scholarly journals Animals from Motya: Depictions and Archaeological Evidence in the Phoenician Town in Sicily

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Francesca Oliveri ◽  
Maria Pamela Toti
Keyword(s):  
Human Population ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Preliminary Review ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
Great Attraction ◽  
Animal Presence

This paper focusses on the animal presence in the archaeological records from the Phoenician island town of Motya (Sicily), which grew to prosperity from its settlement in the 8th century until its destruction in 397 bce. Offering a preliminary review of this material, the paper discusses fantastic beasts, animals of the land, sea and air, creatures from Egyptian tradition and the faunal remains. As such, the overview will be more descriptive than analytic. While osteological evidence confirms the presence of domestic animals, such as poultry, pigs and pets, depictions on all sort of artifacts represent sphinxes and griffins, centaurs and sea-monsters, dolphins and every kind of fish, lions, bulls, horses, deer, pigs and dogs, and many kinds of birds from quails to eagles. Egyptian amulets express the great attraction felt towards the mysterious Nile valley. The great variety of animals attested in the iconography, and the various traditions in which they were depicted, are testament to the diversity of the town’s human population as well as their interactions with the wider Mediterranean world.

Diachronic trends in the evolution of civilizations in the Nile valley

2018 ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Элеонора Кормышева ◽  
Eleonora Kormysheva
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social History ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The Mediterranean

The diachronic trends in socio-economic and cultural development of the societies in the Nile valley are revealed based on the materials from Giza necropolis (the 3rd millennium BC) and the settlement of Abu Erteila (1st century AD). The research made it possible to trace the typological similarities in the evolution of the studied societies in cultural and historical contexts. The main fields of the research were epigraphy, iconography, social history, and material culture. Many previously unknown monuments discovered by Russian archaeologists in Egypt and Sudan were introduced into scientific discourse. The basis was created for studying the Nile valley as a contact zone between the Mediterranean world and Africa.

scholarly journals Deer Parks and Recreation. Zooarchaeological evidence form the Earls of Arundel Hunting Lodge in Downley (West Sussex, UK)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Nabais ◽  
Mark Roberts ◽  
Nicole Barber
Keyword(s):  
Body Part ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Fallow Deer ◽  
High Status ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Parks And Recreation ◽  
Considerable Evidence ◽  
Cattle And Sheep

The deer park at Downley is one of many medieval parks known from the county of Sussex (UK), 8km north of Chichester. The park belonged to the Earls of Arundel and there is evidence of its occasional use by high-status figures, such as King Henry VIII. The park perimeter measures 6.6km and covers an area of 261.7ha. During the first season of excavation in 2014 the presence of a substantial lodge building was proven within the pale, the features associated with the lodge contained various archaeological and environmental remains. This paper focuses on the study of zooarchaeological materials recovered from the 16 trenches opened in 2014. All faunal remains were studied, revealing domestic animals such as cattle and sheep, as well as wild animals such as deer and boar. Fallow deer is the most frequent species showing a very complete body part representation, suggesting it was hunted and processed locally. Further work is carried out looking at body part representation, which is particularly important when looking at the ritualised dismemberment of hunted animals. In any hunting milieu dogs/hounds are prevalent, and are represented by some anatomical elements, but also by considerable evidence of gnawing marks on bones that were clearly humanly processed before being fed to the animals.

scholarly journals Coronavirus: A Practicing Veterinarian Prospective

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-23
Author(s):  
Muhammad Mazhar Ayaz ◽  
Muhammad Mudasser Nazir ◽  
Muhammad Saleem Akhtar ◽  
Mubashir Aziz ◽  
Kamal Niaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Entire Population ◽  
Animal Population ◽  
Current Population

COVID19 is posing threat cosmopolitically encompassing more than 200 countries and making threat to entire population globally as pandemic. The cats, dogs and bovine are at threat which are close partner to human population. The veterinarians specially practicing are at risk when they encounter the sick animals. This study focus to the Pakistani veterinarian where animal population is under estimated or sometimes census is not performed. As Current population of domestic animals in Pakistan consist of 23.34 million buffaloes, 22.42 million cattle, 24.24 million sheep, 49.14 million goats, and with a huge population of dogs and cats without official census which may pose a threat to innocent population and even more a practicing veterinarian and veterinary paramedics are more at threat, if god forbids. There is need for further investigation its role and zoonotic perspective. Regarding practicing field veterinarians fighting without weapons against mass destructing pathogen and making vulnerability on wide.

scholarly journals Preliminary survey of domestic animals of the Sudan for precipitating antibodies to Rift Valley fever virus

1984 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Eisa
Keyword(s):  
Rift Valley ◽  
Rift Valley Fever ◽  
Rift Valley Fever Virus ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Preliminary Survey ◽  
Serum Samples ◽  
Valley Fever ◽  
The North ◽  
The Rich

SummaryIn a preliminary seroepidemiological survey a total of 780 serum samples derived from various domestic animals of the Sudan were examined for Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus precipitating antibodies. The incidence was approximately 34·3% in sheep, 33·2% in cattle, 22%in goats, 7·9% in camels and 4% in donkeys. The findings indicated that RVF is mainly prevalent in the rich savanna areas of the south as well as the irrigated areas close to the Nile in the north.Circumstantial evidence suggests that the detected antibodies were induced by a long-standing cryptically cycling infection and that resurgence of extensive epizootics is unlikely although limited outbreaks may occur. It is concluded that RVF virus circulates across the country in a south–north range along the Nile Valley with little or no extension to the drier lands to the east and west, and that ruminants are the primary species involved in virus maintenance. These species evidently serve as main amplifiers of infection during epizootics, but whether or not they also serve as sole virus reservoirs in inter-epizootic periods has yet to be determined.

“They Wandered in the Deserts and Mountains, and Caves and Holes in the Ground”

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-471
Author(s):  
Elisabeth R. O'Connell
Keyword(s):  
Flood Plain ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
The West ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Literary Representation

This contribution examines how models of exile were adopted and adapted in non-Chalcedonian communities following the establishment of a parallel Severan episcopal hierarchy under Archbishop Peter IV of Alexandria (576–577) and the consolidation of the Severan non-Chalcedonian church under his successor Damian (578–c. 607). Peter's predecessor Theodosius spent most of his long episcopacy (536–566) exiled in Constantinople, where he died, and Peter himself contended with three rivals to the patriarchate of Alexandria. Drawing on literary, documentary, and archaeological sources, I explore how the memory of non-Chalcedonian heroes was mobilized partly in order to validate the uncomfortable truth that members of the new network of bishops did not always live in their capitals, but in local monasteries, just as Peter and Damian did not live in Alexandria, but in the Enaton, nine miles to the west. After a brief survey of the role of exile in the Alexandrian Church, I concentrate on the literary representation of the appropriate places for exile in monastic literature, in particular the identification of the “deserts” and “mountains,” “caves” and “holes” of the wandering Hebrews (Heb 11.38) with the monastic landscape of Egypt in the late sixth and early seventh centuries. At this time, monastic habitation of natural caves, gallery quarries, and rock-cut tombs on the desert escarpment above the Nile Valley flood plain flourished. Finally, I survey the archaeological evidence of one region where bishops appointed by Damian settled, and how they put their models of exile into practice.

scholarly journals Deer Parks and Recreation. Zooarchaeological evidence form the Earls of Arundel Hunting Lodge in Downley (West Sussex, UK)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Nabais ◽  
Mark Roberts ◽  
Nicole Barber
Keyword(s):  
Body Part ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Fallow Deer ◽  
High Status ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Parks And Recreation ◽  
Considerable Evidence ◽  
Cattle And Sheep

The deer park at Downley is one of many medieval parks known from the county of Sussex (UK), 8km north of Chichester. The park belonged to the Earls of Arundel and there is evidence of its occasional use by high-status figures, such as King Henry VIII. The park perimeter measures 6.6km and covers an area of 261.7ha. During the first season of excavation in 2014 the presence of a substantial lodge building was proven within the pale, the features associated with the lodge contained various archaeological and environmental remains. This paper focuses on the study of zooarchaeological materials recovered from the 16 trenches opened in 2014. All faunal remains were studied, revealing domestic animals such as cattle and sheep, as well as wild animals such as deer and boar. Fallow deer is the most frequent species showing a very complete body part representation, suggesting it was hunted and processed locally. Further work is carried out looking at body part representation, which is particularly important when looking at the ritualised dismemberment of hunted animals. In any hunting milieu dogs/hounds are prevalent, and are represented by some anatomical elements, but also by considerable evidence of gnawing marks on bones that were clearly humanly processed before being fed to the animals.

scholarly journals COMPUTER VISION FOR COVID-19 CONTROL: A SURVEY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anwaar Ulhaq ◽  
Asim Khan ◽  
Douglas Pinto Sampaio Gomes ◽  
Manoranjan Paul
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Preliminary Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Survey Paper ◽  
Recent Success ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Research Resources

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an urgent need to contribute to the fight against an immense threat to the human population. Computer Vision, as a subfield of Artificial Intelligence, has enjoyed recent success in solvingvarious complex problems in health care and has the potential to contribute to the fight of controlling COVID-19. In response to this call, computer vision researchers are putting their knowledge base at work to devise effective ways to counter COVID-19 challenge and serve the global community. New contributions are being shared with everypassing day. It motivated us to review the recent work, collect information about available research resources and an indication of future research directions. We want to make it available to computer vision researchers to save precious time. This survey paper is intended to provide a preliminary review of the available literature on the computer vision efforts against COVID-19 pandemic.

Holocene resource exploitation along the Nile: diet and subsistence strategies of Mesolithic and Neolithic societies at Khor Shambat 1, Sudan

Antiquity ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Julie Dunne ◽  
Maciej Jórdeczka ◽  
Marek Chłodnicki ◽  
Karen Hardy ◽  
Lucy Kubiak-Martens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Residue Analysis ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Resource Exploitation ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Subsistence Strategies ◽  
Central Sudan ◽  
First Time ◽  
Human Subsistence

The subsistence practices of Holocene communities living in the Nile Valley of Central Sudan are comparatively little known. Recent excavations at Khor Shambat, Sudan, have yielded well-defined Mesolithic and Neolithic stratigraphy. Here, for the first time, archaeozoological, palaeobotanical, phytolith and dental calculus studies are combined with lipid residue analysis of around 100 pottery fragments and comparative analysis of faunal remains and organic residues. This holistic approach provides valuable information on changes in adaptation strategies, from Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to Neolithic herders exploiting domesticates. A unique picture is revealed of the natural environment and human subsistence, demonstrating the potential wider value of combining multiple methods.

scholarly journals Did the first farmers of central and eastern Europe produce dairy foods?

Antiquity ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (306) ◽  
pp. 882-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver E. Craig ◽  
John Chapman ◽  
Carl Heron ◽  
Laura H. Willis ◽  
László Bartosiewicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Secondary Products ◽  
Dairy Foods ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
European Farming

Although the origins of domestic animals have been well-documented, it is unclear when livestock were first exploited for secondary products, such as milk. The analysis of remnant fats preserved in ceramic vessels from two agricultural sites in central and eastern Europe dating to the Early Neolithic (5900-5500 cal BC) are best explained by the presence of milk residues. On this basis, the authors suggest that dairying featured in early European farming economies. The evidence is evaluated in the light of analysis of faunal remains from this region to determine the scale of dairying. It is suggested that dairying—perhaps of sheep or goats—was initially practised on a small scale and was part of a broad mixed economy.

scholarly journals Characterization of rabies virus isolated from a colony of Eptesicus furinalis bats in Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilene Fernandes de Almeida ◽  
Silvana R. Favoretto ◽  
Luzia F. Alves Martorelli ◽  
José Trezza-Netto ◽  
Angélica Cristine de Almeida Campos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Fluorescent Antibody ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Exposure Risk ◽  
Urban Buildings ◽  
Inoculation Techniques ◽  
Large Colony ◽  
Rabies Diagnosis

Some bat species have adapted to the expanding human population by acquiring the ability to roost in urban buildings, increasing the exposure risk for people and domestic animals, and consequently, the likelihood of transmitting rabies. Three dead bats were found in the yard of a house in an urban area of Jundiaí city in the state of São Paulo in southeast Brazil. Two of the three bats tested positive for rabies, using Fluorescent Antibody and Mouse Inoculation techniques. A large colony of Eptesicus furinalis was found in the house's attic, and of the 119 bats captured, four more tested positive for rabies. The objectives of this study were to report the rabies diagnosis, characterize the isolated virus antigenically and genetically, and study the epidemiology of the colony.

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