This article examines The Tale of the Mammoth and Glacier Man, an unfinished novel by P. L. Dravert. text is analysed from point view prehistoric fiction science fiction, as well reflection constants basic for “Siberian text” Russian literature. was first put forward V. I. Tyupa. In culture, Siberia connected with several ideas. It a place exiles, death resurrection, utopian paradise, territory...

The classical hypothesis proposes that Chagas disease has been originated in the Andean region among prehistoric people when they started domesticating animals, changing to sedentary habits, and adopting agriculture. These changes in their way of life happened nearly 6,000 years ago. However, paleoparasitological data based on molecular tools showed that Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas d...

Prehistoric environmental change in Hawai'i is evaluated through the analysis of sedi-ment and pollen samples from dated cores and excavation profiles in the coastal low-lands of O'ahu. It is suggested that a lowland Pritchardia palm forest and associatedspecies underwent rapid decline starting between about A.D. 1000 to 1200. This de-cline seems to have occurred earlier in coas...

Understanding extinction drivers in a human-dominated world is necessary to preserve biodiversity. We provide an overview of Quaternary extinctions and compare mammalian extinction events on continents and islands after human arrival in system-specific prehistoric and historic contexts. We highlight the role of body size and life-history traits in these extinctions. We find a significant size-b...

Although previous paleopathological studies have used disturbances in enamel formation as indicators of childhood stress, the full potential of this technique has not been realized. This paper presents a test case which demonstrates that the frequency of disturbed enamel formation (i.e., Wilson bands) is associated with other stress indicators (i.e., probability of dying and infectious lesions)...

Holocene fossils document the extinction of hundreds of bird species on Pacific islands during prehistoric human occupation. Human hunting is implicated in these extinctions, but the impact of hunting is difficult to disentangle from the effects of other changes induced by humans, including habitat destruction and the introduction of other mammalian predators. Here, we use data from bones colle...

The devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caught millions of coastal residents and the scientific community off-guard. Subsequent research in the Indian Ocean basin has identified prehistoric tsunamis, but the timing and recurrence intervals of such events are uncertain. Here we present an extraordinary 7,400 year stratigraphic sequence of prehistoric tsunami deposits from a coastal cave in Ace...

Historically, interpretations of both biological and cultural change within the prehistoric Azapa Valley, northern Chile, have cited large-scale population movements, with replacement from complex societies located in the adjacent highlands to the east. Biological estimates of this change have traditionally relied upon biodistance estimates, using craniofacial measures of both deformed and nond...

The paper explores literature, as well Nigeria’s national museum’s content on the use of animal forms elements and subjects in traditional Nigerian art from prehistoric to contemporary time. It identifies roles, significance animals mankind, appraises their aesthetic value Visual Art. dwells Indigenous tales associated with certain cultures such snakes, lizards crocodiles among others. Other da...