Geography and ethnography : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / by Raaflaub, Kurt A., Talbert, Richard J. A., 1947-

Tezcatlipoca/Hades: Dos columnas míticas con un basamento común by Kattia Chinchilla Sánchez

“…This article shows the mythic nature of two different gods: Tezcatlipoca, in the Aztec pantheon, and Hades, the Greek goddess of the dark soul's place. …”
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A Middle-Late Devonian fish fauna from the Sierra de Perijá, western Venezuela, South America by G. C. Young, J. M. Moody

“…Sie sind mit Arten der Aztec-Fischfauna von Viktoria Land, Antarktis, verwandt. …”
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The Spear: An Effective Weapon Since Antiquity by Robert E. Dohrenwend

“…The javelin throw is a modern Olympic track and field event, and there are people who have resurrected the Aztec atlatl for sporting competition. Today, the spear is still used in Europe for hunting wild boar, and the continued issue of the obsolete bayonet to modern soldiers testifies to a deep, almost instinctive respect still possessed by the military for the spear.…”
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L’arbre des rues de Mexico : une ressource au-delà de son exploitabilité by Nora Itri

“…From the original design of Mexico City by the altepetl, the Aztec city-state, to the contemporary megalopolis, the ‘‘tree of the street’’ translates the persistent continuity of the natural environment through the city's soil. …”
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Octavio Paz y su visión de la cultura azteca by Irán Francisco Vázquez Hernández

“…This text aims to be an approach to the image that Octavio Paz had about the Aztec culture. It is argued that the Mexican poet had a critical perspective concerning this culture (wich he considered decadent). …”
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Spanish urban policy in the New World on the example of Mexico City, the country's colonial metropolis by Irina Selivanova

“…The future metropolis of New Spain, Mexi-co City, was located on the site of the main Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. The idea to found a city on the site of the Indian Tenochtitlan belonged to E. …”
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Stable Isotopes and Zooarchaeology at Teotihuacan, Mexico Reveal Earliest Evidence of Wild Carnivore Management in Mesoamerica. by Nawa Sugiyama, Andrew D Somerville, Margaret J Schoeninger

“…These results push back the antiquity of keeping captive carnivores for ritualistic purposes nearly 1000 years before the Spanish conquistadors described Moctezuma's zoo at the Aztec capital. Mirroring these documents the results indicate a select group of carnivores at Teotihuacan may have been fed maize-eating omnivores, such as dogs and humans. …”
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THE ARABIC COGNATES OR ORIGINS OF PLURAL MARKERS IN WORLD LANGUAGES: A RADICAL LINGUISTIC THEORY APPROACH by Zaidan Ali Jassem

“…The data comprises the main plural markers like cats/oxen in 60 world languages from 14 major and minor families- viz., Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Afro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Dravidian, Turkic, Mayan, Altaic (Japonic), Niger-Congo, Bantu, Uto-Aztec, Tai-Kadai, Uralic, and Basque, which constitute 60% of world languages and whose speakers make up 96% of world population. …”
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A Middle-Late Devonian fish fauna from the Sierra de Perijá, western Venezuela, South America by G. C. Young, J. M. Moody

“…Sie sind mit Arten der Aztec-Fischfauna von Viktoria Land, Antarktis, verwandt. …”
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Beads and Ceremony: The Collision of Pan-American, European, African, and Asian Bead Networks in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Empire by Lauren Beck

“…Beads created in the northeastern Atlantic world found themselves in Aztec and Incan territories, as did beads made from rocks found in the Pacific Northwest, all of which had been borne along trade networks that have existed for ages. …”
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Les regards des Nord-Américains portés sur les cultures pueblo et navajo. Une histoire de cultures ou la culture de l'histoire ? by Estelle Brun

“…The Native American sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, Chaco Culture (Chaco Canyon and Aztec Ruins), Mesa Verde and Taos Pueblo (Vth-XIVth c.) have the distinction of being linked to living cultures, whose representatives have kept memory of the places enlivened by the presence of their ancestors, through oral traditions. …”
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EBSD-based criteria for coesite-to-quartz transformation: sample 11-01 (Tso Morari, Himalaya) and DW09-52 (Dora Maira, Alps) datasets by Bidgood, A

“…The quartz crystal preferred orientations (CPO) were determined using EBSD collected on an FEI Quanta 650 FEG E-Scanning electron microscope equipped with Oxford Instruments Aztec (version 3.3) acquisition software and a NordlysNano EBSD camera. …”

Lateral load capacity of the common steel stud wall framing braced bays in Australia's Northern Territory by Nikolas Mpilias, Ali Rajabipour, Bede Rodeghiero, Milad Bazli

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Improving Trust in a (Trans)National Invoicing System: The Performance of Crash vs. Byzantine Fault Tolerance at Scale by Jonas S. Søgaard, Peter W. Eklund, Lasse Herskind, Jason Spasovski

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INTRODUCTION by Ema VYROUBALOVÁ

“…Texts, some of which have since come to be regarded as literary and are now both studied by literary scholars and taught in literature courses, have nevertheless preoccupied themselves with animals and their relationships with humans for thousands of years: the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Aztec codices, medieval bestiaries, and the Bible all prominently feature animals in their respective narratives and imbue them with an array of symbolic meaning. …”
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Transient evolution of non-metallic inclusions in molten high aluminum and high manganese steel contacting with slag and crucible: experimental investigation and FactSage macros mo... by Jinlong Wang, Shengqiang Song, Zhengliang Xue

“…Processing samples were taken for the chemical compositions of steel and also the inclusions have been characterized by using SEM and EDS AZtec. FactSage macros have been applied to simulate the evolution of molten steel composition and inclusions in molten steel during steel-slag reaction and comparing to the experimental results. …”
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Alcoxotechnology for obtaining heat-resistant materials based on rhenium and ruthenium by E. S. Kulikova, O. V. Chernyshova, L. A. Nosikova, R. D. Svetogorov, D. V. Drobot, I. A. Mikheev

“…IR spectroscopy (EQUINOX 55 Bruker, Germany), X-ray phase and elemental analyses, energy-dispersive microanalysis (EDMA, SEM JSM5910-LV, analytical system AZTEC), powder X-ray diffraction (diffractometer D8 Advance Bruker, Germany), experimental station XSA beamline at the Kurchatov Synchrotron Radiation Source.Results. …”
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Matriarch of Latin American Studies in Russia. Vera Kuteishchikova’s Birth Centenary by Andrey F. Kofman

“…Kollontai to be awarded with the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle for her merits in the study of Mexican literature. …”
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INTRODUCTION by Ema VYROUBALOVÁ

“…Texts, some of which have since come to be regarded as literary and are now both studied by literary scholars and taught in literature courses, have nevertheless preoccupied themselves with animals and their relationships with humans for thousands of years: the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Aztec codices, medieval bestiaries, and the Bible all prominently feature animals in their respective narratives and imbue them with an array of symbolic meaning. …”
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