The Architecture and Pottery of a Late Third-Millennium Residential Quarter at Tell Hamoukar, North-Eastern Syria

Iraq ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 21-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Colantoni ◽  
Jason A. Ur
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Spatial Patterning ◽  
Ceramic Assemblage ◽  
Change Models ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Residential Quarter ◽  
Abrupt Climatic Change ◽  
Residential Neighbourhood

The 2001 excavations in Area H on Hamoukar's lower town produced a wealth of information on a residential neighbourhood of a late third-millennium BC city. The excavations were intended to address several issues, including chronology, urban form and the final abandonment of the site. Toward these ends, a broad exposure of over 400 m2 was opened, revealing a prosperous neighbourhood that had been sacked and abruptly abandoned. This report addresses two aspects, its architecture and ceramic assemblage, in detail. The architecture demonstrates broadly shared principles in spatial patterning and planning, as well as similarities in construction, with variations connected to socioeconomic status. The ceramics represent a snapshot of the assemblage of the late or post-Akkadian period, including many whole or reconstructable forms. Contrary to the expectations of abrupt climatic change models, Hamoukar remained settled and urbanised after the proposed 2200 BC Akkadian collapse, and its abandonment was the result of a sudden and violent military event.

A Remote Sensing Based Calibration Framework for the MOLAND Urban Growth Model of Dublin

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Van de Voorde ◽  
Johannes van der Kwast ◽  
Frank Canters ◽  
Guy Engelen ◽  
Marc Binard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Model Calibration ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Model Output ◽  
Spatial Metrics ◽  
Change Models ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function

Land-use change models are useful tools for assessing and comparing the environmental impact of alternative policy scenarios. Their increasing popularity as spatial planning instruments also poses new scientific challenges, such as correctly calibrating the model. The challenge in model calibration is twofold: obtaining a reliable and consistent time series of land-use information and finding suitable measures to compare model output to reality. Both of these issues are addressed in this paper. The authors propose a model calibration framework that is supported by information on urban form and function derived from medium-resolution remote sensing data through newly developed spatial metrics. The remote sensing derived maps are compared to model output of the same date for two model scenarios using well-known spatial metrics. Results demonstrate a good resemblance between the simulation output and the remote sensing derived maps.

Prevalence of Alcoholic Liver Disease and Its Association with Socioeconomic Status in North-Eastern China

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1035-1041 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haixia Wang ◽  
Lixian Ma ◽  
Qiling Yin ◽  
Xiaowei Zhang ◽  
Cuiqin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Liver Disease ◽  
Alcoholic Liver Disease ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
North Eastern

scholarly journals Interactions between Neighbourhood Urban Form and Socioeconomic Status and Their Associations with Anthropometric Measurements in Canadian Adults

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin R. McCormack ◽  
Christine Friedenreich ◽  
Lindsay McLaren ◽  
Melissa Potestio ◽  
Beverly Sandalack ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Neighbourhood Level ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods ◽  
Status Number ◽  
Socioeconomic Composition

Neighbourhood-level socioeconomic composition and built context are correlates of weight-related behaviours. We investigated the relations between objective measures of neighbourhood design and socioeconomic status (SES) and their interaction, in relation to self-reported waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio, and body mass index (BMI) in a sample of Canadian adults (n=851from 12 Calgary neighbourhoods). WC and BMI were higher among residents of disadvantaged neighbourhoods, independent of neighbourhood design (grid, warped grid, and curvilinear street patterns) and individual-level characteristics (sex, age, education, income, dog ownership, marital status, number of dependents, motor vehicle access, smoking, sleep, mental health, physical health, and past attempts to modify bodyweight). The association between neighbourhood-level SES and WC was modified by neighbourhood design; WC was higher in disadvantaged-curvilinear neighbourhoods and lower in advantaged-grid neighbourhoods. Policies making less obesogenic neighbourhoods affordable to low socioeconomic households and that improve the supportiveness for behaviours leading to healthy weight in low socioeconomic neighbourhoods are necessary.

scholarly journals Tell Barri / Kahat. La campagna del 2004

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Emilio Pecorella ◽  
Raffaella Pierobon Benoit
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Western Border ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

In the undulating plains of north-eastern Syria is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat. The archaeological sequence which has been brought to light stretches without interruption from the start of the third millennium up to the fourteenth century AD. This report illustrates the results of the twentieth excavation campaign, carried out by the group from the University of Florence and from the "Federico II" University of Naples. In Area G the levels of the first half of the III millennium BC and a sequence of strata of the Mitanni epoch were investigated, while on the western border of the site another section of the palace of Adad-nirari I was brought to light. In Area J the operations exposed the eastward extension of the palace structure resulting from transformations in the Neo-Babylonian period; in the northern section another courtyard of the palace of Tukulti Ninurta II was brought to light. The text, prepared for printing in July 2005, was published following the tragic death of Paolo Emilio Pecorella, which took place on 29 August in Tell Barri in the course of the excavation campaign.

scholarly journals The smelting of copper in the third millennium cal BC Trentino, north-eastern Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pearce ◽  
Stephen Merkel ◽  
Andreas Hauptmann ◽  
Franco Nicolis
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Copper Smelting ◽  
Smelting Process ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Copper Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Matte Smelting ◽  
Rock Shelters

Abstract This paper presents observations and analyses on seven slag pieces from two third-millennium cal BC (Late Copper Age/Early Bronze Age) rock shelters in the Trentino, north-eastern Italy: La Vela di Valbusa and the Riparo di Monte Terlago. We review previous work on contemporary slags from the region and show that the smelting did not follow the well-known ‘Timna’, ‘Eibner’ or so-called ‘Chalcolithic’ copper smelting processes. We show that ethnographic accounts of copper smelting in the Himalayas (Sikkim and Nepal) illuminate the smelting process, in particular the lack of preliminary roasting or ore beneficiation by washing, the use of slags as fluxes for the first smelt (matte smelting) and the use of wooden (?) implements to lift the hot slags from the furnace during the smelt. The rock inclusions in the slag are consistent with an ore origin from mines at Calceranica or Vetriolo, as previously reported in the literature.

scholarly journals Sex and socioeconomic status were also significant risk factors: “AT for the rs10757278 polymorphism”

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-03
Author(s):  
Vkihih-Hwa Chen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
Single Nucleotide ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern

Background: Numerous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in chromosomal region 9p21 have been associated with cardiovascular disease, most of these studies in European populations. We have no knowledge of studies conducted in admixed populations populations as the Latin Americans. For this reason we decided to study the association of SNPs rs2383206, rs10757274 and rs10757278, together with some non-genetic factors with arterial thrombotic events (AT), in individuals from the north-eastern portion of Venezuela. Methods: Gender, age and non-genetic risk variables were evaluated in 119 patients with AT and 119 control subjects. Genotypes were identified using TaqMan probes. The odds ratio (OR) for genotypes alone and in conjunction with non-genetic variables were estimated. Results: There was a consistent association of rs10757278 with AT, increased in males (OR=2.38). The medium-low socioeconomic status also confers a significant risk for AT in both sexes (OR=4.04). Haplotypes with at least two A alleles, proved to be protective (OR=0.53) in developing arterial thrombosis. Conclusions: There was a consistent association with AT for the rs10757278 polymorphism, increased in males. Sex and socioeconomic status were also significant risk factors in this study reinforcing the importance in studying other variables such as environmental and sex differences together with the genetic structure of each population when analyzing risks for AT diseases. These results serve as a guide when searching for markers of risk for this disease common in Venezuela.

The Early Settlement of Scotland: Excavations at Morton, Fife

1971 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Coles ◽  
J. Allo ◽  
R. D. M. Candow ◽  
T. M. Clegg ◽  
G. S. Cowles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Early Historic

The Mesolithic settlement at Morton lies some six miles north-north-west of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland (fig. 1). The area around the site, north-eastern Fife, is surrounded on three sides by water, and projects as a blunt peninsula into the North Sea. The river Eden and the Firth of Tay serve as southern and northern boundaries of this peninsula, which consists today principally of the wind-deposited sands of Tentsmuir. The area of Tentsmuir, now afforested, is one of the relatively few regions in Britain where land is building up into the North Sea, and this process has been in action for many centuries (Sissons, 1967).The Tentsmuir Sands are a prolific source of later prehistoric and early historic finds, the earliest yet known being of the late third millennium B.C. In February 1957, while searching for such material on Tentsmuir, Mr R. Candow of Tayport collected some flints from molehills and other exposures on the high ground of the ‘Old Quarry’ field at Morton Farm (National Grid Reference NO 467257). Surface collections continued to be made until 1963 when excavations of the site were undertaken by Mr Candow in collaboration with Dundee Museum and Art Gallery (Candow, 1966). A total of 41 trenches were excavated between May 1963 and April 1967, and these are shown on the plan of site A (fig. 4, no. 1–41). In November 1967, site B in the same field was discovered and partially excavated (fig. 29, no. 51), before work was suspended and the writer was invited to continue the investigations.

scholarly journals Social Structure in a Roma Settlement: Comparison over Time

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 7311
Author(s):  
Michal Kozubik ◽  
Daniela Filakovska Bobakova ◽  
Rastislav Rosinsky ◽  
Martina Mojtova ◽  
Miroslav Tvrdon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Historical Periods

The objective of the present study was to compare the social structure and internal establishment of a Roma community in two historical periods: in the 18th century and the present. We analysed Samuel Augustini ab Hortis’s work, “Von dem Heutigen Zustände, Sonderbaren Sitten und Lebensart, Wie Auch von Denen Übrigen Eigenschaften und Umständen der Zigeuner in Ungarn” (On the Contemporary Situation, Distinctive Manners and Way of Life, as Well as the Other Characteristics and Circumstances of Gypsies in Greater Hungary), written in 1775–1776. Using content analysis, we subsequently compared his findings with our recent data from analogous qualitative research in a geographically-defined area of north-eastern Slovakia, the same region in which Augustini lived. Data collection was intensely conducted in 2012–2013 and once more in 2017–2019. The qualitative methods included direct observation, semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Four key informants and more than 70 participants collaborated in the study. The greatest difference we observed compared to the 18th century was the absence of a leader of the community, a “vajda”, whose status was taken over by a new social class of “entrepreneurs”. The most vulnerable group of the segregated and separated Roma communities are the “degesa”, the lowest social class. They face a phenomenon consisting of so-called triple marginalization: they live in one of the most underdeveloped regions of the country, they inhabit segregated settlements and they are excluded by their own ethnic group. The socioeconomic status of the richest classes has changed faces, while the socioeconomic status of the lowest has not. We found a misconception among helping professionals (e.g., social workers) regarding the homogeneity of the Roma community. This calls for more attention to the erroneous use of the ethnic-based approach in the helping professions.

scholarly journals Tell Barri / Kahat. La campagna del 2003

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Emilio Pecorella ◽  
Raffaella Pierobon Benoit
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

In the undulating plains of north-eastern Syria is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat. The archaeological sequence which has been brought to light stretches without interruption from the start of the third millennium up to the fourteenth century AD. This report illustrates the results of the twentieth excavation campaign, carried out by the group from the University of Florence and from the "Federico II" University of Naples. In Area G, the excavation of the chapel dating to the third millennium proceeded along with that of the palace of the Mid Assyrian King Adadnirari I; three coeval tombs were discovered, two with lavish furnishings. In Area J, the exploration of the Assyrian palace of Tukulti-Ninurta II was continued. As regards the Parthian phase, investigation has proceeded on the Great Defensive Wall in Area E and of the residential section in Area H. The text, prepared for printing in July 2005, was published following the tragic death of Paolo Emilio Pecorella, which took place on 29 August in Tell Barri in the course of the excavation campaign.

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