Flowering plants possess mechanisms that stimulate positive emotional and social responses in humans. It is difficult to establish when people started to use flowers in public and ceremonial events because of the scarcity of relevant evidence in the archaeological record. We report on uniquely preserved 13,700-11,700-y-old grave linings made of flowers, suggesting that such use began much earli...

Accurate determination of both the post mortem and post-burial interval (PMI/PBI) of a clandestine grave of a homicide victim is critical for forensic investigators to link or eliminate suspect(s). Currently, detection rates worldwide are low using a variety of search methods, ranging from simple ground probing and use of scent-trained search dogs, to more advanced remote imagery analysis and n...

Excavation of mock graves in sediments of aeolian and fluvial origin were conducted to test the bleaching efficiency of grave digging in materials that commonly host ancient burials in Australia. Grave-size pits were dug into Pleistocene aeolian sediments at Willandra Lakes and younger fluvial sediments on the Lachlan River, backfilled, and re-excavated. Samples for optical dating were taken fr...

Evolutionary theory, in consort with Marxism and processualism, provides new insights into the interpretation of grave-good variation. Processual interpretations of burial sites in the American Southwest cite age, sex, or social rank as the main determinants of burial-good variation. Marxist theorists suggest that mortuary ritual mediates social tension between an egalitarian mindset and an exi...

A large Eastern Central Sweden dialect area, including the Sorunda dialect, is traditionally characterized by a generlized grave tonal word accent which, according to informal observations, is in decline. The present paper reports the results of a preliminary auditory analysis of word accent use in three generations of Sorunda speakers. Using recordings of spontaneous speech, it was found that ...

The activities of the 18th century body-snatchers are among the most lurid and entertaining episodes in the history of medicine and have been cataloged exhuastively by scholars and popularizers of all kinds. Today, however, when the ethics of research on humans has become a critical problem in medical philosophy and when relations between the public and the profession appear to be deteriorating...

Nous rapportons le cas d'une patiente de 34 ans, qui a comme antécédents une cholécystite et une pancréatite il y a 4 ans. Elle a présenté depuis 1 mois et demi une éruption papuleuse prurigineuse généralisée. L'examen dermatologique a objectivé de multiples petites papules jaunâtres entourées par endroits d'un halo inflammatoire, disséminées sur le tronc et les membres. L'étude histologique a ...

Eicosanoid signaling plays key pro-inflammatory roles during tissue damage. Now, Enyedi et al. show that swelling of nuclei in cell corpses activates eicosanoid signaling to recruit leukocytes to sites of tissue damage. The enhanced membrane tension in swollen nuclei directly promotes calcium-dependent translocation and activation of enzymes involved in eicosanoid biosynthesis.

Are the original Roelofs effect and the induced Roelofs effect confounded by the same expansion of remembered space? Roelofs (1935) first described a perceptual phenomenon in which an observer, when viewing a large rectangular frame whose center is positioned to the left or right of the objective midline, will underestimate the degree to which the frame is offset. More recently, Bridgeman, Peer...

London (IP).—Construction workers renovating an 18th press conference here. ‘‘In addition, samples from the spine century church in south London this week uncovered the grave submitted to the Microbiology Research Institute of Cambridge site of Timothy Cratchit, the popular figure of Charles Dickens’ have tested positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis by polyA Christmas Carol. Archaeologists an...