Population expansions from small founding groups of Neolithic males would carry both male uniparental markers and cultural packages that included Neolithic subsistence strategies, displacing hunter-gatherer Y-chromosomes and cultural practices, while mitochondrial chromosomes would remain diverse as large local ...
The poor quality of governance has a negative impact on the effects of mining on sociocultural practices of mine-host communities, increasing the likelihood of harm due to lack of social safeguards. However, even in countries with strong governance mining generates significant impacts on cultural ...
No one knows when or where plants first began to be used in the treatment of diseases, but the grave of a Neanderthal man buried 60,000 years ago, revealed that connection between plants and health has existed for thousands of years [29]. The northern mountains of Pakistan are well known...
michaelseni, M. natalensis, M. sybhyalinus, and M. vitrialatus. For those that emerge during the night, the most common way to collect them is to place a lamp above a bowl of water. They are attracted by the light and fall into the water from which they are scooped. A hole can ...
Saqqara was the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, a centre of major political and religious importance throughout Pharaonic history. Kings as well as commoners choose to be buried here from the earliest times onwards, resulting in the first monumental stone building (the Step Pyr...
During the process of performing these rites throughout a night, the dead body is MORTUARY RITUAL PRACTICES AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CHANGES 7 washed of dirt and sins from this world so that the deceased will be clean upon entering the oth- er...
Because worldwide fishing and fishing-related industries employ approximately 400 million people and another 1 billion rely on fish for a significant source of protein, wasteful fishing practices can have significant multiplier effects. Declining catches over the past decade have cost about 100,000 ...
This “sculptor of genius” was eventually “voluntarily” committed by her family to a psychiatric hospital in 1913 where she lived the remaining 30 years of her life, unable to practice her art. Her remains were buried in a communal grave at the asylum, her bones mixed with the bones of...
is not so much a matter of escaping from one’s suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother....
along with staged tableaux ofThe Angel at the Graveand the melodramaticMaudfrom one of Tennyson’s most famous poems. Cameron’s last major photographic project in the UK, before she and her family moved to Ceylon, present Sri Lanka, was to illustrate Tennyson’s workIdylls of the King...