The interpretation of crop water management practices has been central to the archeological debate on agricultural strategies and is crucial where type strategy can provide fundamental explanations for adoption use specific crops. Traces administration are difficult detect mostly indirect, in form harvesting or distribution structures. Attempts have made infer plant availability directly from a...

The social customs and technological advancements that have their roots in or are connected to the ethno linguistically heterogeneous country of India known as Indian culture. phrase also refers nations cultures outside whose histories ties via immigration, colonialism, other forms influence, notably South Asia South-East Asia. An important chapter history is spread culture civilization regions...

has to be expanded further to provide for a study of evolution and formation of Indian languages in the Indian language union (sprachbund). The paper analyses the stages in the evolution of early writing systems which began with the evolution of counting in the ancient Near East. Providing an example from the Indian Hieroglyphs used in Indus Script as a writing system, a stage anterior to the s...

and rolling slopes interspersed with lake basins. The vegetation includes open alpine steppe communities with c. 15% vegetation cover. Vegetation is usually dominated by grass, and biomass rarely exceeds 15 g m−2 (Schaller, 1998; data from adjoining sites in Tibet). The growth season is limited to June–September and temperature regularly falls to −30°C during the long winter. The gazelle was re...

Two experiments studied the relative effects on body mass and testicular growth of stimulatory photoperiods applied simultaneously to two photosensitive species, the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) and brahminy myna (Sturnus pagodarum). Experiment 1 on the house sparrow consisted of two parts. In experiment 1A, beginning on 24 March 2002, short day pretreated sparrows were exposed for 12 week...

BACKGROUND Nephaspis indus Gordon, 1996 was imported into Taiwan from Hawaii in 1990 as a biological control agent for the spiralling whitefly, Aleurodicus dispersus Russell, 1965 (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae). However, its establishment was not known prior to this study. NEW INFORMATION Nephaspis indus Gordon, 1996, a natural enemy of Aleurodicus dispersus Russell (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) native ...