up to now, various graveyards from iron age in the west central zagros have been examined and some burial goods specific to women have been found. however, researchers have only described the data obtained not dealing with the issue of women’s rank in this period. this is due to the fact that among the buried objects any inscription related to these graves has not been found. moreover, women st...

Harvest of orchid tubers for salep production is widespread in southwestern Asia and the Balkans and constitutes a major conservation risk for wild orchid populations. Synanthropic habitats, such as graveyards, are important refuges for orchids and other organisms and could offer protection from salep harvesting because of their special cultural role. However, little is known about the occurren...

The interment of stillborn infants in later medieval burial grounds stands at odds with Catholic Church Law, which forbade the inclusion unbaptised children within consecrated ground. When perinatal remains occur graveyards, their interpretation can be problematic. Did they live to baptised, or do such examples represent clandestine burials? Historical documents indicate that some parents disob...

Cremation was one of the permissible burial practices in Linear Pottery Culture (LPC). This treatment has largely remained unexplained by previous research Central Europe due to its descriptive nature. As a result, we present several thoughts on some key issues here. First, discuss current state Europe, as well specifics with regard LPC and cremation. Second, focus two graveyards exclusively or...

Artifacts of cold-hammered native gold have been discovered in a secure and undisturbed Terminal Archaic burial context at Jiskairumoko, a multicomponent Late Archaic-Early Formative period site in the southwestern Lake Titicaca basin, Peru. The burial dates to 3776 to 3690 carbon-14 years before the present (2155 to 1936 calendar years B.C.), making this the earliest worked gold recovered to d...

Impact of ozone observations on the structure of a tropical cyclone using coupled atmosphere–chemistry data assimilation S. Lim, S. K. Park, and M. Zupanski Department of Atmospheric Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Center for Climate/Environment Change ...

8 Asia Pacific Foundation for Infectious Diseases (APFID), Seoul, Korea 9 Medical Research Institute, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea 10 Division of Infectious Diseases, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University 11 School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 12 Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, 13 Sungkyunkwan University School of M...

8 Asia Pacific Foundation for Infectious Diseases (APFID), Seoul, Korea 9 Medical Research Institute, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea 10 Division of Infectious Diseases, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University 11 School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 12 Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, 13 Sungkyunkwan University School of M...

10 1 Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, 11 Republic of Korea; 2 Department of Environmental Health Research, National Institute of 12 Environmental Research, Incheon, Republic of Korea; 3 Department of Food Science and 13 Technology, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 4 Department of 14 Environmental Health, Seoul National Un...