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Climate change poses developmental setback to Nigeria, with increasing global warming impact, wet areas experience intermittent flood, and dry areas get drier. Hence, ecosystems as well as biodiversity determined biological, socio-economical and socio-political development through the provision of goods and services to humanity. With reference to this study, students’ roles during instruction include observation,..... ReadMore -
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Abstract : n many issues, a scientific discussion about the beginnings of Slavicism (Pol. Słowiańszczyzna) raises doubts and controversy. Thisessay is not a contribution about another excavation, but rather a statement at a higher level of generality-an attempt at a kind of synthesizing approach on the basis of logical deduction. The author stands on the side of supporters of the indigenous theory of theorigin of the Slavs, which he argues by citing several logical justifications. The considerations concern a fairly wide range - from theLusatian culture in the 8th century BC, when Scythian statehood dominated in its neighborhood, to the 15th century and the greatvictory of the Kingdom of Poland in alliance with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania over the state of the Teutonic Order. The mainstream consideration, however, concerns the war trad..... ReadMore -
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In Eastern Europe, in the cultures of the Bronze Age, there are bronze pendants, which are usually called spectacle pendants. Both of its spirals are twisted in 3-5 turns. They were found on the territory of the Donetsk ridge in the burial ground Shakhtersk, Chikmari II, Borgusta I. Decorations were hung on the chest. In one case, there were two pendants of different diameters on the chest of a buried person. The smaller suspension was strapped to the larger one. These findings are associated with the monuments of the Baba culture of the late 3rd millennium BC...... ReadMore -
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In 2013, the tomb of Han Lingkun (923-968 AD) was discovered in the construction process of Ci County, Handan City, Hebei Province. Han Lingkun was a famous general of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Records of his tombstone evidenced that he died from the back disease at the age of 45. Several black bones from an adult were unearthed in the tomb. Scanning Electron Microscope analysis showed that nanoscale cinnabar was detected both on the surface and interior of the black bone. This paper puts forward some possible explanations about the appearance of cinnabar in the black bone..... ReadMore -
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In 2021 field season, we have received a new data of chariot culture of the Bronze Age in Southern Trans-Urals. The burial of man with traces of combat trauma, cheek-piece and horses sacrifices has a central position in the big kurgan of Sintashta archaeological culture...... ReadMore -
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Ancient DNA from archaeological bones has brought to light relevant information on the molecular characterization of European Bronze Age populations. In this article we reconsider, with multivariate statistical techniques, the craniological studies of several samples from four thousand years ago, from the northern shore of the Mediterranean, carried out during the first half of the twentieth century, to respond to the typological vision that prevailed then. The results indicate that during the Bronze Age, there was a diffusion, from east to west, of minority groups with short and broad heads, probably metal prospectors, which were integrated into the local populations and had different cranial characteristics. This analysis complements the recent study of ancient DNA and provides new insights into the biodynamics of those populations..... ReadMore -
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One of the first man crafted objects dealing with the description of a celestial phenomenon or with an astronomical reference seems to be the Nebra disk. In the present paper we will discuss its morphology and give, through archeo-astronomical methods, a reasonable explanation of the depicted celestial phenomenon in agreement with well-known astrophysical properties of the Supernova explosion. We will therefore evaluate whether this hypothesis is reasonable in comparison with the age and positions of presently known Supernova remnants as well as comparing the present artefact with others available in the archeological community..... ReadMore -
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The expression νύμφη νῆις, attested in the Iliad [1], is traditionally understood as «Naiad nymph». However, by examining the contexts in which it appears, it is always referred to normal women, mothers of soldiers fallen in battle. It is advisable, therefore, to carefully analyze this matter, starting from one of the passages, very similar to each other, which contain this expression. For example, in the course of the battle under the Achaean wall [2],«Aias, son of Oïleus [3]/ leaped upon Satnius and wound him with athrust of his sharp spear, / the son of Enops, whom a peerless Naiad nymph conceived/ to Enops, as he tended his herds by the banks of Satnioeis» [4]. However, both in Greek and in the Homeric poems the word νύμφη often does not mean «nymph», but rather «bride», «wife», «lady»: in the Odyssey P..... ReadMore