Repeated excavations of the area early Byzantine fort on Žirje, an island in Šibenik archipelago, resulted recovery a substantial amount movable finds, predominantly pottery. Most finds date to period Justinian's reconquista mid-6th century when was used, but there are also some artifacts earlier or later dating (Iron Age, Hellenistic and Imperial periods; medieval postmedieval periods) whose p...

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Domesticated animals formed an important element of farming practices in prehistoric Britain, a fact revealed through the quantity and variety of animal bone typically found at archaeological sites. However, it is not known whether the ruminant animals were raised purely for their tissues (e.g., meat) or alternatively were exploited principally for their milk. Absorbed organic residues from pot...

Three Sitophilus species (S. granarius L., S. oryzae L., and S. zeamais Mots.) are closely related based on DNA analysis of their endosymbionts. All are seed parasites of cereal crops and important economic pest species in stored grain. The Sitophilus species that currently exist, including these three species, are generally believed to be endemic to Asia's forested areas, suggesting that the f...

BACKGROUND Epidemiological evaluations of the risk of silicosis in relation to exposure to crystalline silica have raised the question of whether different types of silica dust exposures vary with respect to their ability to cause silicosis. The aim of this study is to compare the risk of silicosis among cohorts of silica dust-exposed Chinese tin miners, tungsten miners, and pottery workers and...

The British PM Boris Johnson is impressed with the way science ‘liberated’ public from Covid-19. He reported as indicating that never before has people owed so much to sc...