The Stari Slankamen loess-palaeosol section is located on the northeastern part of the Srem Loess Plateau (Vojvodina region, North Serbia). The c. 40-m thick cliff comprises loess intercalated with 9 ...major palaeo pedocomplexes and can be considered to be one of the most important Quaternary sections in the Carpathian (Panonnian) basin. Here we present new magnetostratigraphic and aminostratigraphic evidence that demonstrates the importance of the site in terms of its age and the long-term palaeoclimatic record it preserves.
Directional palaeomagnetic data, obtained through alternating field demagnetization demonstrates the presence of reversed polarity below a profile depth of 36 m indicating a Matuyama chron age of this interval. This interpretation is confirmed by new high resolution palaeomagnetic investigations (434 oriented samples) from the lower part of the profile. The new magnetic susceptibility record and aminostratigraphy indicate a missing pedocomplex (V-S2), with an erosional unconformity represented by a distinct gravel layer. The combined new magnetostratigraphic and aminostratigraphic based age model requires a significant revision of hitherto published chronostratigraphic subdivisions at the site.
The relative completeness and long time frame covered by the section is unusual in European loess sequences. Hence, the sequence could form the basis of a continental scale stratigraphic scheme that would alleviate much current chronostratigraphic uncertainty and enable more broad-scale climatic reconstructions. The section also provides a rare opportunity to investigate detailed and long-term climatic change over the Middle Pleistocene in a region influenced by air masses originating from high and middle latitudes, as well as the North Atlantic and Mediterranean. The changing relative importance of these air masses through time provides insight into local and regional atmospheric systems and their evolution through the last c.1 Ma. The section can thus be considered as one of the key climatic archives in the Europe.
► The relative completeness and age range is unusual in European sequences. ► This is the first detailed, multi-proxy independent age model covering the section. ► Our model provides a significant revision of previous chronostratigraphic model. ► The model constrains a detailed and long-term climatic record over the last 1 Ma. ► The section can be considered as one of the key climatic archives in the Europe.
Recent advances in post-IR IRSL dating have led to breakthroughs in dating upper Middle Pleistocene loess sequences. Here, an elevated temperature post-IR IR protocol using a second IR stimulation ...temperature of 290°C is applied to eleven polymineral fine-grain (4–11μm) samples from the lower part of the Middle–Lower Pleistocene Stari Slankamen loess–palaeosol sequence with the aim of refining the site's age model and investigating the behaviour of both the IR50 and the pIRIR290 signals in material close to or in luminescence signal saturation. Both signals from the 8 samples below the prominent erosion surface represented by a gravel layer at ~13m were found to be in field saturation (i.e. no systematic increase in burial dose with depth). The average ratio of the sensitivity-corrected natural signal to the laboratory saturation level for the pIRIR290 is 1.00±0.03 (n=8) indicating that field saturation is equal to laboratory saturation for this signal. Minimum equivalent dose estimates were calculated from 2*D0 values, giving minimum age estimates of ~230–390ka; this result suggests an upper limit for dating these loess deposits of ~300ka. The age estimate of the younger sample SSK2 is in good agreement with the quartz OSL age, showing that the pIRIR290 signal is bleachable in nature and can be used to date material as young as ~20ka. Our data suggest that the loess unit V-L2 accumulated during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6 and that the erosional event marked by an unconformity and gravel layer between loess units V-L2 and V-L3 has a minimum age of ~170ka. Pedocomplex V-S1 can be correlated with the complete MIS 5 period. Furthermore we suggest a minimum age of ~250ka for the loess unit V-L3 and palaeosols V-S3, V-S4 and V-S5; considerably older than proposed by many previous studies.
•Luminescence dating of Stari Slankamen loess gives ages from 20 ka to >250ka.•Youngest feldspar age supported by quartz age.•Both IR50 and pIRIR290 signals in field saturation in older samples.•PIRIR290 signals from older samples also in laboratory saturation — no fading.
U radu se donose rezultati prvih probnih arheoloških istraživanja na prostoru jugoistočnog predgraða antičkog Fara, danas Stari Grad na otoku Hvaru, gdje su recentna iskopavanja u okviru HRZZ ...AdriaCos projekta (2021. godine) na svjetlo dana iznijela nove podatke o topografiji, stratigrafiji i pokretnim nalazima koji doprinose poznavanju organizacije izvangradskog prostora, smještenoga na samome rubu Starogradskog polja. Dvije faze arhitekture otkrivene u jednoj od istraženih sondi (10A-W), a koje se smještaju u grčko i kasnoantičko razdoblje, te nalaz grčkoga groba pružaju uvid u promjene u korištenju toga izvangradskoga prostora, dok pokretni nalazi ukazuju na prehrambene navike i trgovačke kontakte unutar svakoga od zastupljenih razdoblja.
Prior to the agricultural reform, the free and royal town of Varaždin owned 1.228 jutros of arable land. The agricultural reform divided 1.038 jutros, the army claimed 100 jutros for its needs, ...whereas only 90 jutros were left under the ownership of the Town. Previous to the agricultural reform, in the war year of 1917, money received from the lease of the land made up more than 5 percent of the town income. However, having entered the new state union and due to the introduction of the agricultural reform as well as new and higher taxes in 1923, the land lease revenue made up barely 0,2 percent of the town budget. A buyer could enter expropriated land of the Town of Varaždin into the land register only when reimbursement had been payed off, and he also had to build a house there within the next three years. Farmers obtained the land on a temporary one-year lease. Having taken everything into consideration, the agricultural reform failed to increase prosperity, on the contrary, it brought along direct financial losses for the Town of Varaždin. Namely, in March 1939, during a Municipal Council sitting members commented that the Town of Varaždin ceased to be the administration centre of the northern Croatia due to the loss of financial directive and county jurisdiction, whereas it also lost significant financial income due to the seizure of large amounts of land for the agricultural reform. For the purpose of illustration, it would be interesting to see where the properties owned by the Town of Varaždin were located; however, due to the large number of cadastral parcels, its drawing is beyond the scope of this paper.
Regarding the seniorate possession of the Stari grad, Rudolf II Habsburg gave it to count Toma Erdödy and his heirs who managed the property up to the first half of the 20th century. As opposed to the property belonging to the Town of Varaždin, in this case, the number of cadastral parcels is smaller and therefore it was be possible to make an illustration depicting the surface it occupied in the area of the Town of Varaždin. The seniorate possession belonging to the counts of Erdödy was smaller than the then Town of Varaždin and consisted of 1.091 jutros of land. After the agrarian reform had been conducted, 825 cadastral jutros remained. Moreover, the process caused conflicts within the Erdödy family and short time after they vanished from Varaždin.
Applying geochemical proxies as measure for the weathering intensity of paleosols and sediments such as loess, the Quaternary scientist is confronted with various element ratios that have been ...proposed in literature. This paper gives an overview on the principle of geochemical weathering indices. Different types of indices are evaluated with respect to the suitability for loess–paleosol sequences, regarding the special characteristics of this type of sediments and paleosols. Case examples in this study are key sections in Southeastern and Eastern Europe: the loess–paleosol sequences Batajnica/Stari Slankamen (Serbia), Mircea Voda (Romania) and Stary Kaydaky (Ukraine), which represent archives of the Late and Mid-Pleistocene climate change of the region. Considering element behavior during weathering or diagenesis, the Chemical Proxy of Alteration (CPA) – i.e. the molar ratio Al
2O
3/(Al
2O
3 + Na
2O) × 100 – is proposed as the most appropriate index for silicate weathering. The CPA was evaluated against commonly used weathering indices including the “Chemical Index of Alteration” (CIA), the “Chemical Index of Weathering“ (CIW), the “Plagioclase Index of Alteration“ (PIA), the Index B of Kronberg and Nesbitt, and the Ba/Sr and Rb/Sr ratio. Depth profiles of “Sr-type indices” (e.g. Ba/Sr, Rb/Sr) are likely to be influenced by the dynamics of secondary carbonate. On the other hand, common “Na-type indices” (e.g. CIA, PIA, CIW) may suffer from uncertainties in separating carbonate–Ca from silicate–Ca or from biases due to K-fixation (illitization). The CPA is insensitive against such effects. Additionally, using the CPA (as with other Na-type indices) provides the possibility to evaluate the homogeneity of the parent material regarding the relevant host minerals via the A–CN–K diagram.
U razdoblju od veljače 2022. godine do siječnja 2023. godine provodila se druga godina uspostavnog istraživačkog projekta Transformiranje jadranskog kozmosa: otočnost, povezanost i glokalni ...identiteti predrimske Dalmacije (AdriaCos) (HRZZ UIP-2020-02-2419). Ovaj petogodišnji projekt financiran je od strane Hrvatske zaklade za znanost a provodi se u Institutu za arheologiju u Zagrebu od veljače 2021. godine (voditeljica dr. sc. Marina Ugarković). U drugoj projektnoj godini nastavljeno je obavljanje različitih interdisciplinarnih terenskih, istraživačkih i diseminacijskih aktivnosti, koje su bile usmjerene na niz istraživačkih pitanja čija je os fokusirana na transformacijske procese otoka Hvara i srednjeg Jadrana tijekom 1. tisućljeća pr. Kr.
Prilog donosi biblijsku bibliografiju na hrvatskom jeziku. Prije svega radi se o hrvatskim bibličarima, ali su uključeni i drugi autori, oni koji su objavljivali u hrvatskim časopisima na nekom ...stranom jeziku. Radi se o sljedećim časopisima, tjednicima/mjesečnicima, iz Hrvatske, Bosne i Hercegovine te Srbije: Biblija danas, Biblijski pogledi, Bogoslovska smotra, Communio, Crkva na kamenu, Crkva u svijetu, Diacovensia, Filologija, Hercegovina Franciscana, Kairos, Kana, Katolički tjednik, Kvarnerski vez, Nova prisutnost, Obnovljeni život, Pannoniana, The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II, Psychiatria Danubia, Riječki teološki časopis, Služba Božja, Svjetlo riječi, Veritas, Vjesnik Đakovačko-osječke nadbiskupije, Vrhbosnensia, Zvonik i Živo vrelo. Uz stručne časopise donosimo i priloge iz tjednika/mjesečnika, koji su namijenjeni široj publici. Prilog se sastoji od ukupno deset (10) dijelova: 1. Izdanja Biblije (7 x); 2. Prigodna izdanja Biblije (13 x); 3. Monografije (21 x); 4. Dokumenti (1 x); 5. Propovijedi (2 x); 6. Elektronička građa (7 x); 7. Zbornici (10 x); 7.1. Prilozi u zbornicima (25 x); 8. Prilozi u stručnim časopisima znanstvenog karaktera /A1, A2…/ (67 x); 9. Prilozi iz tjednika i mjesečnika… (185 x); 10. Ostalo (1 x). Slični su prilozi objavljivani u Crkvi u svijetu, 2016. g., 2019., 2022. Prilog je nastavak istog „projekta“ kako bi se zainteresiranima olakšalo traženje dotičnih naslova, a obuhvaća, kako sam naslov kaže, godišta 2021. i 2022.
U uvodnom dijelu ovoga rada autor naglašava vrijednost i važnost narativnosti teksta Staroga zavjeta, prije svega da se istakne neposrednost i otvorenost u starozavjetnoj narativnosti, gdje se u ...obliku pripovijesti bez zadrške i sasvim otvoreno progovara o realnim životnim problemima. Slijedom toga otvaraju se pitanja i poimanja braka i bračne zajednice u starozavjetnom tekstu i kontekstu. Analizira se vokabular i pojmovnik. U drugom dijelu rada autor se usredotočuje na probleme bračnih i obiteljskih zajednica, bračnih razmirica onako kako to nalazimo u starozavjetnim tekstovima, uzimajući za primjer nekoliko biblijskih brakova i njihovih bračnih izazova.
In the introduction, the author emphasizes the significance and the importance of the narrative nature of the Old Testament text. This is with the purpose of emphasizing the directness and openness of the Old Testament narrative, where realistic life issues are openly and unapologetically discussed in the form of a story. Consequently, this raises the issues of understanding marriage and the marital union in the text and context of the Old Testament. The vocabulary and the language are analyzed. In the second part of the paper, the author focuses on the problems pertaining to marital and family communities; to marital disputes as we see them in the OT, using several Biblical marriages and the challenges they faced as examples.
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