13C and δ18O pit diameters of 10 and 15 µm, respectively, corresponding to 1–5 and 2–9 daily increments during rapid otolith growth and 6–9 and 12–25 increments near annual otolith growth checks. Spot-to-spot reproducibility (1 SD) of the calcite standards was <0.2‰ for δ18O and <0.4‰ for δ13C and was small enough to resolve a change in a fish’s ambient temperature of approximately 1 °C. A whole-lake 13C addition experiment elevated the δ13C of the lake’s dissolved inorganic carbon for 56 days during the summer of 2005. Mixing model results indicated that the proportion of dietary carbon in otoliths (M) was similar for both fish (BLG-3, M = 0.45; BLG-12, M = 0.35), but the relation between M and proxies of metabolic rate differed between fish. Otolith stable isotope analysis by ion microprobe can reveal the environmental history of an individual fish and contribute to our understanding of processes that influence isotope ratio fractionation in otoliths.

Luminescence dating of fluvial and coastal red sediments in the SE Coast, India, and implications for paleoenvironmental changes and dune reddening

2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 468-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Jayangondaperumal ◽  
M.K. Murari ◽  
P. Sivasubramanian ◽  
N. Chandrasekar ◽  
A.K. Singhvi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Coastal Dunes ◽  
Optically Stimulated Luminescence ◽  
Silty Sand ◽  
Luminescence Dating ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Deposition

The Holocene and late Pleistocene environmental history of the teri ('sandy waste' in local parlance) red sands in the southeast coastal Tamil Nadu was examined using remote sensing, stratigraphy, and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating. Geomorphological surveys enabled the classification of the teri red sands as, 1) inland fluvial teri, 2) coastal teri and 3) near-coastal teri dunes. The inland teri sediments have higher clay and silty-sand component than the coastal and near-coastal teri, suggesting that these sediments were deposited by the fluvial process during a stronger winter monsoon around ≫ 15 ka. The coastal teri dunes were deposited prior to 11.4 ± 0.9 ka, and the near-coastal dunes aggraded at around 5.6 ± 0.4 ka. We; interpret that the coastal dunes were formed during a period of lower relative sea level and the near-coastal dunes formed during a period of higher sea level. Dune reddening is post deposition occurred after 11.4 ± 0.9 ka for the coastal teri dunes and after 5.6 ± 0.4 ka for the near-coastal teri dunes. Presence of microlithic sites associated with the coastal dunes suggest that the cultures existed in the region during 11.4 ± 0.9 ka and 5.6 ± 0.4 ka.

The Subaltern Speak- A Study On The Culture Of The Arunachalis With Special Reference To Mamang Dai’s The Legends Of Pensam

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Ms. Cheryl Antonette Dumenil ◽  
Dr. Cheryl Davis
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Small World ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Arunachal Pradesh ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East ◽  
Shared History ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Insight Into

North- East India is an under veiled region with an awe-inspiring landscape, different groups of ethnic people, their culture and heritage. Contemporary writers from this region aspire towards a vision outside the tapered ethnic channel, and they represent a shared history. In their writings, the cultural memory is showcased, and the intensity of feeling overflows the labour of technique and craft. Mamang Dai presents a rare glimpse into the ecology, culture, life of the tribal people and history of the land of the dawn-lit mountains, Arunachal Pradesh, through her novel The Legends of Pensam. The word ‘Pensam’ in the title means ‘in-between’,  but it may also be interpreted as ‘the hidden spaces of the heart’. This is a small world where anything can happen. Being adherents of the animistic faith, the tribes here believe in co-existence with the natural world along with the presence of spirits in their forests and rivers. This paper attempts to draw an insight into the culture and gender of the Arunachalis with special reference to The Legends of Pensam by Mamang Dai.

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