La tournée forêt méditerranéenne en Corse

Décrit successivement : la forêt de chênes verts de la vallée du Fango, les différents étages de végétation de Porto à Corte, la gestion forestière en site classé (Restonica), l'agrosylvopastoralisme (SIVOM Venaco), la chaufferie de Corte, la sylviculture en forêt de Ghisoni, et les lotissements en bois de Sperone

La tournée forêt méditerranéenne en Corse

International audienceDécrit successivement : la forêt de chênes verts de la vallée du Fango, les différents étages de végétation de Porto à Corte, la gestion forestière en site classé (Restonica), l'agrosylvopastoralisme (SIVOM Venaco), la chaufferie de Corte, la sylviculture en forêt de Ghisoni, et les lotissements en bois de Sperone

Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Deep Drilling Project Completes Coring

The Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Deep Drilling Project (CBIS Project) completed its coring operations during September–December 2005 and April–May 2006. Cores were collected continuously to a total depth of 1766 m. The recovered section consists of 1322 m of impactites beneath 444 m of post-impact continental shelf sediments.The CBIS Project is a joint venture of the International Continental Scientifi c Drilling Program (ICDP) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Project activities began with a planning workshop in September 2003 attended by sixtythree scientists from ten countries. Field operations began with site preparation in July 2005, and coring began in September 2005. Drilling, Observation and Sampling of theEarth’s Continental Crust (DOSECC) was the general contractor for the drilling operations throughout 2005

Sedimenting Social Identity: The Practice of Pre-Columbian Maya Body Partibility

While researchers of the pre-Columbian Maya have recognized that considerable variability characterizes treatment of dead bodies, few have scrutinized the practice of body partibility. The materiality of this practice indicates the ways in which social identities become transposed and then sedimented over generations. As one particularly cogent example, I examine a royal tomb from Dos Hombres, a ceremonial center located in northwestern Belize. The burial is also compared to other royal tombs in the region. While cultural continuities are identifiable, the Dos Hombres tomb is unique given its combination of attributes, namely the residential context into which it was entombed, its associated architecture, the approximately 20,000 obsidian flakes placed atop it, and the two decedents contained within—one of whom exhibited intentional body partibility. To make sense of this complicated burial, I take my cue from scholars who attend to mortuary processes that are materially subtle and often extended. Doing so facilitates distinction between myriad meanings encoded in corporeal manipulations