scholarly journals North-East Estonian coastal sea: recovery from the past anthropogenic pressure and new stressors on the background of natural variability

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ü. Suursaar ◽  
R. Aps ◽  
I. Kotta ◽  
O. Roots
Keyword(s):  
Natural Variability ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressure ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
Coastal Sea ◽  
Sea Recovery

scholarly journals THE TIME CAPSULE IN THE POST-SOVIET SOVKHOZ

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (47) ◽  
pp. 84-110
Author(s):  
Elena Malaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Logic ◽  
Soviet Economy ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
State Farm ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Time Capsule ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is devoted to ideas about the Soviet era, widespread in а village in the north-east of Crimea. The paper offers an analysis of how the community, formed around a partially preserved state farm, builds its own picture of historical time, expands the imaginary boundaries of the Soviet period, and also thinks of it not so much as the past, but as the past future. Particular attention is paid to the object that organizes its temporality — а time capsule, which was laid twice in the studied village (in 1967 and in 2017), as well as its connection with the teleology of modernism. The article compares letters to descendants, sealed in two time capsules, as well as additional documents sent to the future. The text of the 1967 letter is based on a progressive narrative and contains a list of economic indicators of the success of the Soviet economy. By contrast, the 2017 text creates a picture of an unstable time of change, in which the focus is not on the predictable future, but on the vague past and present. The author of the article explains the nostalgia for the Soviet era in the studied community by the reaction to the changes and crises of the post-Soviet period, and suggests using temporal logic in the research of post-socialism.

scholarly journals Atmospheric precipitation on the soils of Belarusian Polesye

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 26-35
Author(s):  
M. K. Chartko ◽  
A. A. Karpichenka
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Radioactive Contamination ◽  
Anthropogenic Impact ◽  
Atmospheric Precipitation ◽  
Organic Fertilizers ◽  
Natural Soil ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressure ◽  
North East ◽  
State Radiation

The article considers the influence of atmospheric precipitation in the form of dust and dry residue with rain and snow in the formation of technogenic situations in the soils of the Belarusian Polesye. Anthropogenic impact on the soil is formed as a result of entering into the soil of technogenesis product, is made up of atmospheric precipitation in the form of dust and rain, as well as key components of chemical reclamation (Ca, Mg, K, N, P) of soil. Based on field research and data of the Hydrometeorological Service of Belarus there was generalized the information and disclosed the regularities of dust deposition and mineral residue precipitation in Belarusian Polesye. Mapping the anthropogenic impact on the soil was performed using software packages ESRI ArcView and ESRI ArcGIS. It is set a noticeable spatial heterogeneity in the level of anthropogenic impact on the soil of the Belarusian Polesye, ranging from 6,3 t/ha per year in the district of Gantsevichi to 17,6 t/ha in Malorita district, Brest region. There is a general tendency of increasing of the given parameter in the direction from north-east to south-west of Polesye. The level of anthropogenic impact is largely dependent on natural (soil properties and structure of the soil) and economic (level of development and specialization of industry and agriculture) factors. The lowest value of the anthropogenic impact (less than 7,5 t/ha per year) is characteristic for areas with underdeveloped industry and a high proportion of drained peat soils: Gantsevichi, Oktyabrsky, Narovlya and Zhitkovichi. For the western part of the Belarusian Polesye (Malorita, Stolin, Ivanovo, Berezovsky, Drogichin areas) other than large areas of sandy soils, characterized by increased loads on agropochvy (12,1 or more t/ha per year), the largest contribution falls on the organic fertilizers. Technogenic situation in the soils was estimated based on the amount of annual agrotechnogenic load on the soil, air emissions from stationary sources and the level of radioactive contamination, formed as a result of the Chernobyl accident. As a result, we allocated favorable, satisfactory, conflict, tension, and critical situation. Favorable technogenic situation is typical for soils under forests and within specially protected areas (national parks and nature reserves) with anthropogenic load of less than 1 t/ha, not contaminated and distant from industrial centers. Such conditions correspond to 15 % of the Belarusian Polesye near major rivers and their tributaries in the region (the area between the Dnieper and the Sozh, the middle flow for the Pripyat and its tributaries Sluch, Yaselda, Ubort). A satisfactory situation has developed for 28,5 % of the territory, mainly within the northern part of the Pripyat Polesye due to a moderate level of anthropogenic pressure, in part – in the border of forest and wetland areas due to contamination with radionuclides. The conflict situation is typical for the northern part of Brest and Mozyr Polesye, on the right bank of the Dnieper and Berezina rivers, as well as in the area between Pina and Goryn rivers (27,7 %). In the southern part of the Brest Polesye, as well as in the countryside and along the Goryn river valley there is a tense situation (22,2 %), due to high anthropogenic pressure and intensive agricultural activities, in the latter case – also complicated by radioactive contamination. Critical man-made situation (7 %), which is observed in the south-east of Polesye, is due to high levels of radioactive contamination within the Polesye State Radiation Ecological Reserve and adjacent areas, despite the relatively low levels of air and agrotechnogenic pollution.

Debating a great site: Ban Non Wat and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia

Antiquity ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (347) ◽  
pp. 1211-1220 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.F.W. Higham
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Copper Base ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Bronze Casting

Almost half a century has elapsed since the first area excavation of a prehistoric site in north-east Thailand at Non Nok Tha (Bayard & Solheim 2010) (Figure 1). A long and still unresolved debate has ensued, centred on the chronology of the establishment of rice farming and bronze casting, that has dovetailed with further controversies on the pace and nature of social change. Results obtained during the past 20 years of fieldwork focused on the upper Mun Valley of north-east Thailand, together with a new series of AMS radiocarbon determinations from key sites, have thrown into sharp relief contrasting interpretations of two issues: one centres on the timing and origin of the Neolithic settlement; the other on the date and impact of copper-base metallurgy. A consensus through debate would bring us to a tipping point that would see Southeast Asian prehistory turn to more interesting issues of cultural change.

Site Location and Site Hierarchy in Prehistoric Thailand

1982 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. F. W. Hicham ◽  
Amphan Kijngam ◽  
B. F. J. Manly
Keyword(s):  
Water Buffalo ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Site Location ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
Iron Technology ◽  
Archaeological Project ◽  
Ban Chiang

During the past decade, archaeological research in north-east Thailand has concentrated on the excavation of individual sites. Of these, the best known are Non Nok Tha (Bayard 1971) and Ban Chiang (Gorman and Charoenwongsa 1976). Both are relatively small occupation and burial sites, covering c. 1 ha and 3.5 ha respectively.There have been several claims for an unexpectedly early bronze-working tradition in the area, and of the inception of iron technology during the second millennium BC. Biological remains from these sites reveal cultivation of rice and maintenance of domestic herds of cattle, pig and water buffalo (Gorman and Charoenwongsa 1976). While the recent surge of prehistoric research here and in adjacent areas has clearly demonstrated the presence of a south-east Asian bronze working tradition of some antiquity (Ha Van Tan 1980), the establishment of a chronological framework and of the settlement pattern in the area are in their infancy.As part of the Thai Government's North-east Thailand Archaeological Project, steps were taken in 1980–81 to expand our knowledge of the Ban Chiang culture. During the 1980 dry season, Higham and Kijngam co-directed two intensive field surveys.

Airport Disaster Planning — A Different Approach

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-129
Author(s):  
C. John Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Survival Rates ◽  
Disaster Planning ◽  
Unique Problem ◽  
Aircraft Accidents ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
Major Disaster ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Major Accident ◽  
North Western

The Disaster Planning for Stansted Airport, which' it is proposed will become London's third airport, with expansion to handle up to 50 million passengers per annum by the end of the decade, poses a unique problem because, unlike most other major airports, it is relatively isolated and some distance from the medical facilities required to handle a major disaster. The airport is situated about halfway between London and Cambridge, each 30 miles away, in the heart of the countryside in North Western Essex, close to its border with Hertfordshire.In the past, the number of survivors from aircraft accidents involving narrow-bodied jets has been very small but, with the advent of the wide-bodied jets such as the Boeing 7k7, this has changed and survival rates in excess of 50% have been found. This gives a potential of more than 250 survivors from an aircraft with 500 seats, many of whom might be expected to have major injuries.The nearest hospital is k miles away which, in the event of a major disaster, could take up to 6 seriously injured and 12 walking wounded within the first 4 h. Twelve miles away is another hospital which could take the same number, and 20 miles away is a further hospital which could handle up to 8 seriously injured and 20 walking wounded. The nearest hospitals with major accident departments are in North East London and Cambridge, each of which could take up to 10 seriously injured and 50 walking wounded initially.

scholarly journals Late Holocene temperature variability in Tasmania inferred from borehole temperature data

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 559-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asadusjjaman Suman ◽  
Fiona Dyer ◽  
Duanne White
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Borehole Data ◽  
Depth Profiles ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Borehole Temperature ◽  
Temperature Depth

Abstract. Thirty-six borehole temperature–depth profiles were analysed to reconstruct the ground surface temperature history (GSTH) of eastern Tasmania for the past 5 centuries. We used the singular value decomposition method to invert borehole temperatures to produce temperature histories. The quality of borehole data was classified as high or low based on model misfit. The quality of the borehole data was not dependent on topography or land use. Analysis reveals that three to five high-quality borehole temperature–depth profiles were adequate to reconstruct robust paleotemperature records from any area. Average GSTH reconstructed from Tasmanian boreholes shows temperature increases about 1.2 ± 0.2 °C during the past 5 centuries. Reconstructed temperatures were consistent with meteorological records and other proxy records from Tasmania during their period of overlap. Temperature changes were greatest around the north-east coast and decreased towards the centre of Tasmania. The extension of the East Australian Current (EAC) further south and its strengthening around the north-east coast of Tasmania over the past century was considered a prime driver of warmer temperatures observed in north-east Tasmania.

scholarly journals ATOP THE KADMEIA: MYCENAEAN ROOF TILES FROM THEBES IN CONTEXT

2020 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 175-245
Author(s):  
Vassilis L. Aravantinos ◽  
Ioannis Fappas ◽  
Yannis Galanakis
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Similar Material ◽  
Widespread Distribution ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
First Time

Questions were raised in the past regarding the use of Mycenaean tiles as ‘roof tiles’ on the basis of the small numbers of them recovered in excavations and their overall scarcity in Mycenaean domestic contexts. The investigation of the Theodorou plot in 2008 in the southern part of the Kadmeia hill at Thebes yielded the single and, so far, largest known assemblage per square metre of Mycenaean tiles from a well-documented excavation. This material allows, for the first time convincingly, to identify the existence of a Mycenaean tiled roof. This paper presents the results of our work on the Theodorou tiles, placing emphasis on their construction, form and modes of production, offering the most systematic study of Mycenaean tiles to date. It also revisits contexts of discovery of similar material from excavations across Thebes. Popular as tiles might have been in Boeotia, and despite their spatially widespread attestation, their use in Aegean Late Bronze Age architecture appears, on the whole, irregular with central Greece and the north-east Peloponnese being the regions with the most sites known to have yielded such objects. Mycenaean roof tiles date mostly from the mid- and late fourteenth century bc to the twelfth century bc. A study of their construction, form, production and contexts suggests that their role, apart from adding extra insulation, might have been one of signposting certain buildings in the landscape. We also present the idea that Mycenaean tile-making was guided by a particular conventional knowledge which was largely influenced by ceramic-related technologies (pottery- and drain-making). While production of roof tiles might have been palace-instigated to begin with, it does not appear to have been strictly controlled. This approach to Mycenaean tile-making may also help explain their uneven (in terms of intensity of use) yet widespread distribution.

Fire history and its drivers based on peatland charcoal analysis in the Changbai Mountains, north-east China, during the last 13 000 years

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 841
Author(s):  
Meng Meng ◽  
Dongmei Jie ◽  
Dehui Li ◽  
Nannan Li ◽  
Baojian Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fires ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Fire Frequency ◽  
Changbai Mountains ◽  
Mountain Forest ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
Strict Regulation

The Changbai Mountains forest ecosystem is one of the best-preserved temperate mountain forest ecosystems in Asia. Since the establishment of the reserve in 1960, extensive forest fires have been excluded as a result of strict regulation and suppression efforts and thus fuels have accumulated for several decades. Due to the lack of historical fire records in the area, the risk of fire occurrence cannot be properly estimated. In this study, we used charcoal records to reconstruct the palaeo-fire frequency in the Changbai Mountains during the last 13000 years. The results indicate that fires were frequent during 13.0–11.0, 7.0–6.0, and 2.5–2.0 calender (cal) kyr before present (BP) and from 1.0 cal kyr BP to the present. The fire frequencies are largely consistent with other palaeoenvironmental records from the study area and we conclude that since 13.0 cal kyr BP fires were more frequent at the regional scale during intervals of a weak summer monsoon, caused by a cold and dry climate and the abundance of flammable trees. Archaeological data from the study area since 3.0 cal kyr BP indicate increasing human activity, which dominated the occurrence of local fires. In addition, intermittent volcanic activity influenced the occurrence of fires during the past millennium.

scholarly journals AQUATIC/SEMI-AQUATIC MACROPHYTES USED IN HERBAL REMEDIES FROM THE WETLANDS OF WESTERN ASSAM, NORTH-EAST INDIA

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-96
Author(s):  
UPEN DEKA ◽  
TAPAN DUTTA ◽  
SANJAY TALUKDAR
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Herbal Remedies ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressure ◽  
Rural People ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East ◽  
Trapa Natans ◽  
Stomach Pain ◽  
Euryale Ferox

Objective: The aim of present investigation has been carried out for the documentation of ethnomedicinally important aquatic/semi-aquatic plants used by the rural people living in the vicinity of two major wetlands, i.e., Deepor Beel and Chandubi Beel of Western Assam, India. Methods: Intensive field surveys were conducted with the local traditional healers to gather information on medicinal plants used by them in treatment of various ailments. Results: Altogether 31 medicinal plant species belonging to 25 genera and 14 families have been documented from both the wetlands. Of 31 plant species, nine species were found to be used in skin disease, six in jaundice and liver problem, four species each in fever and urinary tract, two species in dysentery and snakebite, and remaining are found to be used in cough, stomach pain, wounds and cuts, neuralgia, toothache, tonsillitis, blood pressure, and smallpox. Conclusion: Unfortunately, the population of ethnomedicinally used macrophytes Nelumbo nucifera, Euryale ferox, and Trapa natans which are rare in these two wetlands are decreasing alarmingly due to commercial exploitation, natural as well as excessive anthropogenic pressure in these two wetlands.

La notion linguistique d’agglutination. Son histoire et l’analyse des verbes dans les langues Boro-Garo

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-70
Author(s):  
François Jacquesson
Keyword(s):  
North East India ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
Linguistic History ◽  
The Way

Abstract We first examine the concept of agglutination, as it developed in modern linguistics, and tentatively explore its basic tenets. With this purpose, we (1) start from the way Abel Hovelacque first used the word in French, (2) farther in the past find the concept in Schlegel’s writings, then follow it down to Schleicher, (3) describe how the term is now used in Analytic Linguistics, with examples from authors who described the Boro-Garo languages (Tibeto-Burmese, North-East India). We conclude (4) with ideas about the various shades of the concept as far as history is concerned, and linguistic history in particular.

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