The Sound of Magic? Bells in Roman Britain

Agriculture in Roman Britain

I F we consider that agriculture employed a majority of the population in non-industrial societies and is still man's staple occupation, we must ad-mit that the agriculture of Roman Britain has concerned archaeologists and historians much less than it should, for on its vicissitudes depended to no small degree the well-being and decline of the province. The existence of Roman 'villas' was first...

Arthritis in Roman Britain.

The pattern of arthritis in Roman Britain was investigated by examining the skeletons of 416 adults from the Roman cemetery at Poundbury Camp near Dorchester, Dorset. The mean height of the people was not much less than that of the current British population, and the prevalence of right handedness was similar to our own. There was a high prevalence of osteoarthritis for such a relatively young ...

Editors sound the SARS alarm bells

'Does this virus have the power to conquer the whole world?' was how the Daily Express flagged one of its first articles on the virus(es) responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). 'As if war and terrorism were not enough, a terrified world now has a new threat to contend with — a mystery illness that is spreading around the world from the Orient,' said the Daily Mail. 'The sympt...

ترجمه کتاب روندهای اساسی در علم زبان the main trends in the science of language رومن یاکوبسن roman jakobson

رومن یاکوبسن (متولد 1896) یکی از نوابغ زبانشناسی مکتب پراگ است او به کمک یار همیشگی خود نیکولای تروبتسکوی (1890-1938) در تعیین خط مشی نهضت ساختگرایی اروپای شرق از همه موثرتر بودند. مهمترین تحقیقات این دو زبان شناسی در دهه قبل از جنگ جهانی دوم انجام گرفت . در زمان جنگ ، بواسطه اشغال چکسلواکی توسط آلمانها، پژوهش این اساتید متوقف گردید. یا کوبسن پس از جنگ کار خود را دنبال کرد و در زمینه واج شناسی ...

A case of dyschondrosteosis from Roman Britain.