scholarly journals THE MESOLITHIC CEMETERY OF GROß FREDENWALDE (NORTH-EASTERN GERMANY) AND ITS CULTURAL AFFILIATIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol Lietuvos archeologija T. 46 ◽  
pp. 65-84
Author(s):  
ANDREAS KOTULA ◽  
HENNY PIEZONKA ◽  
THOMAS TERBERGER
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Mortuary Practices ◽  
North Central ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
New Research ◽  
Cultural Networks ◽  
East West ◽  
North Central Europe ◽  
Grave Goods

The site of Groß Fredenwalde was discovered in 1962 and has been known as a Mesolithic multiple burial since 14C-dates verified an early Atlantic age in the early 1990s. New research since 2012 reconstructed the situation of the poorly documented rescue excavation in 1962 and identified six individuals from at least two separate burials. The new excavations uncovered more burials and Groß Fredenwalde stands out as the largest Mesolithic cemetery in North Central Europe and the oldest cemetery in Germany. In this paper the known burial evidence from this site is presented and the location of the cemetery, mortuary practices, and grave goods are discussed in a broader European context. Northern and Eastern connections appear especially tangible in Groß Fredenwalde and it is suggested that the community associated with the Groß Fredenwalde Mesolithic cemetery was integrated into wider cultural networks connected to the North and East. Keywords: Mesolithic burials, Mesolithic networks, East-West contacts, mortuary practices, grave goods.

The Glueckstadt Graben, a sedimentary record between the North and Baltic Sea in north Central Europe

2005 ◽  
Vol 397 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 113-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriy Maystrenko ◽  
Ulf Bayer ◽  
Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Sedimentary Record ◽  
North Central ◽  
The North ◽  
North Central Europe

Flora and Fauna early and middle devensian flora and vegetation

1977 ◽  
Vol 280 (972) ◽  
pp. 229-246 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Pollen Data ◽  
North Central ◽  
The North ◽  
Longitudinal Zonation ◽  
Type Site ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
North Central Europe

The record of palaeobotanical data from the Early and Middle Devensian (to 18000 B.P.) is reviewed, with additional pollen data from the Devensian type site at Four Ashes presented. Pollen and macrofossil assemblages derive principally from herb vegetation, but woodland episodes are known from the Early Devensian. Correlations of herb and woodland biozones are made with events in the Weichselian sequences of the Netherlands and north central Europe, and comparisons are made with the north American Wisconsin interstadial sequence and events in the North Atlantic cores. The environment of the herb and woodland biozones is discussed. The effect of a cool Atlantic as a modifying factor affecting the longitudinal zonation of Middle Weichselian vegetation across north central Europe is considered. The relation between environmental evidence based on flora/vegetation and that on fauna is discussed. Apparent discrepancies result from inadequate solutions of the problems associated with interpreting palaeoclimates from fossil assemblages. An interpretation of the data in the context of variation of assemblages of the same age across north Europe may offer better solutions for these problems.

scholarly journals The evolution of dual meat and milk cattle husbandry in Linearbandkeramik societies

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1860) ◽  
pp. 20170905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalind E. Gillis ◽  
Lenka Kovačiková ◽  
Stéphanie Bréhard ◽  
Emilie Guthmann ◽  
Ivana Vostrovská ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Age At Death ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
North Central ◽  
The North ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Cattle Husbandry ◽  
North Central Europe

Cattle dominate archaeozoological assemblages from the north-central Europe between the sixth and fifth millennium BC and are frequently considered as exclusively used for their meat. Dairy products may have played a greater role than previously believed. Selective pressure on the lactase persistence mutation has been modelled to have begun between 6000 and 4000 years ago in central Europe. The discovery of milk lipids in late sixth millennium ceramic sieves in Poland may reflect an isolated regional peculiarity for cheese making or may signify more generalized milk exploitation in north-central Europe during the Early Neolithic. To investigate these issues, we analysed the mortality profiles based on age-at-death analysis of cattle tooth eruption, wear and replacement from 19 archaeological sites of the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) culture (sixth to fifth millennium BC). The results indicate that cattle husbandry was similar across time and space in the LBK culture with a degree of specialization for meat exploitation in some areas. Statistical comparison with reference age-at-death profiles indicate that mixed husbandry (milk and meat) was practised, with mature animals being kept. The analysis provides a unique insight into LBK cattle husbandry and how it evolved in later cultures in central and western Europe. It also opens a new perspective on how and why the Neolithic way of life developed through continental Europe and how dairy products became a part of the human diet.

scholarly journals Central European Border Settlements and Interwar Ireland: a Transnational Study of the North- Eastern Boundary Bureau and the Boundary Commission

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lili Zách
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
Central European ◽  
The North ◽  
Eastern Boundary ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Post War ◽  
Transnational Study ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACTIn the aftermath of the Great War, the birth of new independent small states in East-Central Europe was closely followed in Irish nationalist circles due to the possibility of Partition in Ireland. Newspaper editorials, journal articles and diplomatic accounts illustrate that post-war Ireland had an open attitude toward the settlement of borders on the Continent as the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was similarly controversial. This paper aims to investigate how contemporary Irish commentators perceived the question of boundary settlements in Central Europe in order to provide an insight into the transformation of political space in both Ireland and Central Europe. After providing a brief background to the Irish boundary question, this paper touches upon the most important points in historiography with regard to border settlements in the post-World War I era.. It also discusses Irish Partition history in detail, concentrating on the North-Eastern Boundary Bureau (NEBB) and the Boundary Commission, and the importance of Central European precedents in their work. Moreover, this paper also proposes to provide an insight into the Irish interest in the minority problem in European borderland regions after 1925 in order to illustrate the outward-looking attitude to Irish nationalists, even in relation to borders and minorities.

scholarly journals Spatial and spatiotemporal dynamics of visceral leishmaniasis in an endemic North-eastern region of Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ândria Silveira Almeida ◽  
Caíque Jordan Nunes Ribeiro ◽  
Camila Caroline Carlini ◽  
Rogério Silva Santos ◽  
Allan Dantas Dos Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visceral Leishmaniasis ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Spatiotemporal Dynamics ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Endemic Region ◽  
Health Care Networks ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Local Moran ◽  
New Research

Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is a neglected disease with increasing incidence in Brazil, particularly in the North-eastern. The aim of this study was to analyze the spatial and spatiotemporal dynamics of VL in an endemic region of North-eastern Brazil, between 2009 and 2017. Using spatial analysis techniques, an ecological and time series study was made regarding VL cases in Sergipe filed as notifiable disease events. With data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, IBGE), a digital population and cartographic baseline was established. Segmented linear regression was used to examine the temporal trends. The statistical analysis methods of Global and Local Moran’ I, local Bayesian empirical methodology and spatial-temporal scanning were used to produce thematic maps. High instances were found among adults, males, urban residents, non-Whites and persons with low levels of education. A decrease in the recovery rate and an increase in the proportion of urban cases and lethality was found. A heterogeneous VL distribution with spatiotemporal agglomeration on the seaside of the state was seen in Sergipe. To better manage the disease, new research is encouraged together with development of public health strategies. Further, improving health care networks, especially primary care, is suggested as this approach has a key role in health promotion, prevention and monitoring of the most prevalent diseases.

The Elbe Fault System in North Central Europe—a basement controlled zone of crustal weakness

2002 ◽  
Vol 360 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 281-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Scheck ◽  
Ulf Bayer ◽  
Volker Otto ◽  
Juliette Lamarche ◽  
Dirk Banka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Fault System ◽  
North Central ◽  
North Central Europe

scholarly journals The recent development of melanism in the larvæ of certain species of Lepidoptera, with an account of its inheritance in Selenia bilunaria esp

1932 ◽  
Vol 111 (770) ◽  
pp. 188-200 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Evolutionary Processes ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Geometrid Moth ◽  
State Of Affairs

One of the most remarkable evolutionary processes, the more striking since it has occured before our eyes, has been the rise and spread of melanism and melanochroism amongst the Lepidopetera. Commencing about 1850 in the Manchester area in England with the Geometrid moth Amphidasys betularia L., which yielded the black form carbonaria Jord. ( doubledayaria Mill.), this development has proceeded so rapidly, and become so widespread, that now there is scarcely a country in Northern and Central Europe which does not produce its quota of melanic insects. Moreover, the same state of affairs exists in the North-Eastern United States, although there the number of species affected, up to the present, is not so great as in Europe. Another important feature about these changes lies in the circumstance that, almost uniformly, in Europe and in the United States, the first species to exhibit melanism in any given area have been Amphidasys betularia and Tephrosia crepuscularia . From the beginning, the Geometridæ, more especially the subfamily Boarmiinæ, have provided not only the bulk of the melanic varieties, but also the greatest numbers of individuals. In many areas, as for example in the case of A. betularia and Y psipetes trifasciata , only black examples occur. Nevertheless, other groups include species which have gone black; for instance, the Noctuidæ present black forms of Aplecta nebulosa Hufn., the Cymatophoridæ of Cymatophora or F., the Arctiidæ of Spilosoma lubricipeda L., the Gelechiidæ of Chimabacche fagella F., and so on.

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