scholarly journals Um Novo Espécime do Gênero Octodontobradys (Orophodontidae, Octodontobradyinae) do Mioceno Superior/Plioceno da Amazônia Sul-Ocidental, Brasil

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
Edson Guilherme ◽  
Jean Bocquentin ◽  
Alice S. Porto
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Mandibular Canal ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Brazilian State ◽  
Anterior Position ◽  
The Town ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia ◽  
External Aperture

This study presents an almost complete mandible of Octodontobradys sp. from the late Miocene-Pliocene of the Solimões Formation from a locality on the border between Brazil and Bolivia, in southwestern Amazonia. The two almost complete mandibular rami, together with fragments of fossils from other taxa, were found on the left bank of the Abunã River, upriver from the town of Plácido de Castro, in the Brazilian state of Acre. The form of the symphyseal region of the mandible, and the elongated and bilobated outline of the alveoli of the m2-3-4 molariforms place the specimen clearly in the genus Octodontobradys. However, the new specimen differs from O. puruensis in (a) the anterior position of the posterior external aperture of the mandibular canal, and (b) the wider and more anteriorly inclined symphyseal region. The mandible described here represents the first specimen of the genus Octodontobradys found outside of the holotype locality, Talismã, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas and enabled us to emend the diagnoses of Subfamily Octodontobradyinae.

scholarly journals Monumentality in Western Amazonian formative societies: geometric ditched enclosures in the Brazilian state of Acre

Antiqua ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Saunaluoma ◽  
Denise Schaan
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Brazilian State ◽  
Amazonian Region ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia

In Amazonia, monumentality has traditionally been considered characteristic of the late pre-colonial densely populated complex societies. Recent archaeological fieldwork concerning the geometric earthworks in the Brazilian state of Acre has shown that the southwestern Amazonian interfluvial zone was a significant setting for long-term large landscape modifications. We describe the geometric ditched enclosure sites of Acre as early monumental public spaces reserved for ceremonial purposes, analogous to the central Andean ceremonial-civic centers of the Formative period. The geometric earthwork sites contain contiguous ditches and embankment structures of varying forms enclosing areas typically 3-10 hectares in size. Documented cultural features are sparse within the enclosed areas. Making use of satellite imagery, aerial photographs, and pedestrian surveys, 360 earthwork enclosures have been recorded in southwestern Amazonia. Our radiocarbon dates suggest that construction and use of geometric earthworks began at the latest around 1000 BC, and prevailed in the region until 1400 AD. The relatively small number of ceramics recovered from the geometric ditched enclosure sites appear to be local substyles of the same tradition, sharing certain attributes with contemporary ceramic traditions of the upper Amazonian region. This, and consistency in ceremonial earthwork architecture, indicate close cultural interaction between communities that built and used the earthwork sites, and imply probable relationships also with the central Andean area.

scholarly journals Checklist of orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of “Lago do Silêncio” Area, Boca do Acre, Amazonas, Brazil

Check List ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Storck-Tonon ◽  
Marilene Vasconcelos Silva ◽  
Elder Ferreira Morato
Keyword(s):  
Amazon Region ◽  
Sampling Effort ◽  
Orchid Bees ◽  
Brazilian Amazonia ◽  
Brazilian State ◽  
Euglossine Bee ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia

This study presents a list of euglossine-bee species collected in the Lago do Silêncio region, municipality of Boca do Acre, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, southwestern Amazonia. Euglossine males were attracted to odoriferous baits on December 3 and 4, 2004. A total of 234 individuals belonging to four genera and 25 species were collected. Despite the small sampling effort, the local euglossine fauna is abundant and rich, when compared to those of other areas in the Brazilian Amazonia where higher sampling efforts were performed. Therefore, further studies in the region can be important for improving our knowledge of the bees in the Amazon region. 

A Hoard of Gold Rings and Silver Groats found near Thame, Oxfordshire

1941 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Evans ◽  
E. T. Leeds ◽  
Anthony Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Town

On 21st April 1940 Willcocks McKenzie, lorry-driver of Thame, while walking along the left bank of the river Thame, about one mile north of the town and a short distance upstream from a pool known as Jemmett's Hole, had his eye attracted by the gleam of metal. This, on investigation, proved to come from the parcel of rings and coins which are the subject of this account.

II.—On Enclosures of Glass in a Basalt near Bertrich, in the Eifel

1896 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 242-245
Author(s):  
Mary C. Foley
Keyword(s):  
Left Bank ◽  
Green Glass ◽  
Dark Green ◽  
The Town ◽  
High Road

During a short holiday spent last summer in the Eifel, I was much struck with the occurrence of an extremely vesicular, dark-green glass in the lava at Bertrich, the most southerly point of the district at which traces of volcanic action are to be met with. It lies in the valley of the Uessbach, a little stream that flows into the Alf, a tributary of the Moselle. In all probability the ground on which Bertrich now stands was at one time covered with lava, and if the course of the Uessbach be followed for about a mile and a half above the town, thick patches of it may be clearly seen on either side of the present bed of the stream, all traces of it ceasing higher up the valley. It is well exposed in a quarry known as the Mühlrech, on the left bank of the Uessbach immediately below the high road to Kenfus, and about a mile above Bertrich. Here the lava exhibits a fine section about 90 feet high, but it is being rapidly cleared away for road metal. The quarry lies immediately at the mouth of a side-valley called the Müllischwiese, which commences near the foot of the Falkenlei, one of the three craters that overshadow Bertrich, and gently slopes down for a distance of about three-quarters of a mile into the valley of the Uessbach. The lava which can be thus so easily traced down to Bertrich is part of a great stream which in all probability commenced at some point in the Müllischwiese, and followed the course of the Uessbach, filling its channel to a considerable height. On its way it forms the well-known “Cheese Grotto,” about half-a-mile above Bertrich. It is difficult to determine the exact spot in the Müllischwiese at which the flow commenced, for the valley is now all under cultivation and much overgrown in places, and no traces of the flow can be seen except at the quarry to which I have referred, which is at the junction of the two valleys. Excavations have now been commenced immediately above the quarry by the side of the high-road; and the lava which is there being exposed is exactly similar to that seen below in the large quarry, only it is not so hard and compact, and presents a somewhat slaggy appearance.

scholarly journals The Location (And Founding) of a Town of Poznań in Light of the Earliest Documents and Narrative Sources

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Józef Dobosz
Keyword(s):  
German Law ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
New Town ◽  
The Town

Abstract The paper addresses the issue of the origins of the town of Poznań founded in mid-13th century under German law. The birth of the charter town on the left bank of the Warta river is illustrated first and foremost by sources: documents from the mid-13th century, particularly a location charter of 1253, and narrative sources, e.g. The Wielkopolska Chronicle and yearly records written in Wielkopolska. The town was the work of Przemysł I, the duke of Wielkopolska, who sorted out property issues on the left bank of the Warta, made grants and granted privileges, erected his new castle next to the new town, and together with his brother Bolesław issued a location charter in 1253. The duke’s action resulted in the rise of one of the most important urban centers in medieval Poland.

Direct AMS Radiocarbon dates for the Sungir mid Upper Palaeolithic burials

Antiquity ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (284) ◽  
pp. 269-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. B. Pettitt ◽  
N. O. Bader
Keyword(s):  
Adult Male ◽  
Supine Position ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Town

The site of Sungir (alternatively Sounghir) lies east of the town of Vladimir, about 200 km northeast of Moscow. It is a large mid Upper Palaeolithic ('Eastern Gravettian' sensu lato) cultural accumulation on the left bank of the Kliazma river, of which some 1500 sq. m was excavated in several seasons between 1957 and 1964 (Bader 1965; 1967; 1978; 1998).The single burial (Grave 1/Sungir 1) was excavated in 1964. It is that ofan adult male in extended, supine position, with his head oriented to the northeast and hands placed over his pubis (Figure 1). The second grave was discovered in 1969 and contained two adolescents — one male (Sungir 2) and one (probably) female (Sungir 3) — both extended, supine and lying head to head (Figure 2). All three burials were covered in red ochre and Sungir 1 was possibly associated with fires in a manner intriguingly similar to the DVXVI male burialat Dolní Větonice, Moravia (Svoboda et al. 1996).

The Divine Umundri King

Africa ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. W. Jeffreys
Keyword(s):  
Left Bank ◽  
Southern Nigeria ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
The Town ◽  
Personal Research

Opening ParagraphThis paper is based on personal research among the Igbo, and more especially among the Umundri group. It describes the coronation-ceremony of two divine kings who are the spiritual heads of the Umundri. The two divine kings occupy different towns which are in the Awka District, Onitsha Province. This Province is in Southern Nigeria and lies on the left bank of the Niger. Originally there was only Aguku and only one divine king. Dissensions arose and a part of Aguku seceded, to found the town of Oreri with its own divine king.

scholarly journals Diversity of Pre-colonial Earthworks in the Brazilian State of Acre, Southwestern Amazonia

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 362-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Saunaluoma ◽  
Martti Pärssinen ◽  
Denise Schaan
Keyword(s):  
Brazilian State ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia

A new cajaro catfish (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae:Phractocephalus) from the Late Miocene of southwestern Amazonia and its relationship to °Phractocephalus nassi of the Urumaco Formation

PalZ ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orangel A. Aguilera ◽  
Jean Bocquentin ◽  
Rio Branco ◽  
John G. Lundberg ◽  
Andrea Maciente
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia ◽  
Urumaco Formation
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