scholarly journals Včasnostredoveké sídlisko v Brne-Medlánkach

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-78
Author(s):  
Jakub Benech
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Agricultural Activities ◽  
Spatial Analyses ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Human Skeleton ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Descriptive Models

The presented article examines the early medieval settlement in Brno-Medlánky. The archaeological finds were evaluated to obtain settlement spatial development and to reveal the practical, social and natural dimension of the settlement after the synthesis of the evidence. The relevance of the site in relation to early medieval Brno was also considered. The large quantity of ceramics, which was essential for this research, was processed using the database of J. Macháček. This enabled me to date the settlement between the 6th/7th to the 9th/10th century and, based on quantification, to characterise the morphological and technological features of the complex. The archaeological material was also compared with the material from other similar sites. The results of this analysis were acquired from data in the graphs, figures and quantification tables. The other findings were processed using descriptive models. Scientific analyses have proven the presence of blacksmithing and iron metallurgy at the site. Agricultural activities and processing of leather and textile were also documented at the site. The typical cumulative structure was evaluated within the framework of spatial analyses, together with the form and spatial development of the settlement. Moreover, the article deals with the complete skeletons of two dogs and one horse, and the human skeleton found in a storage pit. The complete animal skeletons were probably deposited for hygienic reasons; the human skeleton possibly proves an execution.

Neolithic Pottery and other Remains from Pangbourne, Berks., and Caversham, Oxon

1929 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Piggott
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Human Skeleton ◽  
Animal Bones ◽  
Tennis Court ◽  
Made In ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

In the present state of our knowledge of the Neolithic period in England, and especially as regards its pottery, any light that can be thrown upon it is welcome, and it is on that account that I have brought before the Society a report on two discoveries of Neolithic remains: at Pangbourne, Berks., and Caversham, Oxon.It is greatly to be regretted that owing to the circumstances of the discovery accurate observations could not be made. In May, 1928, workmen were engaged in levelling ground to make a tennis court, at “Farmhili,” Courtlands Hill, Pangbourne, and in doing so came upon, and, as is unhappily so often the case, disturbed and partly smashed a human skeleton, other animal bones, of which a few only survive, and a large bowl of coarse pottery, definitely of Neolithic type. It would seem that when found the bowl was imore or less complete, but Mr. G. W. Smith, of Reading, who visited the spot the day after the discovery, was only able to find about two-thirds of the vessel, in fragments, on the rubbish heaps of excavated material. These fragments, together with the other remains, were presented by the owner of the land, Lt.-Com. W. S. Macilwaine, R.N., to the Reading Museum, where the writer had the opportunity of examining them.

scholarly journals Computational system for geostatistical analysis

2004 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurimar Gonçalves Vendrusculo ◽  
Paulo Sérgio Graziano Magalhães ◽  
Sidney Rosa Vieira ◽  
José Ruy Porto de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Computer Program ◽  
Geostatistical Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Activities ◽  
Spatial Analyses ◽  
Computational System ◽  
Carbon And Nitrogen ◽  
Simple Kriging ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Development Approach

Geostatistics identifies the spatial structure of variables representing several phenomena and its use is becoming more intense in agricultural activities. This paper describes a computer program, based on Windows Interfaces (Borland Delphi), which performs spatial analyses of datasets through geostatistic tools: Classical statistical calculations, average, cross- and directional semivariograms, simple kriging estimates and jackknifing calculations. A published dataset of soil Carbon and Nitrogen was used to validate the system. The system was useful for the geostatistical analysis process, for the manipulation of the computational routines in a MS-DOS environment. The Windows development approach allowed the user to model the semivariogram graphically with a major degree of interaction, functionality rarely available in similar programs. Given its characteristic of quick prototypation and simplicity when incorporating correlated routines, the Delphi environment presents the main advantage of permitting the evolution of this system.

scholarly journals Role of agriculture and multifunctional rural development in Serbia

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalija Bogdanov ◽  
Zorica Vasiljevic
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Trade Balance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Agricultural Activities ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Clear Explanation

Serbia is mostly rural country, as three fourth of its territory make rural areas, while almost half population is living in rural areas. Serbian agriculture is the sector which is very important for the total economy of the country in respect of resources, participation in GDP, employment as well as importance for rural areas and population. This is the only sector in Serbian economy that shows positive foreign trade balance in the recent several years.There are potentials for development of agrarian entrepreneurship on one hand, but on the other, there are constraints in existence of great number of small family farms whereas the huge share could not have commercial profile and could not live only from agricultural activities. The concept of multifunctional development of agriculture and rural areas is still present mostly in scientific and political sphere without clear explanation or interpretation as well as mechanisms of implementation. Serbia’s rural space is heterogenic and devastated in different extent, and therefore extremely complicated for planning of multifunctional development.

scholarly journals Edelmetallgegenstände als Quellen zu sozialen Prozessen der Spätawarenzeit (8.–9. Jahrhundert n. Chr.)

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-452
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Precious Metal ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Carpathian Basin ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Metal Artefacts ◽  
The Social

Abstract The present paper analyses the precious metal artefacts, scarcely known in the huge archaeological material of the “late Avar period” (eighth to early ninth centuries AD). Unlike in the previous era the majority of the gold and silver objects of the late Avar period are stray finds; in particular high-quality goldsmith's artefacts are absent in the grave assemblages of the eighth century. The significance of precious metal objects in grave assemblages reached its low ebb around the middle of the late Avar period; afterwards not only new object types appeared but a new grave-horizon emerged comprising precious metal objects. This paper, based on the quality and morphology of the objects, their archaeological contexts as well as their spatial distribution, draws a conclusion concerning the social and cultural changes in the early medieval Carpathian Basin.

scholarly journals Dietary Laws in Medieval Christian-Jewish Polemics: A Survey

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irven Resnick
Keyword(s):  
Religious Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Moral Transformation ◽  
Special Diet ◽  
Dietary Laws

In the religious debate between Jews and Christians, the biblical dietary laws come to illustrate important assumptions concerning the “other.”  Early medieval Christians asserted that Christians were not bound by the dietary laws and tended to explicate them allegorically or figuratively. Although the biblical dietary laws prohibit many foods to Jews, as pork became a more important part of the medieval diet, the prohibition against swine’s flesh became central to the debate. Christians will assert not only that the consumption of pork proclaims a correct messianic theology, but also that the Lord, like a good physician, ordained a special diet for the Jews because they—and not Christians—have a corrupt bodily nature that is subject to deleterious influences from pork that incline Jews to gluttony and wantonness. Therefore, when a Jew converted to Christianity, the consumption of pork became a sign of his transfer from one religious community to another, as well as a sign of a physical, intellectual, and moral transformation.

An English Romanesque Mount and Three Ninth-Century Strap-Ends

2003 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 433-441
Author(s):  
Richard Jewell
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Silver Wire ◽  
The Other ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Anglo Norman ◽  
Open Work

This note discusses several recent English finds of early medieval ornamental metalwork shown at the Society of Antiquaries on 16 May 2002: most notably, a Romanesque mount with open-work foliate decoration having clear parallels with Norman and Anglo-Norman ornament of c 1100–25. Four ninth-century Anglo-Saxon strapends are also described and illustrated, two of which have decorative features with links to contemporary larger-scale works but rarer within the corpus of strap-ends; the other two being unusual examples of East Anglian niello and silver-wire inlay.

Hand Movements Which Cross the Body Midline: Findings Relating Age Differences to Handedness

1976 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 643-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. N. Schofield
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Lateral Inhibition ◽  
Hand Preference ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hand Movements ◽  
Body Midline ◽  
Inhibition Effect

Performance of 200 children (5 groups, 4 to 12 yr.) in an experimental study of spatial development was analyzed in terms of hand preference and differences in laterality of response. In accord with the literature a cross-lateral inhibition effect was confirmed but there were marked differences between hands. The supposed ‘body midline’ seemed to offer more resistance to one hand than to the other. Alternative explanations are suggested.

Predictable grammatical constructions

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-102
Author(s):  
Sandra Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Grammatical Construction ◽  
Specialized Function

My aim in this paper is to provide evidence from diachronic linguistics for the view that some predictable units are entrenched in grammar and consequently in human cognition in a way that makes them functionally and structurally equal to nonpredictable grammatical units, suggesting that these predictable units should be considered grammatical constructions on a par with the nonpredictable constructions. Frequency has usually been seen as the only possible argument speaking in favor of viewing some formally and semantically fully predictable units as grammatical constructions. However this paper presents evidence from historical linguistics, and more specifically diachronic arguments of a syntactic nature, to support the argument of frequency. I demonstrate that contrary to other Medieval Greek future periphrases, the Early Medieval Greek form [méllo (‘I am about to’) INFINITIVE (INF)] was both semantically and formally predictable. Despite this difference, [méllo INF], like the other future periphrases, seems to be highly entrenched in the cognition (and grammar) of Early Medieval Greek language users, and consequently a grammatical construction. The syntactic evidence speaking in favor of [méllo INF] as a grammatical construction consists in the following features: 1) [méllo INF] is more resistant to restructuring than many other verbal periphrases with an INF; and 2) in LBG [méllo INF] seems to have grammaticalized — as one of its uses — a specialized function embedded in subjunctives, in which méllo was semantically empty. Both these developments indicate that despite being both formally and semantically predictable, [méllo INF] was highly entrenched in EBG grammar.

scholarly journals VECHE OF THE POMERANIAN SLAVS IN THE ELEVENTH–TWELFTH CENTURIES (to the historiography of the problem)

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Nazar RIZUN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Collective Decision Making ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Gradual Transformation

Background: The research on early medieval Pomerania (eleventh–twelfth centuries) and its assemblies discusses a variety of interpretations. Scholars explain veche and its place in the governance of the region based on their understanding of Slavic societies. Historians trace the development of Pomerania during the Early Middle Ages, analyze gradual transformation of its institutions. Recent studies use such concepts as segmentary structures and chiefdom as well as the newest archaeological material. Purpose: The goal of the article is to study the research on veche, particularly the most recent publications. Among them, the works of such historians and archaeologists as Piotr Boroс, Karol Modzelewski, Roman Zaroff, Michaі Tymowski, Michaі Kara, Przemysіaw Urbaсczyk, and others. The paper investigates their understanding of the place of assemblies in the governance of early medieval Pomerania as well as the appliance of such concepts as segmentary structures and chiefdom. Results: Pomeranian veche could be understood both as an element of the early medieval societies and as a way of collective decision-making. The article highlights various approaches to the study of veche, specifically the appliance of such concepts as segmentary structures and chiefdom. The paper investigates their usefulness for the research on early medieval Pomerania and its assemblies. The concepts of segmentary structures and chiefdom describe local communities and regional political formations, respectively. They help to distinguish a few levels of governance, to analyze relations between various parts of early medieval societies, and to trace integration as well as state formation processes. The future studies could continue the discussion about the appliance of different methodological approaches in research on well-known and fragmentary source material. Key words: veche, Pomerania, historiography, segmentary structures, chiefdom.

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