A Prehistoric Site at Kimble, S. Bucks

Simultaneous measurements of new particle formation at 1 s time resolution at a street site and a rooftop site

This study is the first to use two identical Fast Mobility Particle Sizers for simultaneous measurement of particle number size distributions (PNSDs) at a street site and a rooftop site within 500 m distance in wintertime and springtime to investigate new particle formation (NPF) in Beijing. The collected datasets at 1 s time resolution allow deduction of the freshly emitted traffic particle si...

On an Outbreak of Typhoid Fever at Wing, Bucks

An application having been made at St. George's Hospital in the middle of February last, that a physician should visit the village of Wing for the purpose of investigating its sanitary condition, I undertook to go there, and devoted February 16th and the following day to the inquiry. The parish of Wing consisted at the last census of 1502 inhabitants, of whom one-third is scattered through four...

The Prehistoric hand pictures at Gargas: attempts at simulation

A number of experimental methods of reconstructing prehistoric hand images like those in the cave of Gargas, France, are described and assessed. The results of experiments using these methods are evaluated from the point of view of the bearing they have on our knowledge about the creation of the original pictures in the cave.

A Prehistoric Revolution

Excavations at the Prehistoric Sites of Tepe Dehno and Tepe East Dehno, Shahdad, South-eastern Iran

Dasht-e Lut (Lut Desert) is archaeologically well-known in Near East thanks to the presence, on its western edge, of the Bronze Age urban centre of Shahdad. In 2012, the author launched a three-season field project in the area of Shahdad, with an agenda articulated around three main research points: an extensive archaeological survey along the western edge of the Lut Desert, the stratigraphic e...