The multidisciplinary Albalat Project launched in 2009 aims to document a small fortified Islamic establishment, mentioned by textual sources as early as the second half of the 10th century. The site ...of Albalat became a strategic target for Christian troops due to its location, leading to its siege and systematic destruction in 1142. Its exceptional condition of complete abandonment offers a valuable record of daily life in the Almoravid era. The material culture of this period is, so far, poorly known.In the site, "House 1" was the first to have been excavated. The collapse of the house allowed the in situ conservation of an abundance of material as well as the preservation of numerous bioarchaeological remains. Some of the architectural characteristics as well as the quality of the archaeological material led us to think that its inhabitants might have had a notable status. For this reason, we decided to synthesize all zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical (charcoal fragments and seeds) data available for this part of the site, in order to document the lifestyle of the inhabitants, and to investigate the resources they consumed as well as the types of environments exploited to produce these resources. Based on the bioarchaeological results, it appears the inhabitants of House 1 had access to a wide diversity of resources from the different environmental contexts probably available near the site (open fields, forest, riverbanks and the river itself). Though diverse, the species encountered in House 1 do not reveal a special or higher status of its inhabitants and are, on the contrary, common in the medieval Muslim settlements of the peninsula.
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The aim of this research was to assess the effect of soil contamination with titanium (Ti) and iron (Fe) at military sites in Ukraine using the avoidance and reproduction tests with
(springtail). The ...soil used for the tests was sampled in 2017 from Dolyna, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine from two plots, namely a contaminated and a control site. The sample site is a former military site previously used for tank training. At the control site mainly the concentrations of Ti and Fe were exceeded. The control soil was free from contamination. The avoidance test and reproduction test were conducted with the use of springtail species
. The following nine levels of contamination with heavy metals were established: 1%, 1.5%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. The duration of the avoidance test was 7 days, and that of the reproduction test was 28 days. Overall, the results show that the avoidance and reproduction tests with collembolans have the potential to be used as screening tools in an ecological risk assessment of heavy metals. In the avoidance test, the concentrations from 1.5 to 100% significantly decreased the number of
in the contamination site in comparison to the control site. At the same time, avoidance was not observed in the first concentration (1%). According to the reproduction test, the negative effect on the number of
juveniles was observed beginning at the 10% dose. The half maximal effective concentration (EC50) for the avoidance test was 50.12%, while that for the reproduction test was 22.39%. The contamination with heavy metals at the military areas indicated the short- and long-term toxicity risk on the springtail
The Korean Federation of Teachers Association, the Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, and the Korea Ministry of National Defense (KMND) concluded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) ...on opening military sites to elementary, middle, and high school students to strengthen national security consciousness. According to the MOU, the KMND decided to open an active firing range; however, due to the ongoing firing activity, site contamination by toxic energetic materials (EMs) was suspected. To identify whether opening the firing range might pose a human health threat to the students and their teachers visiting the site, we conducted a risk assessment to evaluate potential risk. The risk assessment results revealed that both cancer risk and non-cancer risk were negligible. The potential cancer risk was in the range of 1.9 × 10–¹¹ and 1.4 × 10–¹⁰, and the potential non-cancer hazard index was in the range of 2.3 × 10–⁶ and 4.9 × 10–⁶.
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The ideological clash opposing Eastern and Western Europe from the beginning of the 20th century till the end of the 80s resulted in the north-east of Italy being one of the heaviest military ...structures of the world. A dense grid of bunkers, military sites, barracks, explosives sites, training and aviation camps, spread throughout the country, made a reality the idea of a landscape as a strategic scenario. Friuli Venezia Giulia, the region more affected by this system, has seen 50% of its area influenced by easement for military purposes and counts today 102km2 of military zones. After 1989, wide parts of its region, in urban, agricultural or natural context - historically separated from everyday life and its use - suddenly lost their function and moved towards a state of neglect and degradation. We are facing the collapse of an entire system that has influenced for several years the whole region and further afield.
This study focuses on the requests immediately after the WWII from universities located in Tokyo to use former military buildings. The followings are conclusions in this study. 80% of the requests ...were from the universities that were damaged by air raids. More than half of the requests had long distances from the original campus. 75% of the requests were to former military schools, barracks, and laboratories. Only 15% of the requests were realized. Some requests were realized due to the connections with former army officers and illegal occupation. Most of realized requests were realized by October 1945. To obtain huge former military sites contributed to development for universities later.
Air‐Photography Kennedy, David L
A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East,
12/2021
Book Chapter
The First World War gave an enormous impetus to reconnaissance, photography, and air‐photo interpretation which was carried over into peacetime by archaeologists who had seen its potential. Aerial ...reconnaissance and photography were swiftly applied in the Near Eastern theatres, from Gallipoli to Persia. The scale of aerial photography during the First World War is staggering – and massively surpassed in the Second. In the postwar period, there were immense numbers of aerial photographs, thousands of aerial cameras and large numbers of people who had worked routinely with aerial photographs and often acquired expertise. The RAF undertook aerial photography over the frontier region with Vichy Syria. Southern Syria and Jordan offer additional forms of military site – those in which forts are part of an extensive settlement. Aerial photographs of Antioch allowed something of the planned landscape beyond the city to be defined and suggested the original Hellenistic cadastral system.
In the course of research by the Austrian Archaeological Institute
(ÖAW) between 2008 and 2017 in the area of the Amber Road in
eastern Austria, a military camp dating to the early imperial period
...was discovered near Strebersdorf, from which 452 coin finds
were recovered by means of detector survey. Findings of coins
from the region date back more than 100 years, published in 1984
in the series Die Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Österreich
(FMRÖ). In the following, the finds from the survey will be analysed
numismatically, focusing at first on the question of the beginning
of military presence on site. Furthermore, the development
of the settlement up to the 4th century is traced, and the
end of coin circulation and settlement activity is also examined.
The beginning of coin circulation in Strebersdorf can be determined
as falling in late Augustan / early Tiberian times, which
suggests that the earliest military camp was established in the
wake of the expansions under Augustus, and probably in close
connection with the Pannonian Revolt (6–9 AD). In late Tiberian
/ early Claudian times, the coin supply broke up, and obviously
the camp was abandoned. After this, the coin finds no longer occur
in the core area of the former military camp, but shift to the
vicus, which takes a clear upswing from the times of Trajan and
Hadrian onwards. A renewed military presence from Hadrian onwards
is suggested not only by increasing numbers of coin finds,
but also by the facts that the Amber Road, as a supply road to the
Danube, had to be secured, and that local iron mining was being
conducted. The settlement seems also to have participated
in the general economic upswing in the Severan period. From
then on, the finds occur almost exclusively in the area of the
street settlement, which apparently developed as an economic
centre. In the 4th century, too, uninterrupted development can
be expected, with an absolute peak of monetary activity being
reached in the 2nd half of the century.
In the later part of the Second World War, German troops were responsible for a front of nearly a thousand kilometers in Lapland, Northern Finland. The Germans built close to 100 prisoner of war and ...labor camps in the area, and imprisoned some 30,000 Russian soldiers there. Since Lapland’s infrastructure was very poor, the prisoners were used as a workforce for tasks such as building and improving roads and bridges. The prison camps and military bases, as well as their archives, were almost completely destroyed during the German retreat from Finland, in 1944–1945, in the Lapland War between the Finns and the Germans. In this chapter we report on preliminary fieldwork at the German base of Peltojoki, and we discuss how archaeology can contribute to the study and understanding of military sites from the recent past.
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