The Newton Stones and writing in Pictland, part 1

2021 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Kelly Kilpatrick
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Local Geology

In the grounds of Newton House near Insch in Aberdeenshire are two Pictish monuments. One is an inscribed stone that also has an incised Pictish mirror symbol, and the other is a Pictish symbol stone with a notched double-disc above a serpent and z-rod symbol. The inscribed stone, commonly referred to as the Newton Stone, has an ogham inscription on one edge that continues onto an added stemline, and on the top front is a unique horizontal, six-line alphabetic inscription. This article examines the documentary record for these two monuments, which were moved from their original location in the 18th and 19th centuries respectively. Through analysis of the documentary evidence, and in comparison with the local geology, the area of the original findspot of the Newton Stone and associated symbol stone is identified. The original landscape of these stones is compared with the topographical features of other Pictish monuments, particularly those in Donside. This comparison reveals that the topographical and liminal features in the original vicinity of the Newton Stone and symbol stone correspond with the wider pattern of the siting of Pictish symbol stones and Pictish cemeteries, and the association between a potentially Pictish-age settlement and these monuments may be suggested through examination of local place-names.

PROBLEMS OF CLASSIFICATION IN TOPONYMIC STUDIES AND THE ROLE OF ETHNOTOPONYMS IN THEM

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Bekhzodjon I. Zokirov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Separate Form

This article examines the problems of classification of toponymy of the Uzbek people in the research conducted in the 60s of the XX century to the beginning of the XXI century and the role of ethnotoponyms as a separate classification unit. We know that toponyms also include place names formed based on the names of people, nation, tribe, ethnic group, tribe. The field of scientific and practical study of these names is called ethnotoponymy. Ethnotoponyms, on the other hand, are the name of an ethnos, that is, they are the result of the interaction of an ethnonym and a system of toponyms. In this regard, the study of ethnotoponyms as a separate form of classification unit is extremely relevant

Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation: Place Names and Indigenous Languages: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Place Names 2019

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Symposium ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
The Other ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Place Naming ◽  
Selection Of

Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation: Place Names and Indigenous Languages is a selection of double-blind peer-reviewed papers from the 5th International Symposium on Place Names that took place 18-20 September 2020 in Clarens, South Africa. The symposium celebrated 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages as declared by the United Nations. Some of the studies in this publication excavate lost or disappearing indigenous toponyms. Those researchers contribute in a very concrete way to the preservation of indigenous toponyms, and thereby also the associated cultural heritage. The other papers explore how place naming functions as a mechanism with which to create mental maps and exert socio-political power. These proceedings are the outcome of international collaboration between Southern African and international scholars. As such, it is a valuable resource to local as well as international scholars who are interested in the interdisciplinary field of toponomy.

Lower Palaeozoic trace fossils from eastern Newfoundland

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 1613-1633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Bergström
Keyword(s):  
Short Review ◽  
Trace Fossils ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lower Palaeozoic ◽  
Local Geology ◽  
Conception Bay

Arthropod trace fossils are described from the Cambro-Ordovician sequence of Conception Bay. The sedimentological and ichnofaunal aspect is typical of an Acado-Mediterranean Province, but a few unique forms occur, including Rusophycus leifeirikssoni n. ichnosp. and R. cf. R. jenningsi. An effort is made to separate telopodite and exite scratches and to understand what kinds of trilobites were involved. Together with the description of the arthropod trace fossils, a list of the other trace fossils and short review of the local geology is given.

Blucium and Peium: The Galatian Forts of King Deiotarus

1974 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 61-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Historical Geography ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Roman Domination ◽  
Question Mark ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Roman Province

The topography and historical geography of Galatia, the area of central Anatolia which extended roughly from the modern Sivrihissar to Yozgat and which was occupied from the 3rd century B.C. by three Celtic tribes, is a subject which has remained obstinately obscure, despite its interest to Classical archaeologists and historians and to Celtic scholars. Progress in fixing the topography of the region after it became a Roman province in 25 B.C. has been made more readily, mainly thanks to two factors: first, the existence of an elaborate and important road system whose remains can still be traced on the ground, and second, the occasional find of inscriptions containing place names by which sites can be identified. No such assistance is available for the pre-Roman period, and, until comparatively recently, only three names could be placed on the map of independent Galatia without an accompanying question mark, Ancyra, Pessinus and Tavium which, under the Roman domination, became the capitals of the three Celtic tribes, the Tectosages, the Tolistobogii and the Trocmi. It was impossible to identify the other Galatian strongholds, which had disappeared from history after the organisation of the Roman province, with places named in the literary sources, even when their traces could be identified on the ground.

An analysis of medical synonyms

Terminology ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keita Tsuji ◽  
Kyo Kageura
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Dominant Term ◽  
Word Structure ◽  
Medical Dictionary ◽  
The One

This paper attempts to clarify the types of terms which are likely to be preferred among synonyms. We regard the term referred to by the other synonyms in a dictionary as the dominant term among synonyms. More than 2,000 pairs of Japanese synonymous terms for diseases are extracted from a standard medical dictionary, and their word-structures are analysed in relation with the preferred and non-preferred terms. It was found that the terms which include person names or virus names are likely to be dominant and that the terms which include place names or suffixes are not likely to be dominant. The relation between the concept which should be conveyed by the term and the one which is actually conveyed through the word-structure is discussed.

scholarly journals V.S. Naipaul’s A way in the world: contesting liminality by translating the historical past

Literator ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
ZHU Ying
Keyword(s):  
Vantage Point ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
The Other ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Past

In this article the concept of liminality is understood in a broad sense to mean the incompleteness of historical representation and the restrained view of reality. The ensuing discussion of the theme will be divided into three parts; each incorporating parts of Paul Ricoeur’s analyses in “The reality of the historical past” (1984). Ricoeur investigates the reality of the historical past under three categories – the Same, the Other, and the Analogue. Under the sign of “the Same”, contesting liminality is first discussed as the re-enactment of the historical past. This re-enactment of the past, however, has differences in the present on account of imaginative reinterpretations and repatternings of documentary evidence. Under the sign of ”the Other”, the second part or the article discusses Naipaul’s strategy of taking distance to counteract liminality in rewriting the historical past from the vantage point of a writer-traveller. Finally, the analysis under the sign of “the Analogue” points out that the commitment to combat liminality implies an unending attempt at rectifying and reconfiguring the historical past in order to accomplish continuity and renewal.

scholarly journals A GEOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF SOILS, APPLES AND LEAVES IN AGIA AREA, CENTRAL GREECE

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 2271
Author(s):  
K. Skordas ◽  
G. Papastergios ◽  
A. Filippidis ◽  
N. Kantiranis
Keyword(s):  
Clay Minerals ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Average Concentration ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Greece ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Local Geology ◽  
Geochemical Investigation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Forty two soil, apple and leaf samples from Agia area, central Greece, were collected and analyzed for their content in 7 major elements (Ca, Fe, K, Mg, Na, NP and S). The average concentration of the determined elements follows the Norder: concentration in soils > concentration in leaves > concentration in apples. Elements, such as Fe that is found enriched in the soils of the study area, due to local geology, is not correlated with its concentrations in apples and leaves, possibly because of its association with resistant minerals. On the other hand, the relationship of some elements (i.e., K, P, S) that are constituents of the agrochemicals applied in the area, indicate that they are more readily available by the trees, either because they are associated with less resistant (clay) minerals, or because they derive through the application of agrochemical products (i.e., phosphate fertilisers, fungicides etc.).

scholarly journals Treatment of names in Zambia and Estonia: A comparative analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-247
Author(s):  
Osward Chanda ◽  
Peeter Päll
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Place Names ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Estonian Language

Names constitute a key component of the cultural heritage of any region. Though geographically, culturally and linguistically apart, Estonia and Zambia share some elements and motivations in naming. Zambia’s British colonial experience and Estonia’s Danish, German, Polish, Swedish and Russian/ Soviet influence in the past made significant changes to personal and place names in both regions. Following independence, both states made strides in the indigenisation of names for promoting local heritage and national identity. Zambia predominantly focused on changing the names of some towns, and of the country (from Northern Rhodesia to Zambia). On the other hand, the Estonian onomastic experience has been more comprehensive – regulating both personal and place names, enacting corresponding laws and maintaining the Institute of the Estonian Language to oversee language and name planning, among other responsibilities. Kokkuvõte. Osward Chanda ja Peeter Päll: Nimekorraldus Sambias ja Eestis: võrdlev analüüs. Artikkel vaatleb Sambia ja Eesti nimesituatsiooni erinevusi ja sarnasusi. Sambia on mitmekeelne maa, ametikeel on inglise; Eesti on ametlikult ükskeelne maa, praktikas käibivad eesti keele kõrval ka vene ja inglise keel. Sambia isikunimedes on perekonnanimed valdavalt kohalikku päritolu, eesnimed enamjaolt euroopalikud; kohanimed on valdavalt ühekordsed. Sambias ei ole erinevalt Eestist nimeseadusi isiku- ja kohanimede reguleerimiseks. Ühine on mõlema maa puhul asjaolu, et ajaloos on varem domineerinud võõrvõimud, mis on jätnud jälje nimepilti. Kui proovida sõnastada universaalseid nimekorralduspõhimõtteid, siis võiksid need olla 1) nimede kui kultuuripärandi kaitse; 2) kohalike nimekujude eelistamine; 3) nimede keeleline korrektsus, 4) oma kultuuriidentiteedi hoidmine, 5) nimede pragmaatiliste aspektide (eristatavus, nimeinfo kättesaadavus jm) arvestamine.

Living in France

2019 ◽  
pp. 97-140
Author(s):  
William Chester Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
French Society ◽  
Population Densities ◽  
Northern France ◽  
Louis Ix

This chapter determines just how successful Louis IX's conversion project had been. It first asks how many converted Muslims and pagans had actually settled in France. All the chroniclers and thirteenth-century biographers of Louis IX who write about the conversion project appear to imply that the overwhelming proportion of converts were from Islam. The chapter, however, presents a more complicated picture through the use of documentary evidence, and creates a rough estimate of the converted population in northern France during the thirteenth century. In addition, the chapter explores the other logistical concerns of settling these immigrant converts in France, covering their royal stipends and endowments, occupations, population densities, how well they assimilated into French society, and similar.

Soil conditions and damage in the Mexico earthquake of July 28, 1957

1959 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-191
Author(s):  
C. Martin Duke ◽  
David J. Leeds
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Intensity Distribution ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
The Other ◽  
Soil Conditions ◽  
Isoseismal Map ◽  
Mexico Earthquake ◽  
Local Geology

abstract A report is given of observations of the effects of soil conditions on damage in Mexico City and Guerrero State in the earthquake of July 28, 1957. An isoseismal map is presented which identifies anomalies in intensity distribution which appear to be closely related to local geology and soil conditions. Comparison is made between Mexico City, 170 miles from the epicenter and founded on the deep alluvium of Lake Texcoco, and several cities and villages 60 miles from the epicenter, founded on firmer deposits or granite. Mexico City suffered Modified Mercalli intensities of VII and IV, respectively, in that part of the lake-bed area where tall buildings stand, and on the more compact formations. Of the several cities 60 miles from the epicenter, all suffered intensity V or less except Chilpancingo, where the intensity was VII to VIII. Chilpancingo rests on deep unconsolidated deposits; the other places are on rock or shallower unconsolidated deposits.

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