North-East of Asia as the temperature hyperzone and its alteration over the past 60 years. Communication 1. Temperature regime of a warm season in the North-East of Asia

The article is devoted to ideas about the Soviet era, widespread in а village in the north-east of Crimea. The paper offers an analysis of how the community, formed around a partially preserved state farm, builds its own picture of historical time, expands the imaginary boundaries of the Soviet period, and also thinks of it not so much as the past, but as the past future. Particular attention is paid to the object that organizes its temporality — а time capsule, which was laid twice in the studied village (in 1967 and in 2017), as well as its connection with the teleology of modernism. The article compares letters to descendants, sealed in two time capsules, as well as additional documents sent to the future. The text of the 1967 letter is based on a progressive narrative and contains a list of economic indicators of the success of the Soviet economy. By contrast, the 2017 text creates a picture of an unstable time of change, in which the focus is not on the predictable future, but on the vague past and present. The author of the article explains the nostalgia for the Soviet era in the studied community by the reaction to the changes and crises of the post-Soviet period, and suggests using temporal logic in the research of post-socialism.

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Holocene Climatic Variations Inferred from Treeline Fluctuations in the White Mountains, California

Quaternary Research ◽

10.1016/0033-5894(73)90035-5 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 632-660 ◽

Cited By ~ 156

Author(s):

Valmore C. LaMarche

Keyword(s):

Great Basin ◽

Warm Season ◽

White Mountains ◽

North American Cordillera ◽

Climatic Variations ◽

The Past ◽

The North ◽

Pinus Longaeva ◽

Bristlecone Pine ◽

Dry Conditions

AbstractRemains of dead bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva Bailey) are found at altitudes up to 150 m above present treeline in the White Mountains. Standing snags and remnants in two study areas were mapped and sampled for dating by tree-ring and radiocarbon methods. The oldest remnants represent trees established more than 7400 y.a. Experimental and empirical evidence indicates that the position of the treeline is closely related to warm-season temperatures, but that precipitation may also be important in at least one of the areas. The upper treeline was at high levels in both areas until after about 2200 B.C., indicating warm-season temperatures about 3.5°F higher than those of the past few hundred years. However, the record is incomplete, relative warmth may have been maintained until at least 1500 B.C. Cooler and wetter conditions are indicated for the period 1500 B.C.-500 B.C., followed by a period of cool but drier climate. A major treeline decline occurred between about A.D. 1100 and A.D. 1500, probably reflecting onset of cold and dry conditions. High reproduction rates and establishment of scattered seedlings at high altitudes within the past 100 yr represents an incipient treeline advance, which reflected a general climatic warming beginning in the mid-19th century that has lasted until recent decades in the western United States. This evidence for climatic variation is broadly consistent with the record of Neoglacial advances in the North American Cordillera, and supports Antevs' concept of a warm “altithermal age” in the Great Basin.

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Late Holocene temperature variability in Tasmania inferred from borehole temperature data

Climate of the Past ◽

10.5194/cp-13-559-2017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 559-572 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Asadusjjaman Suman ◽

Fiona Dyer ◽

Duanne White

Keyword(s):

East Coast ◽

Past Century ◽

Borehole Data ◽

Depth Profiles ◽

The Past ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

Borehole Temperature ◽

Temperature Depth

Abstract. Thirty-six borehole temperature–depth profiles were analysed to reconstruct the ground surface temperature history (GSTH) of eastern Tasmania for the past 5 centuries. We used the singular value decomposition method to invert borehole temperatures to produce temperature histories. The quality of borehole data was classified as high or low based on model misfit. The quality of the borehole data was not dependent on topography or land use. Analysis reveals that three to five high-quality borehole temperature–depth profiles were adequate to reconstruct robust paleotemperature records from any area. Average GSTH reconstructed from Tasmanian boreholes shows temperature increases about 1.2 ± 0.2 °C during the past 5 centuries. Reconstructed temperatures were consistent with meteorological records and other proxy records from Tasmania during their period of overlap. Temperature changes were greatest around the north-east coast and decreased towards the centre of Tasmania. The extension of the East Australian Current (EAC) further south and its strengthening around the north-east coast of Tasmania over the past century was considered a prime driver of warmer temperatures observed in north-east Tasmania.

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ATOP THE KADMEIA: MYCENAEAN ROOF TILES FROM THEBES IN CONTEXT

The Annual of the British School at Athens ◽

10.1017/s006824542000009x ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 115 ◽

pp. 175-245

Author(s):

Vassilis L. Aravantinos ◽

Ioannis Fappas ◽

Yannis Galanakis

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Fourteenth Century ◽

Systematic Study ◽

Late Bronze Age ◽

Similar Material ◽

Widespread Distribution ◽

The Past ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

First Time

Questions were raised in the past regarding the use of Mycenaean tiles as ‘roof tiles’ on the basis of the small numbers of them recovered in excavations and their overall scarcity in Mycenaean domestic contexts. The investigation of the Theodorou plot in 2008 in the southern part of the Kadmeia hill at Thebes yielded the single and, so far, largest known assemblage per square metre of Mycenaean tiles from a well-documented excavation. This material allows, for the first time convincingly, to identify the existence of a Mycenaean tiled roof. This paper presents the results of our work on the Theodorou tiles, placing emphasis on their construction, form and modes of production, offering the most systematic study of Mycenaean tiles to date. It also revisits contexts of discovery of similar material from excavations across Thebes. Popular as tiles might have been in Boeotia, and despite their spatially widespread attestation, their use in Aegean Late Bronze Age architecture appears, on the whole, irregular with central Greece and the north-east Peloponnese being the regions with the most sites known to have yielded such objects. Mycenaean roof tiles date mostly from the mid- and late fourteenth century bc to the twelfth century bc. A study of their construction, form, production and contexts suggests that their role, apart from adding extra insulation, might have been one of signposting certain buildings in the landscape. We also present the idea that Mycenaean tile-making was guided by a particular conventional knowledge which was largely influenced by ceramic-related technologies (pottery- and drain-making). While production of roof tiles might have been palace-instigated to begin with, it does not appear to have been strictly controlled. This approach to Mycenaean tile-making may also help explain their uneven (in terms of intensity of use) yet widespread distribution.

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New Forms of Work and Employment in an `Old Industrial Region'? The Offshore Construction Industry in the North East of England

Work Employment and Society ◽

10.1177/095001709484003 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 531-552 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Andy Cumbers

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Construction Industry ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Evolutionary Process ◽

The Past ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

Local Labour ◽

New Forms Of Work ◽

Work And Employment

This paper examines the nature of the new forms of work and employment brought to the North East of England by the development of offshore construction activities, serving the North Sea's oil and gas industries in the period since the early 1970s. In particular, it assesses the extent to which these activities differ from traditional forms of work and employment organisation within the region. The results of this analysis suggest the need to interpret contemporary patterns of restructuring, both in a particular local labour market context and more generally, as part of an on-going evolutionary process, rather than as a decisive break (or shift) from the past.

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A hillfort complex in Myślibórz in the Sudety Mountains

Sprawozdania Archeologiczne ◽

10.23858/sa/72.2020.2.1733 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 72 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ewa Anna Lisowska ◽

Sylwia Rodak

Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

Warning System ◽

Spatial Arrangement ◽

Archaeological Sites ◽

Early Medieval ◽

The Past ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

Sudety Mountains ◽

Defensive Sites

The Myślibórz Gorge, located within the Kaczawy Foothills, is well-known to environmentalists and scholars studying the past. The investigations launched in the 1990s made it possible to determine the chronology of three of the archaeological sites in this area. In 2018, two hillforts – on the Kobylica and Golica hills – were investigated. Czech literature classifies such hillforts as the ostrožna-type. The excavations of these hillforts made it possible to establish to date them between the 9th and 10th centuries.The hillforts were located on hilltops with similar altitudes above the sea level, less than 200 m from each other. Such a spatial arrangement made it possible to control the gateway to the Myślibórz Gorge from the north-east. Reasons for developing a defensive system in the southern part of the gorge are obscure, as is the role that two other early medieval hillforts played in it. Was it simply a warning system, or rather part of a comprehensive network of defensive sites?

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Airsynoptical Conditions Which Had an Influence on Air Temperature Regime During Warm Season, in Northern Moldavia, in the Past 20 Years (1994–2013)

Present Environment and Sustainable Development ◽

10.1515/pesd-2016-0016 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 179-188

Author(s):

Nicolae Ilie ◽

Liviu Apostol ◽

Livia Mădălina Olaru

Keyword(s):

Air Temperature ◽

General Trend ◽

Warm Season ◽

Climate Risks ◽

The Past ◽

The North ◽

Synoptic Conditions ◽

Weather And Climate ◽

The Look

Abstract In the present work has been studied weather types that have characterized the North of Moldavia over the last 20 years and the role of synoptic conditions which stood behind them. In this study, we will show the role of airsynoptical conditions which give the look of the weather characterized during this period, a frequency of types of circulations to highlight a general trend, the induced effects on air temperature and in the weather and climate risks, that resulted (scattered thunderstorms phenomena associated with a high termic contrast, dryness, freezing phenomena, early, in the final of August and September and later, in April-May.

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PLENTY OF FISH IN THIS SEA: SIFTING THE PAST IN THE NORTHEASTERN ADRIATIC

Traditiones ◽

10.3986/traditio2020490302 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 17-34

Author(s):

Nataša Rogelja Caf ◽

Alenka Janko Spreizer ◽

Martina Bofulin

Keyword(s):

Fish Species ◽

The Past ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

Nodal Points

The paper discusses heritagization, remembering, and past presencing in the North East Adriatic through the four fish species that serve as nodal points in the interplay between the past and the present. Following the selected fish species, the paper explores the diversity of imaginaries that pertain to the mediation of the past in the present in the field of ethnological study in the North East Adriatic.

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Monopseudocuma a new genus from the North East Atlantic and redescription of Pseudocuma gilsoni Bacescu, 1950 (Cumacea: Pseudocumatidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1203.1.2 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 1203 (1) ◽

pp. 39

Author(s):

ALISON M. MCCARTHY ◽

SARAH GERKEN ◽

DAVID MCGRATH ◽

GRACE P. MCCORMACK

Keyword(s):

North Sea ◽

West Coast ◽

New Genus ◽

East Atlantic ◽

The West ◽

The Past ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

The North Sea

The validity of Pseudocuma gilsoni B|cescu 1950 has been questioned in the past. The recent discovery of material in Irish waters, and in the North Sea, confirms the presence of the species in the North East Atlantic and provides the opportunity to present a full redescription. A new genus, Monopseudocuma, is erected to accommodate the species. A neotype is designated from the West coast of Ireland.

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PECULIAR TEMPERATURE REGIME IN COLD FROZEN SOILS ALONG THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE CRYOLITHOZONE IN THE NORTH-EAST OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA

Dokuchaev Soil Bulletin ◽

10.19047/0136-1694-2014-75-48-62 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 48-62

Author(s):

D. A. Kaverin ◽

A. V. Pastukhov ◽

G. G. Mazhitova

Keyword(s):

Temperature Regime ◽

European Russia ◽

Frozen Soils ◽

Southern Boundary ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

Southern Tundra ◽

Temperature Indices ◽

Seasonal Thawing

Under study was the temperature regime of frozen soils situated along the southern boundary of cryolithozone in the North-East of European Russia. In southern tundra the frozen soils with the cold temperature regime are confined to peat and mineral parent materials. The seasonal and long-term temperature dynamics in seasonal-thawing and underlying permafrost-affected layer is shown. The frozen soils are characterized by the main temperature indices.

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