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Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe
2019
International audience; Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the introduction of Near Eastern pigs into Europe, however, their characteristic mtDNA signature disappeared and was replaced by haplotypes associated with European wild boars. This turnover could be accounted for by substantial gene flow from local Euro-pean wild boars, although it is also possible that European wild boars were domesticated independently without any genetic contribution from the Near East. To test these hyp…
Torah, Temple, Land
2021
Veröffentlicht auf Englisch. Dieser Band widmet sich den Erscheinungsformen, in denen das Judentum in der Antike Gestalt annahm. Bekanntlich war das antike Judentum eine Religion in ständigem Wandel, mit unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf zentrale Kategorien wie Tora, Tempel und Heiliges Land. Was als »Judentum« oder »jüdisch« angesehen wurde, stand demnach nicht einfach fest, sondern musste stets neu verhandelt werden.
Fluvial activity of the late-glacial to Holocene “Bergstraßenneckar” in the Upper Rhine Graben near Heidelberg, Germany – first results
2022
Abstract. The term “Bergstraßenneckar” (BSN) refers to an abandoned course of the river Neckar. It flowed in a northern direction east of the river Rhine in the eastern part of the northern Upper Rhine Graben in southwestern Germany. The former meandering course merged with the Rhine ca. 50 km further north of the site of the present-day confluence near Mannheim. The palaeo-channels are still traceable by their depressional topography, in satellite images and by the curved boundaries of adjacent settlements and land parcels. In the plan view, satellite and aerial images reveal a succession of meander bends, with older bends being cut off from younger channels. Based on stratigraphic investi…
Seasonal Changes in Urban PM2.5 Hotspots and Sources from Low-Cost Sensors
2022
PM2.5 concentrations in urban areas are highly variable, both spatially and seasonally. To assess these patterns and the underlying sources, we conducted PM2.5 exposure measurements at the adult breath level (1.6 m) along three ~5 km routes in urban districts of Mainz (Germany) using portable low-cost Alphasense OPC-N3 sensors. The survey took place on five consecutive days including four runs each day (38 in total) in September 2020 and March 2021. While the between-sensor accuracy was tested to be good (R² = 0.98), the recorded PM2.5 values underestimated the official measurement station data by up to 25 µg/m3. The collected data showed no consistent PM2.5 hotspots between September and M…
Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database
2018
27 Pags.- 11 Tabls.- 8 Figs. © Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Short-term occupations at high elevation during the Middle Paleolithic at Kalavan 2 (Republic of Armenia).
2021
The Armenian highlands encompasses rugged and environmentally diverse landscapes and is characterized by a mosaic of distinct ecological niches and large temperature gradients. Strong seasonal fluctuations in resource availability along topographic gradients likely prompted Pleistocene hominin groups to adapt by adjusting their mobility strategies. However, the role that elevated landscapes played in hunter-gatherer settlement systems during the Late Pleistocene (Middle Palaeolithic [MP]) remains poorly understood. At 1640 m above sea level, the MP site of Kalavan 2 (Armenia) is ideally positioned for testing hypotheses involving elevation-dependent seasonal mobility and subsistence strateg…
Nuovi confini, senza limiti: giochi di parole per le discipline urbane?
2018
Il contributo affronta in chiave critica il tema dei “nuovi confini urbani” in un’epoca priva di limiti spaziali. I riferimenti alla base delle riflessioni si riconducono all’articolata linea di ricerca che problematizza le ricadute spaziali dei fenomeni socio-economici di ristrutturazione della città post-fordista, esito dei processi di globalizzazione, urbanizzazione planetaria e migrazioni internazionali. Tali fenomeni configurano nuove geografie multi-culturali e generano un «mosaico sociale ristrutturato» che è al tempo stesso, rispetto alla scala globale, il risultato dei fenomeni di de-territorializzazione e ri-territorializzazione del capitale, del lavoro e della cultura («cosmopoli…
Mobilità umane e nuove geografie migranti
2015
“Mobilità umane e geografie nascoste” è stato il tema centrale della 8 edizione della Summer school in “Migranti, Diritti Umani e Democrazia”, scuola estiva di studi avanzati promossa Università degli studi di Palermo che si è svolta a Favignana (TP). L’edizione della summer del 2014, i cui atti consegnati dagli autori (Annamaria Amitrano, Loredana Bellantonio, Sara Bonfanti, Alice Castelli, Marco Correale, Lina Di Carlo, Giancarlo Fontana, M. Concetta Greco, Anna Re, Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo, Ambra Zambernardi) sotto forma di saggio, per approfondire le problematiche sui vecchi e nuovi fattori di spinta delle migrazioni di massa. "Mobility and human geographies hidden" was the central the…
i possibili Sud dell'esistenza: L'isola di Evelina Santangelo
2016
“Il modo in cui ho sempre trattato la lingua, il modo in cui ho sempre ricercato una particolare espressività, anche quando non ho raccontato esplicitamente della mia terra, sono una traccia fortissima ed evidente della mia identità siciliana. E infine anche l´ossessiva attenzione verso la marginalità, verso tutti i possibili ‘sud’ dell´esistenza”. Così dichiara Evelina Santangelo, in un’intervista del 2009, confermando la conflittualità dialettica di un legame con la “terramadre” sempre più lontano dalla riconoscibilità mimetica dei luoghi eppure talmente intrinseco alle ragioni stesse della scrittura da farsene elemento costitutivo. La Sicilia dell’autrice palermitana si delinea nella sua…
From corona virus to corona crisis : the value of an analytical and geographical understanding of crisis
2020
Abstract The term ‘crisis’ is omnipresent. The current corona virus pandemic is perceived as the most recent example. However, the notion of crisis is increasingly deployed as a signifier of relevance, rather than as an analytical concept. Moreover, human geography has so far little contributed to the interdisciplinary crisis research field which is fixated on the temporal aspects of crisis but neglects its spatiality. Against this background, the first aim of the paper is to demonstrate the value of thinking about crisis analytically. Therefore, we introduce theoretical knowledge developed within a recently emerging literature on crisis management. Second, we demonstrate the relevance of i…