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Proceedings Reference ThermoMap methodology and Belgian results
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Inproceedings Reference THEY ALL SMELL THE SAME (THOUGH...) BUT THEIR CONTENT MAY BE DIFFERENT: LOOKING AT LATE MEDIEVAL HUMAN EXCREMENTS AND GARBAGE PITS IN THE COUNTY OF HAINAUT, SOUTHERN LOW COUNTRIES
Human excrements and garbage pits of two archaeological sites in the County of Hainaut (Southern Low Countries, Belgium) have been studied by the interdisciplinary team “Archaeo sciences” of the RBINS. Stone walled latrines dating from the 14th century have been uncovered at the site of Chièvres, while several garbage pits dating from the 12th to the 16th century were excavated at the site of “rue des Bouchers-Saint Jacques” in the city of Tournai. We are presenting the 14th century composition of the waste contexts for the two sites and a diachronic composition’s evolution for the garbage pits of “rue des Bouchers-Saint Jacques”. Archaeobotanical (seeds and fruit, wood and wood charcoal, pollen, spores and NPPs) and archaeozoological studies show that, in the majority, they contain digested food residues, food scraps and also some scarce remains of other non-food residues. The most common taxa found are vegetables, condiments, wild and/or cultivated fruits, cereals, fish and mammal remains. But if we look more closely, some cesspits contain outstanding elements such as honey (the first mention in Wallonia for the medieval period), waste of cereal processing that may have been used for the sanitation of such structures. This paper aims at: 1 / highlighting late Medieval period human food intake of the Southern Low Countries 2 / comparing data between two 14th century waste contexts and finally, 3 / showing differences in pit fillings, indicating different structure maintenance and/or different social status.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2019
Inproceedings Reference Three-dimensional ant distribution in rainforests and a method to detect ant mosaics
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2019
Inproceedings Reference Time-series analysis of SAR images for detection of ground subsidence in the Scheldt estuary
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Inproceedings Reference audio/x-realaudio Time-series analysis of SAR images for detecting ground subsidence in the Scheldt estuary
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2016
Article Reference Toarcian marine reptiles from Luxembourg. In : Les schistes bitumineux
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2016
Proceedings Reference Tools to support the monitoring of MSFD descriptors 6 'Sea-floor integrity' and 7 'Hydrographical conditions'
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2016
Inproceedings Reference Toujours dans l’Ouest de l’Inde: une nouvelle faune de mammifères de l’Eocène inférieur dans la mine de lignite de Tadkeshwar
Les mines de lignite de Vastan et Mangrol au Gujarat (ouest de l’Inde) ont livré une riche faune de vertébrés de l’Yprésien dont une proportion importante de mammifères de petite à moyenne taille d’affinité européenne. Nous présentons ici un nouvel assemblage contemporain issu de la mine voisine de Tadkeshwar. Deux couches fossilifères y ont été découvertes. La première est représentée par un chenal de sables argileux gris situé quelques mètres au-dessus du niveau de lignite inférieur de la mine. La seconde est représentée par un niveau lenticulaire de silts argileux foncés, ligniteux et riche en restes organiques, situé juste sous le niveau de lignite supérieur. Cette dernière couche est sédimentologiquement semblable aux célèbres lentilles fossilifères de Vastan. Ces deux niveaux à fossiles ont livrées une faune de mammifères similaire à celle de Vastan avec la présence du cambaytheriidé Cambaytherium thewissi, groupe frère des périssodactyles, des primates adapoïdes Marcgodinotius indicus et Asiadapis cambayensis, et du hyaenodontidé Indohyaenodon raoi. La présence de ces espèces dans les deux mines et dans différentes couches stratigraphiques suggère que les dépôts entre les deux niveaux à lignites représentent un seul et même âge à mammifères. Hormis les espèces classiques mentionnées ci-dessus, deux nouvelles espèces sont présentes. Un nouveau petit cambaytheriidé abondant est décrit sur base de mâchoires supérieures et inférieures, de nombreuses dents isolées et d’os postcrâniens. Un nouveau tillodonte esthonychidé est nommé sur base d’un dentaire avec m3 et d’incisives et molaires inférieures et supérieures isolées. Cette nouvelle faune de Tadkeshwar recèle également les premiers grands vertébrés de l’Eocène inférieur de l’Inde tels qu’un mammifère pantodonte appartenant probablement aux coryphodontidés, un crocodiliforme dyrosauridé et un serpent madtsoiidé géant. Parmi les vertébrés de Tadkeshwar plusieurs taxons sont d’affinité gondwanienne indiquant que l’Eocène inférieur était une période cruciale en Inde durant laquelle des taxons laurasiens d’affinité européenne coexistèrent avec des taxons reliques du Gondwana avant la collision avec l’Asie. Le travail de terrain est financé par la National Geographic Society, la Fondation Leakey et le Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology. Ce résumé est une contribution au projet BR/121/A3/PalEurafrica financé par la Politique Scientifique Belge.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2016
Article Reference Tournaisian and Viséan (Carboniferous) brachiopods from neptunian dykes of the Harz Mountains (Germany)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2019
Inproceedings Reference Towards a better knowledge and protection of biodiversity in Africa using Web 2.0 technologies
For more than 10 years, thanks to funding provided by the Belgian Development Cooperation (DGD), the Belgian Clearing House Mechanism (CHM) team of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), has been helping its partner countries in the South develop their national CHM networks. In 2003, the European Union adopted the PTK (Portal Toolkit): a Content Management System that allows to develop national CHM websites in Europe. The PTK is released under the Mozilla Public License. It is a free and open source software, that allows multi user-generated content. It includes collaborative tools managed through the Web, such as discussion forums, consultations and surveys. With the PTK, users can: • Mobilize networks of experts through a user-friendly content management system • Raise public awareness by uploading short films, photos and presentations • Communicate biodiversity by state-of-the-art mapping services using YAHOO backgrounds and Google Earth exports • Prepare for biodiversity reporting by using public content contribution, user discussion forum, public consultation tools, survey tools and syndication • Collaborate in technical and scientific projects with modern web standards • Connect biodiversity databases. Belgium has been using the PTK for its national CHM website (http://www.biodiv.be/) for 10 years. More than 30 countries in Africa use the PTK for their national websites (such as Benin, Madagascar, Morocco, etc.), see full list here (http://www.biodiv.be/cooperation/chm_coop/chm-partnering/part_country). The national website URLs are as follows: country code + .chm-cbd.net. For instance, for Niger, the URL is http://ne.chm-cbd.net. The Belgian CHM hosts the national CHM websites of its partner countries on its server and offers training courses for the development and maintenance of these websites. Distance learning manuals on the use of the PTK have been developed by the Belgian CHM team for the last 4 years. The manuals are developed both in English and French. They are available on a training website: http://training.biodiv.be/formationptk. This website is used for distance learning for our partners and for any other interested party but also for blended learning. Two weeks before a face-to-face training in a partner country, all future trainees are invited to: • surf their national CHM website; • read a basic manual that introduces the PTK and the CHM; • create a user account on the training website.
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