Bone artefacts from Riwi Cave, south‐central Kimberley: Reappraisal of the timing and role of osseous artefacts in northern Australia.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle C. Langley ◽  
Jane Balme ◽  
Sue O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Northern Australia ◽  
South Central

Perempuan dan Liminalitas dalam Tradisi Perkawinan Adat di Timor Tengah Selatan

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Marsel Eliaser Liunokas
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Qualitative Research Method ◽  
South Central ◽  
A Value ◽  
Traditional Marriage ◽  
The Village ◽  
As If

Timorese culture is patriarchal in that men are more dominant than women. As if women were not considered in traditional rituals so that an understanding was built that valued women lower than men. However, in contrast to the article to be studied, this would like to see the priority of women’s roles in traditional marriages in Belle village, South Central Timor. The role of women wiil be seen from giving awards to their parents called puah mnasi manu mnasi. This paper aims to look at the meaning of the rituals of puah mnasi maun mnasi and the role and strengths that women have in traditional marriage rituals in the village of Belle, South Central Timor. The method used for this research is a qualitative research method using interview techniques with a number of people in the Belle Villa community and literature study to strengthen this writing. Based on the data obtained this paper shows that the adat rituals of puah mnasi manu mnasi provide a value that can be learned, namely respect for women, togetherness between the two families, and brotherhood that is intertwined due to customary marital affrairs.

Hybrid crinoids in the fossil record (Early Mississippian, Phylum Echinodermata)

Paleobiology ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
William I. Ausich ◽  
David L. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Record ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Parent Species ◽  
Probable Explanation ◽  
South Central ◽  
Most Probable Explanation ◽  
The Impact

Potential hybrid fossil crinoids, Eretmocrinus magnificus x Eretmocrinus praegravis, are identified from the Lower Mississippian Fort Payne Formation of south-central Kentucky. These are the first fossil hybrid crinoids identified, and one of very few examples of hybrids recognized in the fossil record. Eretmocrinus magnificus x E. praegravis specimens have shapes and calyx plate sculpturing that are morphologically intermediate between well-defined, distinct parent species. Suspected hybrids occur at localities where parent species co-occur and where the parent species are the most abundant; the hybrids occur at what may have been the distributional margins of the parent species; and the mixture of characters on suspected hybrids seems to be morphogenetically partitioned. Parent species are derived from separate lineages within Eretmocrinus, and hybridization is the most probable explanation for these morphologically intermediate specimens. This example highlights the need to consider hybridization as a potential interpretation of intermediate morphologies among fossils and raises questions concerning the impact of hybridization for our interpretation of the fossil record and the role of hybridization in the evolutionary process.

scholarly journals Influence of the 2015–2016 El Niño on the record-breaking mangrove dieback along northern Australia coast

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Abhik ◽  
Pandora Hope ◽  
Harry H. Hendon ◽  
Lindsay B. Hutley ◽  
Stephanie Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Model ◽  
Frequency Component ◽  
Enso Cycle ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Climate Conditions

AbstractThis study investigates the underlying climate processes behind the largest recorded mangrove dieback event along the Gulf of Carpentaria coast in northern Australia in late 2015. Using satellite-derived fractional canopy cover (FCC), variation of the mangrove canopies during recent decades are studied, including a severe dieback during 2015–2016. The relationship between mangrove FCC and climate conditions is examined with a focus on the possible role of the 2015–2016 El Niño in altering favorable conditions sustaining the mangroves. The mangrove FCC is shown to be coherent with the low-frequency component of sea level height (SLH) variation related to the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle in the equatorial Pacific. The SLH drop associated with the 2015–2016 El Niño is identified to be the crucial factor leading to the dieback event. A stronger SLH drop occurred during austral autumn and winter, when the SLH anomalies were about 12% stronger than the previous very strong El Niño events. The persistent SLH drop occurred in the dry season of the year when SLH was seasonally at its lowest, so potentially exposed the mangroves to unprecedented hostile conditions. The influence of other key climate factors is also discussed, and a multiple linear regression model is developed to understand the combined role of the important climate variables on the mangrove FCC variation.

scholarly journals A History of Koshe Town in South-Central Ethiopia from 1941 to 1991

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-137
Author(s):  
Yohannes Tesfaye Getachew
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
Military Regime ◽  
Central Ethiopia ◽  
South Central ◽  
Important Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Military ◽  
Commercial Center

Abstract Koshe town is the administrative and commercial center of Mareko woreda.1 It is found in Gurage Zone Southern Nation Nationalities and Peoples Regional State. According to the tradition the origin of the name “Koshe” is originated from the plant which called by the name Koshe which abundantly grow in the area. The establishment of Koshe town is directly associated with the five years Italian occupation. Due to the expansion of patriotic movement in the area Italian officials of the area forced to establish additional camp in the area in a particular place Koshe. This paper explores the role of Fascist Italy for the establishment of Koshe town. The former weekly market shifted its location and established around the Italian camp. Following the evacuation of Fascist Italy the Ethiopian governments control the area. During the government of Emperor Haile Selassie Koshe town got some important developmental programs. The most important development was the opening of the first school by the effort of the Swedes.2 The Military regime (Derg)3 also provided important inputs for the urbanization of Koshe town. This research paper observes the development works that flourish in Koshe during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie and the Military regime, and also asses the role of different organizations for the urbanization of Koshe town.

Growing Up on an Appalachian Farm

2017 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezra C. Holston ◽  
Bonnie Callen
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Data ◽  
Cognitive Status ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
South Central ◽  
Central Appalachia ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

Background Research on centenarians to date has focused on areas with a high population of centenarians. However, there is limited literature on centenarians’ perspectives about growing up on farms from the heartland of Appalachia in Eastern Tennessee. Purpose This qualitative descriptive study was designed to characterize the role of a farming childhood by exploring the viewpoints of community-dwelling centenarians who grew up on farms in south central Appalachia. Methods A qualitative descriptive design was used with a convenience sample ( n = 16). Cognitive status was determined with the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire. Demographic data were collected. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed with the Neuendorf method of content analysis. Results Main emerging themes were the farm, the family, and the environment. Conclusion The farm was at the center of these centenarians’ childhood, influencing their family, community relations, and social interactions, which provided lessons that they utilized throughout their long lives.

Introduced and native grass-derived smoke effects on Cymbopogon obtectus germination

2014 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Williams ◽  
Eleanor M. Collins ◽  
Mick Blackman ◽  
Clare Blackman ◽  
Jackie McLeod ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Native Species ◽  
Native Plants ◽  
First Record ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Untreated Seed ◽  
Native Grass ◽  
Buffel Grass ◽  
Lemon Grass ◽  
Germination Cues

Introduced grasses, such as buffel, alter the dynamics of grassy ecosystems by replacing native species and influencing recruitment. Several different smoke-derived chemicals are separately responsible for the promotion and inhibition of germination of various plant species. We tested whether smoke derived from the introduced buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) produced the same density of germination as provided by smoke derived from a native spinifex grass (Triodia brizoides). Smoke from both spinifex and buffel grass significantly enhanced the germination of a native lemon grass (Cymbopogon obtectus) in comparison to untreated seed, reflecting the significant role of fire in woodlands across northern Australia. This is the first record of smoke-promoted germination in a species of Cymbopogon. However, smoke from the exotic buffel grass provided the same level of germination as that from the native spinifex, suggesting similarity in smoke chemicals involved. Further research is required to test the effect of buffel smoke on the germination of other species and whether exotics such as buffel grass provide the same temperature profile in the topsoil as does spinifex, and therefore equivalent germination cues to heat-shock responsive native plants.

Role of melt in the formation of a deep-crustal compressive shear zone: The MaClaren Glacier Metamorphic Belt, south central Alaska

Tectonics ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 348-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron Davidson ◽  
L. S. Hollister ◽  
S. M. Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Shear Zone ◽  
Metamorphic Belt ◽  
South Central

scholarly journals Multiethnicity, pluralism, and migration in the south central Andes: An alternate path to state expansion

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (30) ◽  
pp. 9202-9209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul S. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Central Andes ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The South ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
State Expansion ◽  
South Central ◽  
Archaic States ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Social Entities

The south central Andes is known as a region of enduring multiethnic diversity, yet it is also the cradle of one the South America’s first successful expansive-state societies. Social structures that encouraged the maintenance of separate identities among coexistent ethnic groups may explain this apparent contradiction. Although the early expansion of the Tiwanaku state (A.D. 600–1000) is often interpreted according to a centralized model derived from Old World precedents, recent archaeological research suggests a reappraisal of the socio-political organization of Tiwanaku civilization, both for the diversity of social entities within its core region and for the multiple agencies behind its wider program of agropastoral colonization. Tiwanaku’s sociopolitical pluralism in both its homeland and colonies tempers some of archaeology’s global assumptions about the predominant role of centralized institutions in archaic states.

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