scholarly journals The land snails of Lichadonisia islets (Greece)

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Galatea Goudeli ◽  
Aristeidis Parmakelis ◽  
Konstantinos Proios ◽  
Ioannis Anastasiou ◽  
Canella Radea ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Land Snail ◽  
Land Snails ◽  
Small Islands ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Island Group ◽  
First Time ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
Natural Communities

The Lichadonisia island group is located between Maliakos and the North Evian Gulf, in central Greece. Lichadonisia is one of the few volcanic island groups of Greece, consisting mainly of lava flows. Today the islands are uninhabited with high numbers of visitors, but permanent population existed for many decades in the past. Herein, we present for the first time the land snail fauna of the islets and we compare their species richness with islands of similar size across the Aegean Sea. This group of small islands, provides a typical example on how human activities in the current geological era, i.e., the Anthropocene, alter the natural communities and differentiate biogeographical patterns.

scholarly journals On the distribution and ecology of a rare land snail, Eostrobilops coreana (Pilsbry, 1927) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Strobilopsidae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 102-110
Author(s):  
Larisa A. Prozorova
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Rare Species ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Land Snail ◽  
Land Snails ◽  
Distribution And Ecology ◽  
First Time

Представлены подробные сведения о четырех местонахождения редкой наземной улитки Eostrobilops coreana (Pilsbry, 1927) на Корейском полуострове и трех в Приморском крае. Впервые показан кальцифильный характер вида. Новое местонахождение вида на п-ове Песчаный (административная территория Владивостока) является наиболее северной точкой распространения рода Eostrobilops Pilsbry, 1927. Ключевые слова: наземные улитки, редкие виды, Приморский край, Красные книги, смешанный хвойно-широколиственный лес, известняки, кальцифильные виды. Data on four localities of the Eostrobilops coreana (Pilsbry, 1927) on Korean Peninsula and Primorye Territory (Russia) are presented. For the first time, calcyphile character of the species is demonstrated. A new revealed site of the species at the Peschany Peninsula (Vladivostok administrative territory) is the most northern locality of the genus Eostrobilops Pilsbry, 1927. Key words: land snails, rare species, Primorye Territory, Red Data Books, mixed coniferous-broadleaved forest, limestone, calcyphile species.

scholarly journals ATOP THE KADMEIA: MYCENAEAN ROOF TILES FROM THEBES IN CONTEXT

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.

Land snails of eastern Madeira : speciation, persistence and colonization

1990 ◽  
Vol 239 (1294) ◽  
pp. 35-79 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Pattern ◽  
Land Snail ◽  
Land Snails ◽  
Interspecies Competition ◽  
Unstable Region ◽  
Main Island ◽  
Local Adaptations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Low Diversity ◽  
History Of

The Madeiran archipelago has an exceptionally rich land snail fauna (over 250 taxa), consisting mostly of endemic species with affinities with pre-Pleistocene Europe. Two surveys have been done to examine the distribution of species on the main island of the group, Madeira. The first shows that there is a faunal discontinuity between the eastern peninsula and the rest of the island. The second analyses the relation of the peninsula to the rest of Madeira. The peninsula has several distinctive species of its own. It also includes species usually from damp woodland, which appear to have a relict distribution there, and taxa nearly confined to it on Madeira but abundant on the Deserta islands and Porto Santo. Exam­ination of a fossil sequence shows that damper conditions have occurred on the peninsula in the past. Variation in Discula polymorpha Heterostoma , Steenbergia spp. and Amphorella spp. may be interpreted as showing local adaptations that perhaps indicate parapatric evolution. The general pattern of distribu­tion and the geological history of the islands suggests, however, that the present distributions result mostly from allopatric speciation in a geo­logically unstable region. As a whole, the archipelago is very species rich, but individual samples show low diversity. The possible contribution of interspecies competition to this pattern is considered.

scholarly journals The dynamics of traditional mobile practices of the Ludian Karelians

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 503-512
Author(s):  
I. Yu. Vinokurova ◽  
◽  
G. V Ryvkina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sedentary Lifestyle ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACT Introduction: in Russian and foreign ethnology of recent decades, there has been an increased interest in the study of culturally organized mobile practices of peoples, both nomads of the North and those leading a sedentary lifestyle, in the past and in modern life. Without them, knowledge about the cultural heritage of the people will be incomplete. In addition, history makes adjustments to the types of movements that inevitably affect the life of different social groups (including peoples). The above arguments show that mobile practices among different peoples need special research, in particular among the Karelians and their ethnic groups. The traditional culture of movement of which has many gaps in study and has never been studied comprehensively and in dynamics. Objective: identification of some types of traditional mobile practices of the Ludian Karelians and their dynamics based on the analysis of several in-depth biographical interviews on this topic, recorded from women born in the 1930s. Research materials: field audio materials of the authors. Results and novelty of the research: for the first time some types of traditional mobile practices of the Ludian Karelians for long and short distances, associated with economic and leisure activities, travel beliefs and rituals have been identified. It is concluded that during the twentieth century they underwent significant changes associated with collectivization, the fight against religion, the Great Patriotic War, the development of industrial production and urbanization

scholarly journals New Insights into the Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Sb Ores from Greece

Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Evangelos Tzamos ◽  
Platon N. Gamaletsos ◽  
Giovanni Grieco ◽  
Micol Bussolesi ◽  
Anthimos Xenidis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Epma Data ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
The Past ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Plasma Mass Spectrometry ◽  
First Time ◽  
Of Greece

Antimony is a common metalloid occurring in the form of Sb-sulfides and sulfosalts, in various base and noble metal deposits. It is also present in corresponding metallurgical products (concentrates) and, although antimony has been considered a penalty element in the past, recently it has gained interest due to its classification as a critical raw material (CRM) by the European Union (EU). In the frame of the present paper, representative ore samples from the main Sb-bearing deposits of Greece (Kilkis prefecture, Chalkidiki prefecture (Kassandra Mines), and Chios Isl.) have been investigated. According to optical microscopy and electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) data, the Greek ores contain stibnite (Sb2S3), boulangerite (Pb5Sb4S11), bournonite (PbCuSbS3), bertherite (FeSbS4), and valentinite (Sb2O3). Bulk analyses by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) confirmed, for the first time published, the presence of a significant Hg content in the Kilkis Sb-ore. Furthermore, Kassandra Mines ores are found to contain remarkable amounts of Bi, As, Sn, Tl, and Se (excluding Ag, which is a bonus element). The above findings could contribute to potential future exploration and exploitation of Sb ores in Greece.

Bronze Swords in Northern Europe: a reconsideration of Sprockhoff's Griffzungenschwerter

1953 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-147
Author(s):  
J. D. Cowen
Keyword(s):  
Northern Europe ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Intimate Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time ◽  
Made In

It is just over twenty years since Professor Ernst Sprockhoff published his classic study of bronze swords in Northern Europe, and a review of the situation as it presents itself today, surveyed from a point well outside the limits of the Nordic area, may not be out of place.The ground covered in this fine work had already in part been traversed by Sophus Müller and Gustav Kossinna; but in the process it had become a field of battle where the bitterest partisan spirit had all too recently been displayed, and might all too easily have been re-aroused. It is not the least part of our debt to Sprockhoff that he refused to treat his material on controversial lines, and confined himself to a presentation so objective that it immediately became possible, for the first time for many years, once more to discuss the subject in a sane and cool manner. Thus, adding much that was new and solely his own, he set down in plain, precise terms the whole of the evidence relating to the history, development, and chronology of the flange-hilted bronze swords of the North.Of this structure the main fabric, without any doubt, stands firm. The central theme, based on a large number of closed finds, and supported by an intimate knowledge of the material, need fear no criticism. Yet some aspects at least of the relations between the Nordic world and other parts of Europe call for re-examination, and the work of the past two decades enables some adjustments to be made. In fairness to Sprockhoff it should be stated quite clearly, at the outset, that the most important of these adjustments have been either made possible, or actually anticipated, by his own work in related fields since 1931.

IV. Hellenistic Historians

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 105-112
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Great Breadth ◽  
To Come ◽  
Rising Power ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
Varied History

The two centuries that separate Thucydides and Polybius saw a vast change in the historical map of Greece. The cosy world of the Aegean, upon which the destinies of Sparta and Athens had played themselves out, became the larger oikoumenê extending from Spain to India. From the north, the mainland Greeks had to contend with the rising power of Macedon, which eventually swept all before it. Then Alexander’s conquests, on a scale never previously seen, opened up the entire world of the Near East and part of the Far East to Greek arms and Greek culture, and this interaction left in its wake a series of kingdoms of varying size in Macedon, Egypt, and Syria, with an appetite amongst themselves for competition and conquest. In the other direction, the Celtic incursions, culminating in the great attack on Delphi in 278, compelled the Greeks to turn their eyes westward. The Sicilian Greeks, of course, had their own varied history during this time, both amongst themselves and against the great power of Carthage. And also from the west, Rome slowly but steadily began to come within the purview of the Greeks. Not surprisingly given such changes, the ways of writing history changed as well. Numerous writers in the fourth and third centuries penned histories of great breadth and variety, and by the time Polybius came to write his own work, he had before him a vast array of approaches to the past. As we shall see, Polybius expressed himself forcefully on these types of historiography, and it will be worth while here to give a brief summary of them.

Bembicosoma re-examined: a xiphosuran from the Silurian of the North Esk Inlier, Pentland Hills, Scotland

2003 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyall I. Anderson ◽  
Rachel A. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Reconstruction ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Tentative Assignment ◽  
Horseshoe Crabs ◽  
Early Palaeozoic ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACTThe Silurian arthropod Bembicosoma pomphicus Laurie, 1899 is re-studied in relation to other Palaeozoic chelicerate taxa. All three known specimens of Bembicosoma originate from the Silurian (late Llandovery) Eurypterid Bed of the Gutterford Burn Flagstones, Reservoir Formation, Pentland Hills, Scotland. Bembicosoma is removed from its previous tentative assignment to Eurypterida and re-assigned to Xiphosura. A morphological reconstruction of this taxon is presented for the first time. This work continues a reappraisal of the systematics of a number of taxa that belong within the synziphosurines, a loose grouping of early Palaeozoic chelicerate arthropods aligned with the Xiphosura (horseshoe crabs), but which have been mistakenly identified as eurypterids in the past. Bembicosoma is significant as it is one of the earliest known synziphosurines.

scholarly journals North-eastern Aegean sea: an effort to estimate steady-state N & P budgets during September 1998

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. KRASAKOPOULOU ◽  
V. ZERVAKIS ◽  
E. SOUVERMEZOGLOU ◽  
D. GEORGOPOULOS
Keyword(s):  
Inorganic Nitrogen ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
South Central ◽  
Eastern Aegean ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Saline Waters ◽  
Eastern Aegean Sea

The north-eastern Aegean sea, characterised by a complex topographical structure, is the area where highly saline waters of Levantine and South-Central Aegean origin are diluted by the outflowing through the Dardanelles of less saline waters of Black Sea origin and by river runoff from the Greek and Turkish mainland. Salinity and nutrient data collected during the INTERREG-I project are used to develop budget calculations and empirical models according to the LOICZ biogeochemical modelling guidelines. The results of the study indicate that the dissolved inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes imported into the NE Aegean through the Dardanelles are less important than it was believed in the past. Overall, the system acts as a net sink of DIN and DIP, as well as being a net producer of organic matter, as primary production exceeds respiration. Moreover, the system appears to fix more nitrogen than is lost through denitrification.

scholarly journals Land Snails of Selected Rare High Elevation Forests and Heath Balds of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

2012 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Dourson ◽  
Keith Langdon
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Land Snail ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
Land Snails ◽  
Restricted Range ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Smoky Mountains ◽  
High Elevation Forests ◽  
First Time ◽  
One New Species

Abstract Selected high elevation forests and heath balds of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) between Newfound Gap and Thunderhead Mountain were comprehensively sampled for the first time. Thirty-three species including one new species Fumonelix langdoni (Dourson) were documented occurring at elevations between 1,372 m to 2,012 m. Two previous land snail inventories in the park by Thompson (1981) and Dourson (2005) added sixteen species, bringing the total land snail fauna to forty nine species living above 1,372 m within park boundaries. Overall species richness declines with elevation yet numbers of snails appear to change little with increasing altitude. Heath balds were comparably rich sites for gastropods, Vitrinizonites latissimus (Lewis) being the most frequently observed land snail. Mesodon altivagus, (Pilsbry) and Fumonelix jonesiana (Archer) both documented during the survey are of global importance, a result of an exceptionally restricted range within the park. One ambiguous species in the genus Fumonelix (Polygyridae) is discussed and likely represents new taxa. Appalachina chilhoweensis (J. Lewis) was found at 1,666 m, representing the highest elevation the species has been documented to date.

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