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Punta di Zambrone (Calabria, Italy) and the Recent Bronze Age in the Southern Tyrrhenian Region. Orea|Punta di Zambrone I Oriental and European Archaeology Volume 17|
No full textThis contribution focuses on the impasto production of the Recent Bronze Age site of Punta di Zambrone (Calabria), with the aim of defining the cultural processes taking place in the southern Tyrrhenian region between the 13th and 12th centuries BC. This very large set of new findings has been the object of a typological classification, together with other materials from the geographical area of the site (Lipari, southern Tyrrhenian Calabria, northeastern Sicily). Some of the most peculiar Subapennine ceramic classes are described in this paper, namely: bowls and cups within the open shapes; typical Subapennine handle projections, amphorae, jars and large storage containers within the closed shapes and, finally, spindle whorls and loom weights among the terracotta artefacts. Although Punta di Zambrone is substantially a single-phase Recent Bronze Age 2 site, there are a few fragments dating back to Middle Bronze Age 3 (Apennine/Thapsos-Milazzese facies) and to Recent Bronze Age 1. The presence of those more ancient sherds raises some questions about the chronology of the site and of the ‘Ausonian’ invasion in the southern Tyrrhenian region of Italy
Intentions and Childbearing in a Cross-Domain Life Course Approach: The Case of Australia
No full textIn Australia and other affluent societies people tend to report a number of desired children which is clearly higher than the number of children they eventually bear. In the effort to explain such an inconsistency, demographers have studied the correlates of the link between pregnancy intentions and births. Drawing on data from the “Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia” (HILDA) survey, we situate, for the first time, intentions and events in a unified and multidimensional life course framework. We examine the intention-outcome fertility link across a plurality of life course domains and in a genuine couple approach. Education, work, and residence are selected as domains closely related to the family formation process. Results show that pregnancy intentions are often part of a multidimensional life course plan and that the cross-domain effects are gendered and parity specific. Moreover, cross-domain events have stronger influence than cross-domain intentions. A change of residence is directly correlated with a childbirth if it is the outcome of a previous plan and the couple has already made the transition to parenthood. Resumption of studies is inversely correlated with the birth of a child irrespective of whether the event was planned or not by either one of the partners. Finally, a change of job decreases the chance of having a first child but only if experienced by the female partner while it decreases the chance of an additional child only if previously planned or experienced by both partners. Such results confirm the relevance of work-family conflict as one of the drivers of low fertility and outline the usefulness of a holistic life course approach in the analysis of reproductive decision-making
Vergrabene Zeugen der Vergangenheit. Archäologische Funde im Lern- und Gedenkort Schloss Hartheim. VIRUS - Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin|VIRUS. Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin Band 19. Schwerpunkt: Objekte als Quellen der Medizingeschichte|
No full textHartheim Castle was one of six Nazi euthanasia institutions in the German Reich. BetweenMay 1940 and autumn 1944, around 30,000 people were murdered here. These were peoplewith disabilities and mental illnesses but also concentration camp inmates and forced laborers.At the beginning of the 2000s, during excavation work in the garden of Hartheim Castle, severalpits happened to be found in the garden of the castle: on the one hand human bone fragments,ashes, remains of technical equipment and on the other hand personal items, presumably mainlyfrom the possessions of the people who were murdered in Hartheim. Around 8,000 objects wererecovered. They represent an important source for today’s works and tasks at the MemorialSite Hartheim Castle – these are: remembrance, documentation and educational work
Bilingualism in the Cambrai Homily. Medieval Worlds|Movement and Mobility & Ideologies of Translation, III - Volume 13. 2021 medieval worlds Volume 13. 2021|
No full textThe Cambrai Homily (Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 679 [s. viii2] ff. 37rb–38rb) is a short prose homily found between two chapters of the Collectio canonum Hibernensis; as the Homily is incomplete, it has been suggested that it was copied from a stray leaf inserted into the exemplar of the Collectio. The Homily itself is estimated to date to the seventh or first half of the eighth century. More salient for the purpose of this anthology, however, is the fact that the Homily code-switches between Latin and Old Irish. Some claim that this text provides us with the earliest record of continuous Irish prose; as such it has long been an important source for early Irish linguistics, as well as evidence for sermons in the seventh-century Irish Church. Nevertheless, the aspects of code-switching between Old Irish and Latin in the Cambrai Homily remain underexplored. This article provides an assessment of existing perspectives on the relationship between Latin and Old Irish in this homily, and offers a fresh interpretation of the code-switching that takes place
Introduction: The Concept of Tribe in the Anthropology of Yemen. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse|Tribes in Modern Yemen: An Anthology Sammlung Eduard Glaser 18|
No full textThe World Map of the Corpus Pelagianum (BNE, 1513, fol. 1v) and its Strategies of Identification. Medieval Worlds|Movement and Mobility & Ideologies of Translation, III - Volume 13. 2021 medieval worlds Volume 13. 2021|
No full textOne of the manuscripts of the famous Corpus Pelagianum contains a square world map that is simultaneously a genealogical chart of peoples that are descended from the sons of Noah. In combining a geographical imagination of the world with genealogies, this illustration becomes an impressive intellectual achievement of the high medieval Iberian Peninsula and differs considerably from other forms of medieval world maps. In this article the characteristics of this cartographical and genealogical figure will be investigated in general, but also with regard to the map’s context in the manuscript Madrid, BNE, 1513. Hence, the map will be contextualised in relation to the text corpus that follows it and, therefore, its interaction with the textual heritage of Christian-Iberian historical writing, from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, will be illuminated. In particular, the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville were an important source, both for the textual content of this codex and for the information displayed on the map. Accordingly, this article is, after some introductory passages on the composition of the codex BNE 1513, divided into two parts. The first describes the characteristics of the geographical chart and compares them with other contemporary world maps. The second part addresses peoples of the world that appear in this illustration and discusses how their identification correlates with the historiographical texts in BNE 1513. So far, these parallels have not been taken into account in research on this codex
Experts’ Expectations of Future Vulnerability at the Peak of the “Refugee Crisis”
No full textImmigrant inflows in 2015 triggered manifold reactions all over Europe. Questions about the integration capacities of nation states dominated media coverage. Fears of negative consequences for host societies were widespread. But what did experts (scientists, practitioners, and policy-makers) think? Using 203 assessments of experts collected through a questionnaire sent in late 2015 and early 2016, the present article addresses expected effects of refugee flows on future vulnerability in European societies. As many young families and minors are among asylum-seekers, we focused on the expected development of economic, psychological and social vulnerability of families with children. On average, experts assumed that their vulnerability would increase in the context of current and future refugee flows especially in the upcoming years. In line with affectedness by displaced people (i.e. asylum applicants per inhabitant), estimations differed by country. Expected mean increases in vulnerability are largest in German-speaking and Nordic countries. With regard to long-term consequences (until 2050), a rise in social vulnerability seemed most likely indicating experts worry about stigmatisation, discrimination, and social cohesion in European societies
Anhang. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse|Die mittelalterlichen Handschriften in der Bibliothek des Augustiner Chorherrenstiftes Neustift Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 364. Band|
No full textPotential Implications of China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ Strategies on Chinese International Migration
No full textAlong with the flows of China’s foreign direct investment following the newlyimplemented ‘One Belt, One Road’ strategy by the Chinese government will likely generatemovements of state employees, entrepreneurs, workers and accompanying familymembers to respective countries along the Belt and Road. It is not clear how large Chinesemigration flows into these countries will be, who they are, how the public reception of thehost society will be and how well the migrants will be integrated in the destination country.Based on extant data and literature on current Chinese migration, this paper describestrends and patterns of recent Chinese migration in Africa and Asia, analyses host countrypublic perceptions on China and investigates integration patterns of Chinese migrants.Given that the ‘One Belt, One Road’ strategy has only been officially endorsed in 2015, it isstill early to analyse its impacts on Chinese migration in the respective countries.Considering earlier Chinese overseas migration in the past decades, this paper presentspotential migration and integration patterns one may expect following the Belt and Roadinitiative