Murdock’s reconstruction (1959); its importance in Africa as a food is, however, much less than that of banana. Like banana, taro leaves are used as a food wrapping. Even when not being cultivated, taro is often found growing feral by human settlements, presumably as a relic of past cu...
Human settlements are highly dependent on water availability (Fang & Jawitz, 2019; LandScan Global, 2017) as water plays a crucial role in social welfare that directly relates to food and life quality. When water conditions are significantly altered that threaten people's livelihoods, effective ...
This wave was driven by the first arrival of people to islands across the Eastern Pacific, especially to Hawaii and the Marquesas Islands, as well as Aotearoa New Zealand (Fig.3c). The arrival of humans, along with the domestic animals (pigs, dogs, chickens) and Polynesian Rats (Rattus exu...
Craig Stewart, St Peters Anglican Church, Mowbray, Western Cape Curtis Love (University of South Africa, Theological Ethics) Johannesburg, Gauteng Sarah Montgomery, Lifespring Community Church, Durban, KZN Signatories
This area is predominantly Zululand Lowveld vegetation and settlements. It includes protected areas, for example, the biologically important wetlands of iSimangaliso Wetland Park and Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (Rowe-Rowe and Taylor 1996; Fairbanks and Benn 2000). The main agricultural production in ...
and 3 = large DHs with > 300 beds to 600 beds) [14]. “Loc.” = location/population been served by the hospital which was categorised based on demographic profile reported by the department of human settlements of KwaZulu-Natal province [33] (0 = rural; 1 = urba...
During the last 1.0 ka of occupation, communities experienced deep changes that led to greater homogeneity in pottery designs, less mobility, larger and more stable settlements, animal husbandry, and formal cemeteries (Falabella et al., 2016). By 0.55 ka, this area became the southernmost ...
(northwestern Thailand), dated between 34,000 and 12,000 years ago, has yielded evidence of Hoabinhian lithic assemblages and natural resource use by hunter-gatherer societies. To understand the process of early settlements of highland areas, we measured stable carbon and oxygen isotope compositions...
(Ogra2008; Lamarque et al.2009; Gore and Kahler2012). The gradual loss and fragmentation of habitat restricts wildlife to smaller pockets of suitable habitat and forces wildlife to stray beyond restricted ranges into adjacent farms and human settlements. The resulting close proximity between ...
in Table3and some mention in Sumerian cuneiform tablets, finds in Egyptian pharaonic tombs (2900–2150 BCE), stables in Amarna (14th century BCE), linearbandkeramik (LBK) settlements in Northern Europe and Roman settlements throughout Europe are known (Patterson2019). Today, this pest is ...