Deposition of corpses in the ground is most common burial practice, which can allow interactions between polluting compounds and soil, groundwater, surface water, may afterwards lead to negative environmental impacts risks public health. The risk cemeteries contaminating groundwater related their location, quantity clothes, metals adornments buried, geographical, geological, hydrogeological, cl...

This contribution strives to give an initial overview of various legal frameworks and the connected everyday practices concerning military cemeteries containing remains Croatian soldiers – for most part members Austrian- -Hungarian armed forces situate them within changing political cultural context, including memorial manifestations such as public monuments, individual war memoirs, soldiers' f...

The mobility of the Blemmyes between Nile Valley and Red Sea coast, their skill in trading, are well attested literary sources archaeological record. While they operated mainly Eastern Desert, cemeteries, dated to mid-fourth century ce, were located strategic region Dodekaschoinos Lower Nubia. personal adornments composed beads, but glass imports have not yet been scientifically studied. This p...

The South Texas region has a historical record of occasional dengue outbreaks. The recent introduction of chikungunya virus to the Caribbean suggests that this disease may be a concern as well. Six different cities and three field habitat types (residential, tire shops, and cemeteries) were examined for evidence of habitat and longitudinal preference of two vector species, Aedes aegypti and Aed...

In 1963, as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I wrote a master's thesis on the antecedents of 1921 Kongo prophetism (ngunzisme, after the KiKongo for prophet, ngunza; "Kimbanguism," after the name of the most prominentfprophet, Simon Kimbangu). The thesis pieced together accounts of traditional and new urban cults which sought, through purification and initiation, to fashion an i...