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Some Principles and Continuities of Tribal Law. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse|Tribes in Modern Yemen: An Anthology Sammlung Eduard Glaser 18|
No full textAssessment of the Data Quality in Demographic and Health Surveys in Egypt
No full textThe aim of this paper is to check the quality of fertility data collected through Demographic and Health Surveys in Egypt between 1988 and 2014. We are particularly interested to assess whether fertility changes observed since 2000 that point at a stall in fertility decline followed by a substantial increase between 2008 and 2014 are real and not due to imperfect data. We show through several exercises that data quality has increased since the first Demographic and Health Survey in 1988 and that the data imperfections do not explain the fertility trajectories in Egypt
From the Aegean to the Ionian Sea: Pottery, Technology and People in the Plain of Sybaris in the Late Bronze Age. Orea|Punta di Zambrone I Oriental and European Archaeology Volume 17|
No full textThe Plain of Sybaris, in north-eastern Calabria, is one of the most important regions in Italy where it is possible to study the interactions between local people and Aegean-area traders and craftsmen in the Middle and Late Bronze Age. The combined use of systematic archaeological and archaeometric analyses, carried out especially on pottery from Broglio di Trebisacce and Torre Mordillo, has been fundamental for the investigation into the development of a local production of Mycenaean-type pottery. This Italo-Mycenaean production is oriented towards tableware that is often organised in sets of drinking vessels. There is no doubt that this is a specialised type of pottery production; one of the most controversial and challenging issues is how to connect the development of this specialised craftsmanship to the general organisation of local communities. Many studies concerning the introduction of technological novelties and craft specialisation, especially in the field of pottery production, propose that they arose not for practical or techno-economical convenience but for symbolic and social reasons connected to demand from the elite. It therefore seems necessary to analyse the phenomenon of Italo-Mycenaean pottery – and other Aegean-inspired wares – within a discussion which takes into account the political economy of local communities
A Habsburg Thalassocracy: Habsburgs and Hospitallers in the Early Modern Mediterranean, c. 1690–1750. Archiv für Österreichische Geschichte|The Habsburg Mediterranean 1500–1800|
No full textNote esegetiche a quattro passi di Ammiano Marcellino. Wiener Studien|Wiener Studien 134 134|
No full textThe year 2018 saw the Dutch scholars’ philological and historical commentary onAmmianus Marcellinus eventually reach Book XXXI. These volumes will remain a seminalreference work in the times to come. The best way to honour the outstanding achievement ofthe Dutch commentators is to keep on bringing Ammianean exegesis to further depth. Here weare going to read anew four passages of Ammianus (22,8,31 and 41; 27,5,6; 31,2) in order tosharpen our understanding of his methods and his perspective as a historian and a literaryauthor. Those passages concern 1) the tribes anachronistically living around Lake Maeotis, 2)the Sindi called meaningfully ignobiles and advisedly put in the wrong place of northern BlackSea, 3) the strange appearance of the ethnonym Greuthungi (exonym of the Eastern Goths),instead of the right one Tervingi (exonym of the Lower Danube Goths), in the first Gothic warof Valens, 4) the ethnographic digression on Alans and Huns as well as its substantial veracity
Anhang. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Medizin|Ernst Fuchs und die Weltgeltung der Wiener Ophthalmologischen Schule um 1900 Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Medizin 69|
No full text50 Jahre Keltenmuseum Hallein. Fundort – Forschung – Vermittlung. Archaeologia Austriaca|Archaeologia Austriaca Band 105/2021 Band 105/2021|
No full textIm Jahr 2020 feierte das Keltenmuseum Hallein sein 50-jähriges Jubiläum. Als eines der bedeutendsten archäologischen Fundortmuseen Europas zeigt es die spektakulären Funde der Salzmetropole auf dem Dürrnberg, die im Netzwerk der europäischen Eisenzeit als wirtschaftliche Drehscheibe und kultureller Impulsgeber diente. Die bis zu 2500 Jahre alten Relikte aus Siedlungen, Gräbern und Salzbergwerken stehen seit jeher im Fokus der „Archäologie der Kelten“ und sind programmatischer Namensgeber des 1970 eröffneten Museums. Seine Wurzeln gehen indes bis in die Tage des ersten bildungsbürgerlichen Engagements für Lokalgeschichte und Archäologie zurück. Als Halleiner Heimatmuseum und erstes Museum im Land Salzburg in den 1830er-Jahren etabliert, war die Institution bis in das 20. Jh. vor allem der jüngeren Geschichte der Salinenstadt verpflichtet und entwickelte sich erst seit den 1950er-Jahren zum archäologischen Museums- und Forschungszentrum, das heute inoffiziell als Salzburger Zentralmuseum für Urgeschichte firmiert. Als Forschungsinstitution in der Tradition des Österreichischen Forschungszentrums Dürrnberg verfolgt die mit dem Museum assoziierte Dürrnbergforschung internationale und interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Aufarbeitungsprojekte und Forschungsinitiativen in der Gräber- und Siedlungsarchäologie sowie der Archäometrie
10th ICAANE. Orea|Archaeology of Central Asia during the 1st millennium BC, from the Beginning of the Iron age to the Hellenistic period Oriental and European Archaeology Volume 18|
No full textDie lokale Energiewende planen (ITA Dossier Nr.58, November 2021)
No full text -> Die Energiewende erfordert auch auf lokaler und regionaler Ebene umfassende Veränderungen, die soziale Regeln, Infrastrukturen und Technologien umfassen. -> Backcasting ist eine Form der qualitativen Szenarioanalyse, die für die Planung von lokalen Veränderungsprozessen einen wichtigen Beitrag leisten kann. -> In einem Beispiel wurden für die Stadt Korneuburg normative Szenarien für das Jahr 2036 erstellt und konkrete Strategien und Maßnahmen abgeleitet. -> Backcasting zeigt unterschiedliche Zukünfte auf, erweitets den lokalen Handlungsspielraum und hilft zeitliche Prioritäten zu setzen.<br
Monthly Estimates of the Quantum of Fertility: Towards a Fertility Monitoring System in Austria
No full textShort-term variations in fertility and seasonal patterns of childbearing have been of interestto demographers for a long time. Presenting our detailed study of period fertility in Austriasince 1984, we discuss the problems and advantages of constructing and analysing variousperiod fertility indicators that reflect real exposure and potentially minimise the distortionscaused by changes in fertility timing. We correct monthly birth data for calendar andseasonal factors and show that seasonality of births in Austria varies by birth order. Ourstudy reveals that the methods explicitly aimed at adjusting fertility rates for tempodistortions are not suitable for computing monthly fertility rates. However, most of thetiming distortions can be eliminated when using an indicator derived from the period parityprogression ratios based on birth interval distributions, termed the Period Average Parity(PAP). We illustrate the insights gained from PAP and compare it with the commonly usedtotal fertility rates in an analysis of the recent upswing in period fertility, starting in the late2001. This investigation will serve for establishing a monitoring of monthly fertility ratesin Austria