Archaeological research in Pelagonia (North Macedonia) has undergone afresh restart over the past decade after being paused for several decades. In this article we present the results of an ...archaeological excavation at the location Školska Tumba in the village of Mogila, carried out by the Macedonian-Slovenian team in 2014. These results significantly enriched the existing knowledge on Neolithic settlement of this area as well as medieval activities at prehistoric tell settlements in general in the region.
New, high-precision 40Ar/39Ar ages from volcanic rocks in northwestern Kenya are provided for some areas of exposure in this remote area. We report seven 40Ar/39Ar ages generated from single crystal ...total fusion experiments on alkali feldspar separated from volcanic rocks in the Mogila, Songot, and Lokwanamur Ranges and the Gatome valley. A rhyolite from the lower part of the sequence in the Mogila Range yielded ages of 32.31 ± 0.06 Ma and 32.33 ± 0.07 Ma, and a rhyolite near the top of that sequence yielded 31.67 ± 0.04 Ma. A single sample from the Songot Range yielded an age of 32.49 ± 0.07 Ma, slightly older than the rocks collected from Mogila. In both ranges the early Oligocene rhyolites are underlain by basalts, as is also the case in the Labur Range. Ages of 25.95 ± 0.03 Ma, 25.91 ± 0.04 Ma, and 27.15 ± 0.03 Ma were measured on alkali feldspar from rhyolites from the Lokwanamur Range, and the nearby Gatome valley. All of these rocks are part of an episode of widespread volcanism in northwestern Kenya in the mid-to late Oligocene that is not currently known from the Ethiopian Rift Valley.
•Rhyolites of Mogila and Songot, Turkana, Kenya are of early Oligocene age (∼32 Ma).•Rhyolites of Lokwanamur and Gatome, Turkana, Kenya are of Oligocene age (26–27 Ma).•The Lotikipi synformal structure is broader (∼140 km) than previously depicted (∼85 km).•Basaltic, then rhyolitic volcanism was widespread in northwest Kenya 26–32 Ma ago.
Alexander I. Pereswetoff-Morath:"Bishop of Ingria and All the Sea-Coast of the Northern Ocean": The Smooth Operations of Athenogenes Kryžanovskij
The paper treats the short "Ingrian" period in the ...life of the Belorussian monastic Athenogenes (Anfinogen) Kryžanovskij (fl. 1629-68), a man known to scholarship mainly from his adventurous involvement in Muscovite and Ruthenian church affairs. He is identified as the mysterious archbishop "Arfimager" of Ingria (known from 1638/9), one of of a mere couple of attested Orthodox hierarchs in that Swedish province, and as Aaron "Semblicenscoi", "archimandrite of Nazareth", whose epistle to the Ingrian Orthodox in 1651 was to add to the clash between local Lutherans and Orthodox during the Russian-Swedish war of 1656-8 when discovered by local authorities in 1656. The identifications explain several of the outlandish titles bestowed upon Athenogenes in a satirical poem by his countryman Symeon Polockij and throw light on aspects of Orthodox life in Swedish Ingria.
The paper treats the short “Ingrian” period in the life of the Belorussian monastic Athenogenes (Anfinogen) Kryžanovskij (fl. 1629–68), a man known to scholarship mainly from his adventurous ...involvement in Muscovite and Ruthenian church affairs. He is identified as the mysterious archbishop “Arfimager” of Ingria (known from 1638/9), one of of a mere couple of attested Orthodox hierarchs in that Swedish province, and as Aaron “Semblicenscoi”, “archimandrite of Nazareth”, whose epistle to the Ingrian Orthodox in 1651 was to add to the clash between local Lutherans and Orthodox during the Russian–Swedish war of 1656–8 when discovered by local authorities in 1656. The identifications explain several of the outlandish titles bestowed upon Athenogenes in a satirical poem by his countryman Symeon Polockij and throw light on aspects of Orthodox life in Swedish Ingria.
Isocapnia mogila, a rare winter stonefly, is found in good numbers in Humboldt County, California. In the 50 years since this species was described, very few specimens were recorded from only 4 sites ...in California and Oregon. Emergence seems to be higher in the fall and early winter than in the late winter and spring.
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