scholarly journals The presence of supposedly primitive human tools along the upper reaches of the Kizil Irmak in Anatolia

1965 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-87
Author(s):  
D. P. Erdbrink ◽  
H. R. Van Heekeren
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Red River ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The One ◽  
Terrace Level ◽  
Different Levels

Abstract. The first indications of the existence of fluviatile terraces in E. Anatolia were reported recently by Izbirak (1962) and Ketin (1962). The present authors have made a rapid and superficial exploration of a terrace system containing a maximum of five to seven different levels along the upper reaches of the great Kizil Irmak or Red River between Sivas and Kayseri in E. Anatolia. This region partly overlaps, but lies mostly to the North of the region described by Izbirak. It appears that the terrace levels are fairly constant along the mentioned stretch of the river. They disappear suddenly farther downstream. With Izbirak the present authors are of opinion that the formation of these terraces is probably due to tectonic activities in the first place and only secondarily to climatic influences. One terrace level, the third (counting from the lowest level) consistently contained a very limited number of what the authors suppose to be primitive artefacts, among which there are some pebble-tools. These are described in the paper; they may indicate the presence of hominids in Turkey during the earliest part of the Pleistocene. In one case a fossil molar of a Hipparion was found in this third level in situ, partly covered by the same petrified red loam which also enveloped some of the supposed artefacts. No exact dating of the terraces is as yet possible, but it may be inferred that the oldest and highest ones are Tertiary, the one containing the artefacts perhaps lowermost Pleistocene, and the lowest ones young Pleistocene or even Holocene. Some time ago Izbirak (1962) published a geomorphological study of part of the region along the upper reaches of the Kizil Irmak in Turkey. Without being aware of the results of this study, the present authors made some observations in almost the same area. Although of a different nature these coincide very well with Izbirak's conclusions. Thanks to a grant-in-aid assigned to one of us by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research at New York, the voyage, and the collecting of material in Turkey, was made possible. We would like to thank the authorities of this Foundation for the rendering of this financial aid; the authorities of the Netherlands Embassy at Ankara, and Professor A. A. Cense at Istanbul, should receive our thanks and gratitude for the aid and advice given us during our stay The region visited by us was part of the upper valley of the Kizil Irmak, the Halys river of ancient times, lying between the cities of Sivas and Kayseri. Our observations began immediately downstream from Sivas at both sides of the river over a continuous stretch of approximately 20 kilometres. Lower downstream a number of traverses at right angles to the river valley's axis was made.

Global Governance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Domínguez ◽  
Rafael Velázquez Flores
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
The Third ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Multiple Actors

The goal of this article is to provide an overview of the literature on global governance, key elements for understanding its conceptualization, and a gateway to capture its multidimensionality. From this perspective, global governance is conceived as a framework of analysis or intellectual device to study the complexity of global processes involving multiple actors that interact at different levels of interest aggregation. The article is divided into four parts. The first section describes the origins, definitions, and characteristics of global governance. The second categorizes global governance based on different thematic areas where there is a confluence of governance practices, on the one hand, and the inclusion of a global level of interaction, on the other. The third discusses the different conceptual inquiries and innovations that have been developed around the term. Finally, the last part maps the different academic institutions that have focused their research on global governance and offer programs on this subject.

COLEOPTERA OF THE NORTH SHORE OF THE GULF OF THE ST. LAWRENCE

1930 ◽  
Vol 62 (11) ◽  
pp. 239-246
Author(s):  
W. J. Brown
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
North Shore ◽  
The North ◽  
Basal Margin ◽  
The One

Length 2.3-2.4 mm. ; width 1.1 mm. Elongate, suboval, moderately convex, fulvo-pubescent. Piceous with distinct aeneous lustre; each elytron with two yellow spots; the one as long as wide, including hunerus and basal margin and extending inwardly to the third interval; the other elongate oval and slightly oblique, extending from apical third to a point near apex.

Why Anthropology Doesn’t Matter Much to Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Michael G. Peletz
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
New York University ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Departure

Jeremy Kingsley and Kari Telle’s provocation article raises several important issues. The thrust of their argument as I understand it is that anthropology does not matter much to the field of law in many parts of the world. They are quick to point out, however, that this is a relative point and that their comparative frame takes as its point of departure the much greater degree of intellectual engagement that obtains between schools of medicine and public health on the one hand and the field of anthropology on the other. I concur with their overall argument but will phrase it in slightly different terms: despite the robust collaborations that sometimes involve legal scholars and anthropologists (e.g. in legal clinics at New York University and elsewhere; see Merry, this issue), faculty in law schools are much less likely to embrace the work of anthropologists than are their colleagues who specialise in medicine and public health. In this brief comment, I offer tentative hypotheses as to why this situation exists in the North American context. I approach the relevant issues from a historical perspective, focusing on hierarchies of legitimacy and prestige, shifts in both academia and the job market for anthropologists, and the rise of neoliberal doctrines in academia and beyond.

scholarly journals Locally Supported Orthogonal Wavelet Bases on the Sphere via Stereographic Projection

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Roşca ◽  
Jean-Pierre Antoine
Keyword(s):  
Stereographic Projection ◽  
Tangent Plane ◽  
Continuous Wavelet ◽  
Orthogonal Wavelet ◽  
Wavelet Bases ◽  
Singularity Detection ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
Local Support ◽  
The One

The stereographic projection determines a bijection between the two-sphere, minus the North Pole, and the tangent plane at the South Pole. This correspondence induces a unitary map between the correspondingL2spaces. This map in turn leads to equivalence between the continuous wavelet transform formalisms on the plane and on the sphere. More precisely, any plane wavelet may be lifted, by inverse stereographic projection, to a wavelet on the sphere. In this work we apply this procedure to orthogonal compactly supported wavelet bases in the plane, and we get continuous, locally supported orthogonal wavelet bases on the sphere. As applications, we give three examples. In the first two examples, we perform a singularity detection, including one where other existing constructions of spherical wavelet bases fail. In the third example, we show the importance of the local support, by comparing our construction with the one based on kernels of spherical harmonics.

A Letter of Gordian III from Aphrodisias in Caria

1969 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 56-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenan T. Erim ◽  
Joyce Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
New York University ◽  
Southeastern Part ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
The Face ◽  
The City

During the 1965 and 1966 campaigns of excavation at Aphrodisias in Caria, conducted under the aegis of New York University, investigations of the large Theatre of the city were initiated. The Theatre lies mostly buried along the eastern slope of the ‘acropolis’, a conical hillock in the southeastern part of the site. Dr. Elisabeth Alföldi-Rosenbaum supervised four initial trenches and soundings (Theatre I to IV) excavated on the north side of the building, which revealed the proscenium, the adjacent lowest tiers of seats, the north parodos and the analemma. In August, 1966, two adjoining pieces of a large block of coarse-grained local marble inscribed with a letter from Gordian III were discovered. The lower piece of the inscription was found built into the analemma, facing the north parodos at a height slightly above eye-level. The upper fragment came to light on the parodos floor and was removed to the surface and photographed by Dr. E. Alföldi. Progress in the excavation of the parodos in 1967 and 1968 allowed careful inspection of the lower portion which remains in situ. The two fragments (inv. nos. 66–608 A and B) are well-preserved and constitute virtually the whole block, although some damage is evident on the upper left-hand corner of the face and along the break. The total measurements are 1·53 m. × 0·72 m. × 0·72 m. It cannot be entirely excluded that the block may have been reused in the analemma wall since there is some evidence of repairs in this area. The letters average 0·025 m. in height and are cut in a style typical of the later second and third centuries A.D. at Aphrodisias; particularly characteristic is the form of B, see Pl. I.

scholarly journals The Aśokan Empire

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
William J. Long
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Political Pluralism ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Case ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The One

AbstractThis chapter introduces the first case study that serves as empirical referent for a Buddhist approach to statecraft in ancient times by considering the early kingdom of Aśoka. This chapter and the one that follows offer “proofs of concept” for the possibility of applying Buddhist ideas in the practice of politics and statecraft. Aśoka governed according to the dharma, meaning principles and policies that reflect Buddha’s teachings, although Aśoka expressed his principles and policies in edicts written in nonreligious, nonexclusive language. Aśoka’s rule was characterized by the promotion of nonviolence; social welfare; environmental protection; religious tolerance; political pluralism; the fair and compassionate administration of justice; and sound and responsive public administration meaning transparency, accessibility, impartiality, and accountability. His foreign policy was founded on principles of nonviolence, nonaggression, conciliation, stability, and improved understanding among international actors through diplomacy and mutually beneficial commerce. Aśoka even practiced the exercise of “soft power” by establishing medical facilities in foreign lands, sharing beneficial plants, and installing infrastructure beyond his immediate borders as acts of goodwill toward neighboring countries. While these governing principles and policies may be commonplace today, Aśoka, it should be remembered, governed in Asia in the third century B.C.E.

Excavations at Çatal Hüyük, 1963: Third Preliminary Report

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 39-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mellaart
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum ◽  
The Third ◽  
Australian Institute ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

The third season of excavations at Çatal Hüyük lasted from 10th June until 30th August, 1963, seventy working days with an average of thirty-five men, some local but most from the Beycesultan area, under our foreman, Veli Karaaslan, and our trusted ustas, Rifat Çelimli, Mustafa Duman, and Bekir Kalayci.The 1963 season received financial support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York, the Bollingen Foundation, New York, the Munroe Fund of the University of Edinburgh, The British Academy, the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, the Australian Institute of Archaeology, the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London, an anonymous donation, and Unilever, Istanbul, and transport and survey equipment from BP Aegean, Ltd., Istanbul.

2. On the Destructive Effects of the Waves of the Sea on the North-East Shores of Shetland

1862 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 200-201
Author(s):  
Thomas Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The One ◽  
The Waves

The author stated, that the present communication might be regarded as supplementary to the one describing the results of his marine dynamometer, which would be found in the 14th volume of the “Transactions.” On the Bound Skerry of Whalsey, which is only exposed to the waves of the North Sea or German Ocean, he had found, on first landing in 1852, masses of rock, weighing 9½ tons and under, heaped together by the action of the waves at the level of no less than 62 feet above the sea; and others, ranging from 6 to 13½ tons, were found to have been quarried out of their positions in situ, at levels of from 70 to 74 feet above the sea.

Metamorphic evolution of Palaeoproterozoic anatectic migmatites in the eastern part of the Aravalli–Delhi Fold Belt, India: constraints from thermodynamic modelling and monazite dating

2017 ◽  
Vol 155 (4) ◽  
pp. 955-978 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. PRAKASH ◽  
L. SAHA ◽  
I. PETRIK ◽  
M. JANAK ◽  
A. BHATTACHARYA
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analyses ◽  
Fold Belt ◽  
Monazite Dating ◽  
The North ◽  
Facies Metamorphism ◽  
Aravalli Supergroup ◽  
Type Granite ◽  
Granite Magmatism ◽  
The One

AbstractGarnetiferous pelitic to psammopelitic migmatites widespread across the central and eastern part of the Aravalli–Delhi Fold Belt in NW India record two distinct orogenies, e.g. the Aravalli Orogeny (1.7–1.6 Ga) and the Delhi Orogeny (1.0 Ga). In this study, we integrate field geological studies with textural and mineral–chemical analyses,P–Tpseudosection modelling andin situmonazite dating in anatectic migmatites in the Aravalli Supergroup occurring along the Deoli–Shahpura segment. The study reveals formation of peak assemblages of garnet + sillimanite + biotite + K-feldspar + melt and garnet + muscovite + K-feldspar + melt in two anatectic migmatite samples.P–Tpseudosection modelling suggests that anatexis in the gneisses occurred at ~8 kbar and 700–800°C along a tight-loop clockwiseP–Tpath. Monazite ages from the migmatites indicate that the anatexis occurred at ~1.73–1.74 Ga. This age is similar to the Palaeoproterozoic anatexis (at 7–8 kbar) and charnockite emplacement in the Sandmata and the Mangalwar complexes, the subsolidus amphibolite-facies metamorphism in the Rajpura–Dariba and Pur–Banera supracrustal belts, and the A-type granite magmatism in the North Delhi Fold Belt. We propose that the Palaeoproterozoic migmatites in central and eastern Rajasthan are part of the one crustal unit that underwent anatexis during an accretion event along the NE–SW-trending Aravalli orogenic belt.

scholarly journals In situ measurements of aerosol optical properties and number size distributions in a coastal region of Norway during the summer of 2008

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5841-5857 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mogo ◽  
V. E. Cachorro ◽  
J. F. Lopez ◽  
E. Montilla ◽  
B. Torres ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Arctic ◽  
Size Distributions ◽  
Aerosol Optical Properties ◽  
Air Mass ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Air Masses ◽  
The North ◽  
Microphysical Parameters ◽  
The One

Abstract. In situ measurements of aerosol optical properties and particle size distributions were made in the summer of 2008 at the ALOMAR station facility (69°16' N, 16°00' E), located in a rural site in the north of the island of Andøya (Vesterålen archipelago), approximately 300 km north of the Arctic Circle. The extended three-month campaign was part of the POLARCAT Project (Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models, of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport) of the International Polar Year (IPY-2007-2008). Our goal was to characterize the aerosols of this sub-Arctic area, which are frequently transported to the Arctic region. Data from 13 June to 26 August 2008 were available and the statistical data for all instruments were calculated based on the hourly averages. The overall data coverage was approximately 72%. The hourly mean values of the light-scattering coefficient, σs, and the light-absorption coefficient, σa, at 550 nm were 5.41 Mm−1 (StD = 3.55 Mm−1) and 0.40 Mm−1 (StD = 0.27 Mm−1), respectively. The scattering/absorption Ångström exponents, αs,a, were used in a detailed analysis of the variations of the spectral shape of σs,a. While αs indicates the presence of two particle sizes corresponding to two types of aerosols, αa indicates only one type of absorbing aerosol particle. αa values greater than 1 were not observed. The single-scattering albedo, ω0, ranged from 0.62 to 0.99 (mean = 0.91, StD = 0.05), and the relationships between this parameter and the absorption/scattering coefficients and the Ångström exponents are presented. Any absorption value may lead to the lowest values of ω0, whereas only the lowest scattering values were observed in the lowest range of ω0. For a given absorption value, lower ω0 were observed for smaller αs. The submicrometer, micrometer and total concentrations of the particles presented hourly mean values of 1277 cm−3 (StD = 1563 cm−3), 1 cm−3 (StD = 1 cm−3) and 2463 cm−3 (StD = 4251 cm−3), respectively, and the modal correlations were also investigated. The optical and microphysical parameters, as well as their relationship with each other, are reported. σs correlated strongly with the number concentration of accumulation mode particles and more strongly with the micrometer fraction of particles, but weak correlations were observed for the Aitken and nucleation modes. The origins and pathways of the air masses were examined, and based on sector classification, a relationship between the air mass origin, the optical parameters and the size distributions was established. The low values of the optical and microphysical parameters indicate that the predominant regional aerosol is mostly clean and the shape of the size distribution is characterized by bimodal median size distributions. However, the relationships between the air mass origins and the parameters studied allow us to describe two characteristic situations: the one of the northern and western air masses, which were predominantly composed of marine aerosols and presented the lowest optical and microphysical values observed, indicating predominantly non-absorbent and coarser particles; and the one of the eastern and southern air masses, in which continental aerosols were predominant and exhibited higher values for all parameters, indicating the presence of smaller absorbent particles. The north-northeastern air masses presented the strongest Aitken mode, indicating more recently formed particles, and the southeastern air masses presented the strongest accumulation mode (however, the southeastern air masses were the least common, accounting for only 3% of occurrences).

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