The Documentation Centre for African Studies: an overview of the scope of research themes in the archival accessions in the Unisa Library     

Marié Coetzee 《African Historical Review》2013,45(1):153-161

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Some Significant Recent Books in the Field of Romance Languages and Literatures     

José Belmonte-serrano  Rancesc García-cardona 《Romance Quarterly》2013,60(3):139-144

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Human rights and Nietzsche     

André Mineau 《History of European Ideas》2013,39(1-6):877-882

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Jo Buckberry  Janet Montgomery  Jacqueline Towers  Gundula Müldner  Malin Holst  Jane Evans  Andrew Gledhill  Naomi Neale  Julia Lee‐Thorp 《Oxford Journal of Archaeology》2014,33(4):413-434

Historical, artefactual and place‐name evidence indicates that Scandinavian migrants moved to eastern England in the ninth century AD, settling in the Danelaw. However, only a handful of characteristically Scandinavian burials have been found in the region. One, widely held, explanation is that most of these Scandinavian settlers quickly adopted local Christian burial customs, thus leaving Scandinavians indistinguishable from the Anglo‐Saxon population. We undertook osteological and isotopic analysis to investigate the presence of first‐generation Scandinavian migrants. Burials from Masham were typical of the later Anglo‐Saxon period and included men, women and children. The location and positioning of the four adult burials from Coppergate, however, are unusual for Anglo‐Scandinavian York. None of the skeletons revealed interpersonal violence. Isotopic evidence did not suggest a marine component in the diet of either group, but revealed migration on a regional, and possibly an international, scale. Combined strontium and oxygen isotope analysis should be used to investigate further both regional and Scandinavian migration in the later Anglo‐Saxon period.  相似文献   

    

Mike Mccarthy  Marion Archibald  Colleen Batey  Catherine Batt  Catherine Brooks  Jo Buckberry 《考古杂志》2014,171(1):185-257

Excavations in 1988 revealed a stratigraphic sequence extending from the later Roman period to the twelfth century. Of particular interest and importance is a collection of Viking-Age metalwork which, with other material, sheds light on settlement in Carlisle before the arrival of the Normans in 1092.  相似文献   

    

Inmaculada C. Álvarez  Ángel M. Prieto  José L. Zofío 《European Planning Studies》2014,22(6):1235-1258

Relying on stochastic frontier analysis we propose a methodology to study the technological characteristics and cost efficiency levels related to the provision of public infrastructure for basic utilities. The methodology assumes a cost minimizing behaviour on the part of public officials when planning the construction of local infrastructure, which is represented by way of a flexible translog cost function. Introducing relevant definitions of scale economies, associated with larger numbers of inhabitants and dwellings, as well as economies of density, brought about by reductions in urban dispersion, we analytically determine the optimal population densities for which average cost is minimized. We illustrate our model with the water cycle sector, including water distribution, sewage collection and cleansing of wastewater, and considering data at the municipality level for the Spanish region of Castilla y León. The obtained results indicate potential cost savings in the form of decreasing average costs, as relevant scale and density economies are present, along with large inefficiency levels. Relevant policy guidelines favouring larger and denser urban sizes are drawn, as the observed cost excess is the result of a general suboptimal urban size in terms of population density, and the negative effects of dispersed settlement patterns.  相似文献   

    

André Torre 《European Planning Studies》2015,23(4):641-649

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Andreas Angourakis  José Ignacio Santos  José Manuel Galán  Andrea L. Balbo 《Environmental Archaeology》2015,20(4):349-363

Abstract

A consistent access to food is paramount for humans at individual and group level. Besides providing the basic nutritional needs, access to food defines social structures and has stimulated innovation in food procurement, processing and storage. We focus on the social aspects of food storage, namely the role of cooperation for the emergence and maintenance of common stocks. Cooperative food stocks are examined here as a type of common-pool resource, where appropriators must cooperate to avoid shortage (i.e. the tragedy of commons). ‘Food for all’ is an agent-based model in which agents face the social dilemma of whether or not to store in a cooperative stock, adapting their strategies through a simple reinforcement learning mechanism. The model provides insights on the evolution of cooperation in terms of storage efficiency and considering the presence of social norms that regulate reciprocity. For cooperative food storage to emerge and be maintained, a significant dependency on the stored food and some degree of external pressure are needed. In fact, cooperative food storage emerges as the best performing strategy when facing environmental stress. Likewise, an intermediate control over reciprocity favours cooperation for food storage, suggesting that concepts of closed reciprocity are precursors to cooperative stocks, while excess control over reciprocity is detrimental for such institution.  相似文献   

Basic values of Western industrial society: Feedback effect on rationality     

André Mineau 《History of European Ideas》2013,39(4-6):957-961

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Josep Ramon Llobera (1939–2010)     

Joan Bestard Camps  João de Pina‐Cabral 《Anthropology today》2011,27(1):27-27

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