and this period did not see the Roman state actually split up into four distinct sub-empires. Each emperor had his zone of influence within the Roman Empire, but this influence mainly applied to the theater of war. The tetrarch was himself often in the field, while delegating most of ...
Dissidence behind the Nuclear Shield? The Obninsk Atomic Research Centre and the Infrastructure of Dissent in the Late Soviet UnionProtagonists of the atomic project often figure prominently in narratives about nonconformist movements in Soviet history. This article provides an in-depth analysis of ...
The aim of this study is to investigate human mobility and dietary patterns of LN and EBA individuals buried at Kinnekulle. The investigation is based on interdisciplinary analyses of the remains from 18 humans and analyses of artefacts recovered in three gallery graves (Supplementary Information, ...
Settlement Patterns and Demography In Adriatic Italy (Fig. 4), settlements of the last part of the MBA are generally of small size and, with the exception of the northeastern and southeastern area, show no evidence of fortifications. The almost complete lack of funerary remains hampers our abili...
Be-sides the language of propaganda, this motif also influenced numerous otherphenomena, such as the concept of Crusading, internal relations within theHoly Roman Empire, thoughts about religious and social reforms within Chris-tianity overall, and (as the alien Other) the notion of (Christian) ...
The geochemical properties of the samples were investigated using a Niton XL 3 t 900 field portable X-Ray Fluorescence analyzer (fpXRF) mounted on a shield and used in laboratory conditions. We measured only those elements (see presentation in section 4.2) that are routinely used in sedimentary...
Traces of transcultural elements can be recognized in religious symbolism in the presence of motifs such as the so-called vogelbarke (a boat with bird-head shaped extremities), solar representations or the spiked wheel, and the European v-notch shield, some...
Gneisses which form the basement rock in much of the south Indian penin- sular shield contain 87Sr/86Sr value of 0.75 (Derry and France-Lanord 1996) which add support to the observation of generally higher values of 87Sr/86Sr composition of the studied rocks. However, the spikes of 87...
Late Mesozoic igneous intrusions and extensional structures in Carboniferous to Permian sequences in the SW Fujian region acted as important controls on the localisation of Fe-polymetallic deposits. Here we document the identification of extensional deformation at shallow crustal levels and syn-tectonic gr...