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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Lucky G. Ngwira; Jennifer Jelsma; Hendramoorthy Maheswaran; Fanny Kapakasa; Sarah Derrett; Stavros Petrou; Louis W. Niessen; Sarah Smith;pmid: 34801884
Abstract Objectives The EuroQol Group is developing a new EQ-5D-Y-5L version with 5 severity levels for each of the 5 dimensions. The 5 severity levels describe different health severities and there is a potential for severity level inversion. This article aims to report the process of cross-cultural adaptation of the beta EQ-5D-Y-5L into Chichewa (Malawi) using the card ranking exercise, which has been added to the EQ-5D-Y-5L translation protocol. Methods To assess the correct hierarchical ordering of severity levels, the adaptation followed the EQ-5D-Y-5L translation protocol. Cognitive interviews were undertaken to establish conceptual equivalence. Thereafter, 4 iterations of ranking exercises were conducted, leading to amendments of the translated Chichewa version to arrive at a final version. Results The iterations were assessed by 18 participants aged 8 to 14 years. Health proved to be a difficult concept to translate as was “discomfort.” Cognitive interviews identified further conceptual issues, particularly with the “looking after myself” dimension. Considerations about lack of soap or water indicated that some children did not fully comprehend this dimension as being about the ability to wash and dress themselves. The iterative card ranking exercise detected severity level inversion between “a little bit” and “some,” and between “a lot” and “extreme” and alternative Chichewa words/phrases were then tested. Ultimately, the intended hierarchical severity ranking was achieved and an acceptable Chichewa version was produced. Conclusions Conceptual and linguistic equivalence to the English EQ-5D-Y-5L was established for the Chichewa EQ-5D-Y-5L version. The card ranking exercise was instrumental in correcting severity level inversion and supporting the comprehensible translation.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022 United KingdomPublisher:Brill Authors: Mica B. Jones; Ruth Tibesasa;Mica B. Jones; Ruth Tibesasa;Abstract Kansyore pottery-using groups of the northeastern Lake Victoria Basin represent one of only a few examples of ‘complex’ hunter-gatherers in Africa. Archaeologists link evidence of specialized fishing, a seasonal land-use cycle between lake and riverine sites, and intensive investment in ceramic production to behavioral complexity after 9 thousand years ago (ka). However, a gap in the Kansyore radiocarbon record of the region between ~7 and 4.4 cal ka limits explanations of when and why social and economic changes occurred. This study provides the first evidence of lakeshore occupation during this temporal break at the only well-studied Kansyore site in eastern Uganda, Namundiri A. Within the context of other sites in nearby western Kenya, radiometric and faunal data from the site indicate a move from the lake to a greater reliance on riverine habitats with middle Holocene aridity ~5–4 cal ka and the arrival of food producers to the region after ~3 cal ka.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routeshybrid 2 citations 2 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!visibility 25visibility views 25 download downloads 9 Powered bymore_vert Oxford University Re... arrow_drop_down Oxford University Research ArchiveArticle . 2022License: CC BYData sources: Oxford University Research Archiveadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Peter Mitchell; Charles Arthur; Hugo Pinto; Cristian Capelli;Peter Mitchell; Charles Arthur; Hugo Pinto; Cristian Capelli;Abstract Professional archaeology in Lesotho was initiated 50 years ago when Pat Carter, working with Patricia Vinnicombe, excavated the site of Moshebi's Shelter in the Sehlabathebe Basin. His excavations there identified a sequence of both Middle and Later Stone Age (LSA) industries, the latter falling within the last 2200 years. However, the site was never fully published and Carter's use of 10-cm-thick spits to excavate its deposits raises questions about the precise stratigraphic provenance of the finds made. As part of renewed investigations into hunter-gatherer/farmer interactions in highland Lesotho, Moshebi's LSA deposits were re-excavated in 2009. This paper summarizes the results of the archaeological sequence recovered, their dating using both radiocarbon and OSL techniques, and their implications for past human use of the site and the wider Maloti-Drakensberg landscape.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesbronze 4 citations 4 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!visibility 5visibility views 5 download downloads 50 Powered bymore_vert add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Broadberry, Stephen; Gardner, Leigh;Broadberry, Stephen; Gardner, Leigh;Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been absent from recent debates about comparative long-run growth owing to the lack of data on aggregate economic performance before 1950. This paper provides estimates of GDP per capita on an annual basis for eight Anglophone African economies for the period since 1885, raising new questions about previous characterizations of the region's economic performance. The new data show that many of these economies had levels of per capita income which were above subsistence by the early twentieth century, on a par with the largest economies in Asia until the 1980s. However, overall improvements in GDP per capita were limited by episodes of negative growth or “shrinking”, the scale and scope of which can be measured through annual data.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routeshybrid 6 citations 6 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 217visibility views 217 download downloads 256 Powered bymore_vert Oxford University Re... arrow_drop_down Oxford University Research Archive; Explorations in Economic HistoryArticle . 2022 . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint 2022 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:WT | ISARICWT| ISARICWaasila Jassat; Caroline Mudara; Caroline Vika; Richard Welch; Tracy Arendse; Murray Dryden; Lucille Blumberg; Natalie Mayet; Stefano Tempia; Arifa Parker; Jeremy Nel; Rubeshan Perumal; Michelle J. Groome; Francesca Conradie; Norbert Ndjeka; Louise Sigfrid; Laura Merson; Cheryl Cohen;pmid: 36587841
pmc: PMC9800016
ABSTRACTBackgroundA third of people may experience persistent symptoms following COVID-19. With over 90% of South Africans having evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, it is likely that many people could be affected by Post COVID-19 Condition (PCC).MethodsThe was a prospective, longitudinal observational cohort study recruiting hospitalised and non-hospitalised participants, infected during the periods that Beta, Delta and Omicron BA.1 variants dominated in South Africa. Participants aged 18 years or older were randomly selected to undergo telephone assessment at 1, 3 and 6 months after hospital discharge or laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Participants were assessed using a standardised questionnaire for evaluation of symptoms and health-related quality of life. We used negative binomial regression models to determine factors associated with the presence of ≥1 symptoms at 6 months.FindingsAmong hospitalised and non-hospitalised participants, 46.7% (1,227/2,626) and 18.5% (199/1,074) had ≥1 symptoms at 6 months (p=<0.001). Among hospitalised participants 59.5%, 61.2% and 18.5% experienced ≥1 symptoms at 6 months among individuals infected during the Beta, Delta and Omicron dominant waves respectively. Among PLWH who were hospitalised, 40.4% had ≥1 symptoms at 6 months compared to 47.1% among HIV-uninfected participants (p=0.108).Risk factors for PCC included older age, female sex, non-black race, the presence of a comorbidity, greater number of acute COVID-19 symptoms, hospitalisation/ COVID-19 severity and wave period (individuals infected during the Omicron-dominated wave had a lower risk of persistent symptoms [adjusted Incident Risk Ratio 0.45; 95% Confidence Interval 0.36 – 0.57] compared to those infected during the Beta-dominated wave). There were no associations between self-reported vaccination status before or after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persistent symptoms.InterpretationThe study revealed a high prevalence of persistent symptoms among South African participants at 6 months although decreased risk for PCC among participants infected during the Omicron BA.1 wave. These findings have serious implications for countries with resource-constrained healthcare systems.FundingBill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and Wellcome.
International Journa... arrow_drop_down Oxford University Research ArchiveArticle . 2023License: CC BYData sources: Oxford University Research ArchiveInternational Journal of Infectious DiseasesArticle . 2023 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesgold 21 citations 21 popularity Top 10% influence Top 10% impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 3visibility views 3 download downloads 4 Powered bymore_vert International Journa... arrow_drop_down Oxford University Research ArchiveArticle . 2023License: CC BYData sources: Oxford University Research ArchiveInternational Journal of Infectious DiseasesArticle . 2023 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 United KingdomPublisher:Informa UK Limited Authors: Boehmer, E; Davies, A; Kawanu, Z;Boehmer, E; Davies, A; Kawanu, Z;This essay sets out to show how stories can help shape and change people’s understanding of their environment and how it impacts upon them. We report on how these ideas of storytelling informed a March 2020 UKRI GCRF funded Accelerate Hub workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, on narrative and adolescence in Africa, and point to related examples of storytelling interventions from elsewhere on the continent. We then explore questions that the workshop raised about the kinds of storytelling available to young people on the continent today and how understanding people’s stories is important for social policy design. The essay draws on the work of the Black Consciousness thinker and activist Steve Biko (1946–77), and of Kenyan writer and activist Binyavanga Wainaina (1971– 2019), to outline the significance of storytelling to projects of individual and collective emancipation. We build the case that there is an uneven geography of stories: that different people have different access to narrative making and therefore to self-envisioning. The essay closes by exploring how better access to infrastructures of storytelling might provide grounds for transformation in young people’s lives in Africa, and so might condition our approaches to policy intervention in African contexts. We suggest that linking storytelling, agency and social context to the field of social development and intervention can have important practical benefits for young people across Africa.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routeshybrid 0 citations 0 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!visibility 19visibility views 19 download downloads 49 Powered bymore_vert Oxford University Re... arrow_drop_down Oxford University Research ArchiveArticle . 2021License: CC BY NC NDData sources: Oxford University Research Archiveadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 United KingdomPublisher:Wiley Authors: Sam Leggett; Alice Rose; Estelle Praet; Petrus le Roux;Sam Leggett; Alice Rose; Estelle Praet; Petrus le Roux;AbstractHuman isotopic ecology at its core aims to study humans as a part of their environments, as animals within an ecosystem. We are complex animals with complicated foodways and mobility patterns that are hard to address without large multifaceted data sets. As biomolecular data from archaeological remains proliferates scientists are now at the stage where we are able to collate large bodies of data and undertake complex meta‐analyses and address the complexities of human ecology and past socioenvironmental dynamics. Here we present a data set of 862 entries of new primary isotopic data (37 faunal bone, 235 human enamel carbonate with a subset of 18 for 87/86Sr, 347 human bone, 243 human bulk dentine) within a larger data set compiled from available legacy data. It contains a total of 8,910 isotopic entries from ancient humans and animals relating to diet and mobility from the late Roman period into the Middle Ages (c. 400–1200 AD). It includes carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotope ratios from human bone, human dentine, faunal bone, and human bioapatite from thousands of individuals, and hundreds of sites found across 26 modern countries in western Europe. Studies have previously focused on only one of these aspects, compiling data sets for one tissue, or common isotopic pairing, or focusing on a particular site or region at a smaller scale for multi‐isotope multitissue studies. This is the largest and first multitissue, multi‐isotope, multiproxy data set of its kind from premodern populations. In publishing this data set, we hope to inspire more synthetic and meta‐analytical work on human isotopic ecology. Insights from these data should lead to greater understanding of diet, agriculture, climate change, human–animal interactions, mobility/migration, and much more in the past. It is hoped that these insights into past socioenvironmental dynamics will help inform current discourse on human–environmental interactions. There are no copyright or proprietary restrictions on the data; these data papers should be cited when these data are used in publications. Additionally, we would like to hear from other researchers who use these data sets in teaching or for their own research.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2021 Germany, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Spain, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Norway, United Kingdom, Argentina, United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, SpainPublisher:Public Library of Science (PLoS) Funded by:EC | GC2.0EC| GC2.0Kathleen D. Morrison; Emily Hammer; Oliver Boles; Marco Madella; Nicola Whitehouse; Marie-José Gaillard; Jennifer Bates; Marc Vander Linden; Stefania Merlo; Alice Yao; Laura Popova; Austin Chad Hill; Ferran Antolín; Andrew M. Bauer; Stefano Biagetti; Rosie R. Bishop; Phillip Buckland; Pablo Cruz; Dagmar Dreslerová; Gerrit L. Dusseldorp; Erle C. Ellis; Dragana Filipović; Thomas Foster; Matthew J. Hannaford; Sandy P. Harrison; Manjil Hazarika; Hajnalka Herold; Johanna Hilpert; Jed O. Kaplan; Andrea Kay; Kees Klein Goldewijk; Jan Kolář; Elizabeth Kyazike; Julian Laabs; Carla Lancelotti; Paul Lane; Dan Lawrence; Krista Lewis; Umberto Lombardo; Giulio Lucarini; Manuel Arroyo-Kalin; Rob Marchant; Francis E. Mayle; Meriel McClatchie; Madeleine McLeester; Scott Mooney; Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo; Vanessa Navarrete; Emmanuel Ndiema; Eduardo Góes Neves; Marek Nowak; Welmoed A. Out; Cameron Petrie; Leanne N. Phelps; Zsolt Pinke; Stéphen Rostain; Thembi Russell; Andrew Sluyter; Amy Styring; Eduardo Kazuo Tamanaha; Evert Thomas; Selvakumar Veerasamy; Lynn Welton; Marco Zanon;doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246662 , 10.17863/cam.67665 , 10.17863/cam.71684 , 10.5451/unibas-ep82754
handle: 11250/3053280 , 1874/412024 , 21.11116/0000-0008-6345-B , 21.11116/0000-0008-6347-9 , 1887/3203743 , 10230/47352 , 11336/153180
pmc: PMC8046197
pmid: 33852578
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246662 , 10.17863/cam.67665 , 10.17863/cam.71684 , 10.5451/unibas-ep82754
handle: 11250/3053280 , 1874/412024 , 21.11116/0000-0008-6345-B , 21.11116/0000-0008-6347-9 , 1887/3203743 , 10230/47352 , 11336/153180
pmc: PMC8046197
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In the 12,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical cycles. Earth system models suggest that this anthropogenic land cover change influenced regional and global climate. However, the representation of past land use in earth system models is currently oversimplified. As a result, there are large uncertainties in the current understanding of the past and current state of the earth system. In order to improve representation of the variety and scale of impacts that past land use had on the earth system, a global effort is underway to aggregate and synthesize archaeological and historical evidence of land use systems. Here we present a simple, hierarchical classification of land use systems designed to be used with archaeological and historical data at a global scale and a schema of codes that identify land use practices common to a range of systems, both implemented in a geospatial database. The classification scheme and database resulted from an extensive process of consultation with researchers worldwide. Our scheme is designed to deliver consistent, empirically robust data for the improvement of land use models, while simultaneously allowing for a comparative, detailed mapping of land use relevant to the needs of historical scholars. To illustrate the benefits of the classification scheme and methods for mapping historical land use, we apply it to Mesopotamia and Arabia at 6 kya (c. 4000 BCE). The scheme will be used to describe land use by the Past Global Changes (PAGES) LandCover6k working group, an international project comprised of archaeologists, historians, geographers, paleoecologists, and modelers. Beyond this, the scheme has a wide utility for creating a common language between research and policy communities, linking archaeologists with climate modelers, biodiversity conservation workers and initiatives. Introduction: Earth systems models, land cover, and the past Holocene land use and its significance: LandCover6k Classifying past land use The LandCover6k land use classification and variables Implementation of the classification in a geospatial database Archaeological land use mapping: Mesopotamia and Arabia at 6 kya - Mesopotamia classification. - Arabia land use data. - Arabia classification. Conclusion
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 United KingdomPublisher:Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Dan Hicks; Dan Hicks; Priya Basil; Haidy Geismar; Marlene Kadar; Emeka Ogboh; Fernando Domínguez Rubio; Clémentine Deliss; Nicholas Mirzoeff; Bonita Bennett; Ciraj Rassool; Ana Lucia Araujo;When it comes to the study of artworks as material culture, there are few more familiar idioms than that of the “life-history” of the object. From Arjun Appadurai’s formulation of “the social life of things” (1986) to Bruno Latour’s business-school model of “actor-networks” (1993), over the past generation a particular variety of materialist anthropology has taken root in those parts of historical studies that deal with things. “If humans have biographies, so should things”, some historians of science have proposed. In the history of art meanwhile, the reception of Alfred Gell’s influential text Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory recast artworks as “indexes”, distributing the agency of artists, as part of the “relational texture of social life”, where biography is expanded from human into the non-human realms. As if anthropocentrism were in the top ten problems with art theory (a field that is perhaps more accurately not human enough).
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Alida de Flamingh; Ashley N. Coutu; Judith Sealy; Shadreck Chirikure; Armanda D.S. Bastos; Nzila M. Libanda-Mubusisi; Ripan S. Malhi; Alfred L. Roca;pmid: 33338432
Summary The oldest known shipwreck in southern Africa was found in Namibia in 2008. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 Forty tons of cargo, including gold and silver coins, helped identify the ship as the Bom Jesus, a Portuguese nau (trading vessel) lost in 1533 while headed to India. 4 , 5 , 6 The cargo included >100 elephant tusks, 7 which we examined using paleogenomic and stable isotope analyses. Nuclear DNA identified the ivory source as African forest (Loxodonta cyclotis) rather than savanna (Loxodonta africana) elephants. Mitochondrial sequences traced them to West and not Central Africa and from ≥17 herds with distinct haplotypes. Four of the haplotypes are known from modern populations; others were potentially lost to subsequent hunting of elephants for ivory. Stable isotope analyses (δ13C and δ15N) indicated that the elephants were not from deep rainforests but from savanna and mixed habitats. Such habitats surround the Guinean forest block of West Africa 8 and accord with the locations of major historic Portuguese trading ports. 9 , 10 West African forest elephants currently range into savanna habitats; 11 , 12 , 13 our findings suggest that this was not consequent to regional decimation of savanna elephants for their ivory in the 19th and 20th centuries. During the time of the Bom Jesus, ivory was a central driver in the formation of maritime trading systems connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia. Our integration of paleogenomic, archeological, and historical methods to analyze the Bom Jesus ivory provides a framework for examining vast collections of archaeological ivories around the world, in shipwrecks and other contexts.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Lucky G. Ngwira; Jennifer Jelsma; Hendramoorthy Maheswaran; Fanny Kapakasa; Sarah Derrett; Stavros Petrou; Louis W. Niessen; Sarah Smith;pmid: 34801884
Abstract Objectives The EuroQol Group is developing a new EQ-5D-Y-5L version with 5 severity levels for each of the 5 dimensions. The 5 severity levels describe different health severities and there is a potential for severity level inversion. This article aims to report the process of cross-cultural adaptation of the beta EQ-5D-Y-5L into Chichewa (Malawi) using the card ranking exercise, which has been added to the EQ-5D-Y-5L translation protocol. Methods To assess the correct hierarchical ordering of severity levels, the adaptation followed the EQ-5D-Y-5L translation protocol. Cognitive interviews were undertaken to establish conceptual equivalence. Thereafter, 4 iterations of ranking exercises were conducted, leading to amendments of the translated Chichewa version to arrive at a final version. Results The iterations were assessed by 18 participants aged 8 to 14 years. Health proved to be a difficult concept to translate as was “discomfort.” Cognitive interviews identified further conceptual issues, particularly with the “looking after myself” dimension. Considerations about lack of soap or water indicated that some children did not fully comprehend this dimension as being about the ability to wash and dress themselves. The iterative card ranking exercise detected severity level inversion between “a little bit” and “some,” and between “a lot” and “extreme” and alternative Chichewa words/phrases were then tested. Ultimately, the intended hierarchical severity ranking was achieved and an acceptable Chichewa version was produced. Conclusions Conceptual and linguistic equivalence to the English EQ-5D-Y-5L was established for the Chichewa EQ-5D-Y-5L version. The card ranking exercise was instrumental in correcting severity level inversion and supporting the comprehensible translation.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022 United KingdomPublisher:Brill Authors: Mica B. Jones; Ruth Tibesasa;Mica B. Jones; Ruth Tibesasa;Abstract Kansyore pottery-using groups of the northeastern Lake Victoria Basin represent one of only a few examples of ‘complex’ hunter-gatherers in Africa. Archaeologists link evidence of specialized fishing, a seasonal land-use cycle between lake and riverine sites, and intensive investment in ceramic production to behavioral complexity after 9 thousand years ago (ka). However, a gap in the Kansyore radiocarbon record of the region between ~7 and 4.4 cal ka limits explanations of when and why social and economic changes occurred. This study provides the first evidence of lakeshore occupation during this temporal break at the only well-studied Kansyore site in eastern Uganda, Namundiri A. Within the context of other sites in nearby western Kenya, radiometric and faunal data from the site indicate a move from the lake to a greater reliance on riverine habitats with middle Holocene aridity ~5–4 cal ka and the arrival of food producers to the region after ~3 cal ka.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Peter Mitchell; Charles Arthur; Hugo Pinto; Cristian Capelli;Peter Mitchell; Charles Arthur; Hugo Pinto; Cristian Capelli;Abstract Professional archaeology in Lesotho was initiated 50 years ago when Pat Carter, working with Patricia Vinnicombe, excavated the site of Moshebi's Shelter in the Sehlabathebe Basin. His excavations there identified a sequence of both Middle and Later Stone Age (LSA) industries, the latter falling within the last 2200 years. However, the site was never fully published and Carter's use of 10-cm-thick spits to excavate its deposits raises questions about the precise stratigraphic provenance of the finds made. As part of renewed investigations into hunter-gatherer/farmer interactions in highland Lesotho, Moshebi's LSA deposits were re-excavated in 2009. This paper summarizes the results of the archaeological sequence recovered, their dating using both radiocarbon and OSL techniques, and their implications for past human use of the site and the wider Maloti-Drakensberg landscape.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Broadberry, Stephen; Gardner, Leigh;Broadberry, Stephen; Gardner, Leigh;Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been absent from recent debates about comparative long-run growth owing to the lack of data on aggregate economic performance before 1950. This paper provides estimates of GDP per capita on an annual basis for eight Anglophone African economies for the period since 1885, raising new questions about previous characterizations of the region's economic performance. The new data show that many of these economies had levels of per capita income which were above subsistence by the early twentieth century, on a par with the largest economies in Asia until the 1980s. However, overall improvements in GDP per capita were limited by episodes of negative growth or “shrinking”, the scale and scope of which can be measured through annual data.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint 2022 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:WT | ISARICWT| ISARICWaasila Jassat; Caroline Mudara; Caroline Vika; Richard Welch; Tracy Arendse; Murray Dryden; Lucille Blumberg; Natalie Mayet; Stefano Tempia; Arifa Parker; Jeremy Nel; Rubeshan Perumal; Michelle J. Groome; Francesca Conradie; Norbert Ndjeka; Louise Sigfrid; Laura Merson; Cheryl Cohen;pmid: 36587841
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ABSTRACTBackgroundA third of people may experience persistent symptoms following COVID-19. With over 90% of South Africans having evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, it is likely that many people could be affected by Post COVID-19 Condition (PCC).MethodsThe was a prospective, longitudinal observational cohort study recruiting hospitalised and non-hospitalised participants, infected during the periods that Beta, Delta and Omicron BA.1 variants dominated in South Africa. Participants aged 18 years or older were randomly selected to undergo telephone assessment at 1, 3 and 6 months after hospital discharge or laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Participants were assessed using a standardised questionnaire for evaluation of symptoms and health-related quality of life. We used negative binomial regression models to determine factors associated with the presence of ≥1 symptoms at 6 months.FindingsAmong hospitalised and non-hospitalised participants, 46.7% (1,227/2,626) and 18.5% (199/1,074) had ≥1 symptoms at 6 months (p=<0.001). Among hospitalised participants 59.5%, 61.2% and 18.5% experienced ≥1 symptoms at 6 months among individuals infected during the Beta, Delta and Omicron dominant waves respectively. Among PLWH who were hospitalised, 40.4% had ≥1 symptoms at 6 months compared to 47.1% among HIV-uninfected participants (p=0.108).Risk factors for PCC included older age, female sex, non-black race, the presence of a comorbidity, greater number of acute COVID-19 symptoms, hospitalisation/ COVID-19 severity and wave period (individuals infected during the Omicron-dominated wave had a lower risk of persistent symptoms [adjusted Incident Risk Ratio 0.45; 95% Confidence Interval 0.36 – 0.57] compared to those infected during the Beta-dominated wave). There were no associations between self-reported vaccination status before or after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persistent symptoms.InterpretationThe study revealed a high prevalence of persistent symptoms among South African participants at 6 months although decreased risk for PCC among participants infected during the Omicron BA.1 wave. These findings have serious implications for countries with resource-constrained healthcare systems.FundingBill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and Wellcome.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesgold 21 citations 21 popularity Top 10% influence Top 10% impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 3visibility views 3 download downloads 4 Powered bymore_vert International Journa... arrow_drop_down Oxford University Research ArchiveArticle . 2023License: CC BYData sources: Oxford University Research ArchiveInternational Journal of Infectious DiseasesArticle . 2023 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 United KingdomPublisher:Informa UK Limited Authors: Boehmer, E; Davies, A; Kawanu, Z;Boehmer, E; Davies, A; Kawanu, Z;This essay sets out to show how stories can help shape and change people’s understanding of their environment and how it impacts upon them. We report on how these ideas of storytelling informed a March 2020 UKRI GCRF funded Accelerate Hub workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, on narrative and adolescence in Africa, and point to related examples of storytelling interventions from elsewhere on the continent. We then explore questions that the workshop raised about the kinds of storytelling available to young people on the continent today and how understanding people’s stories is important for social policy design. The essay draws on the work of the Black Consciousness thinker and activist Steve Biko (1946–77), and of Kenyan writer and activist Binyavanga Wainaina (1971– 2019), to outline the significance of storytelling to projects of individual and collective emancipation. We build the case that there is an uneven geography of stories: that different people have different access to narrative making and therefore to self-envisioning. The essay closes by exploring how better access to infrastructures of storytelling might provide grounds for transformation in young people’s lives in Africa, and so might condition our approaches to policy intervention in African contexts. We suggest that linking storytelling, agency and social context to the field of social development and intervention can have important practical benefits for young people across Africa.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 United KingdomPublisher:Wiley Authors: Sam Leggett; Alice Rose; Estelle Praet; Petrus le Roux;Sam Leggett; Alice Rose; Estelle Praet; Petrus le Roux;AbstractHuman isotopic ecology at its core aims to study humans as a part of their environments, as animals within an ecosystem. We are complex animals with complicated foodways and mobility patterns that are hard to address without large multifaceted data sets. As biomolecular data from archaeological remains proliferates scientists are now at the stage where we are able to collate large bodies of data and undertake complex meta‐analyses and address the complexities of human ecology and past socioenvironmental dynamics. Here we present a data set of 862 entries of new primary isotopic data (37 faunal bone, 235 human enamel carbonate with a subset of 18 for 87/86Sr, 347 human bone, 243 human bulk dentine) within a larger data set compiled from available legacy data. It contains a total of 8,910 isotopic entries from ancient humans and animals relating to diet and mobility from the late Roman period into the Middle Ages (c. 400–1200 AD). It includes carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotope ratios from human bone, human dentine, faunal bone, and human bioapatite from thousands of individuals, and hundreds of sites found across 26 modern countries in western Europe. Studies have previously focused on only one of these aspects, compiling data sets for one tissue, or common isotopic pairing, or focusing on a particular site or region at a smaller scale for multi‐isotope multitissue studies. This is the largest and first multitissue, multi‐isotope, multiproxy data set of its kind from premodern populations. In publishing this data set, we hope to inspire more synthetic and meta‐analytical work on human isotopic ecology. Insights from these data should lead to greater understanding of diet, agriculture, climate change, human–animal interactions, mobility/migration, and much more in the past. It is hoped that these insights into past socioenvironmental dynamics will help inform current discourse on human–environmental interactions. There are no copyright or proprietary restrictions on the data; these data papers should be cited when these data are used in publications. Additionally, we would like to hear from other researchers who use these data sets in teaching or for their own research.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2021 Germany, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Spain, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Norway, United Kingdom, Argentina, United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, SpainPublisher:Public Library of Science (PLoS) Funded by:EC | GC2.0EC| GC2.0Kathleen D. Morrison; Emily Hammer; Oliver Boles; Marco Madella; Nicola Whitehouse; Marie-José Gaillard; Jennifer Bates; Marc Vander Linden; Stefania Merlo; Alice Yao; Laura Popova; Austin Chad Hill; Ferran Antolín; Andrew M. Bauer; Stefano Biagetti; Rosie R. Bishop; Phillip Buckland; Pablo Cruz; Dagmar Dreslerová; Gerrit L. Dusseldorp; Erle C. Ellis; Dragana Filipović; Thomas Foster; Matthew J. Hannaford; Sandy P. Harrison; Manjil Hazarika; Hajnalka Herold; Johanna Hilpert; Jed O. Kaplan; Andrea Kay; Kees Klein Goldewijk; Jan Kolář; Elizabeth Kyazike; Julian Laabs; Carla Lancelotti; Paul Lane; Dan Lawrence; Krista Lewis; Umberto Lombardo; Giulio Lucarini; Manuel Arroyo-Kalin; Rob Marchant; Francis E. Mayle; Meriel McClatchie; Madeleine McLeester; Scott Mooney; Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo; Vanessa Navarrete; Emmanuel Ndiema; Eduardo Góes Neves; Marek Nowak; Welmoed A. Out; Cameron Petrie; Leanne N. Phelps; Zsolt Pinke; Stéphen Rostain; Thembi Russell; Andrew Sluyter; Amy Styring; Eduardo Kazuo Tamanaha; Evert Thomas; Selvakumar Veerasamy; Lynn Welton; Marco Zanon;doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246662 , 10.17863/cam.67665 , 10.17863/cam.71684 , 10.5451/unibas-ep82754
handle: 11250/3053280 , 1874/412024 , 21.11116/0000-0008-6345-B , 21.11116/0000-0008-6347-9 , 1887/3203743 , 10230/47352 , 11336/153180
pmc: PMC8046197
pmid: 33852578
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246662 , 10.17863/cam.67665 , 10.17863/cam.71684 , 10.5451/unibas-ep82754
handle: 11250/3053280 , 1874/412024 , 21.11116/0000-0008-6345-B , 21.11116/0000-0008-6347-9 , 1887/3203743 , 10230/47352 , 11336/153180
pmc: PMC8046197
pmid: 33852578
In the 12,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical cycles. Earth system models suggest that this anthropogenic land cover change influenced regional and global climate. However, the representation of past land use in earth system models is currently oversimplified. As a result, there are large uncertainties in the current understanding of the past and current state of the earth system. In order to improve representation of the variety and scale of impacts that past land use had on the earth system, a global effort is underway to aggregate and synthesize archaeological and historical evidence of land use systems. Here we present a simple, hierarchical classification of land use systems designed to be used with archaeological and historical data at a global scale and a schema of codes that identify land use practices common to a range of systems, both implemented in a geospatial database. The classification scheme and database resulted from an extensive process of consultation with researchers worldwide. Our scheme is designed to deliver consistent, empirically robust data for the improvement of land use models, while simultaneously allowing for a comparative, detailed mapping of land use relevant to the needs of historical scholars. To illustrate the benefits of the classification scheme and methods for mapping historical land use, we apply it to Mesopotamia and Arabia at 6 kya (c. 4000 BCE). The scheme will be used to describe land use by the Past Global Changes (PAGES) LandCover6k working group, an international project comprised of archaeologists, historians, geographers, paleoecologists, and modelers. Beyond this, the scheme has a wide utility for creating a common language between research and policy communities, linking archaeologists with climate modelers, biodiversity conservation workers and initiatives. Introduction: Earth systems models, land cover, and the past Holocene land use and its significance: LandCover6k Classifying past land use The LandCover6k land use classification and variables Implementation of the classification in a geospatial database Archaeological land use mapping: Mesopotamia and Arabia at 6 kya - Mesopotamia classification. - Arabia land use data. - Arabia classification. Conclusion
CORE (RIOXX-UK Aggre... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8046197Data sources: PubMed CentralCONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; PLoS ONE; NARCIS; OPUS AugsburgOther literature type . Article . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYDurham Research OnlineArticle . 2021 . Peer-reviewedFull-Text: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/34578/1/34578.pdfData sources: Durham Research OnlineRecolector de Ciencia Abierta, RECOLECTA; Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABArticle . 2021License: CC BYOxford University Research ArchiveArticle . 2022License: CC BYData sources: Oxford University Research ArchiveLeiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryArticle . 2021License: CC BYData sources: Leiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryUniverzitní repozitář Masarykovy univerzityArticle . 2021Data sources: Univerzitní repozitář Masarykovy univerzityadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 47 citations 47 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!visibility 41visibility views 41 download downloads 53 Powered bymore_vert CORE (RIOXX-UK Aggre... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8046197Data sources: PubMed CentralCONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; PLoS ONE; NARCIS; OPUS AugsburgOther literature type . Article . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYDurham Research OnlineArticle . 2021 . Peer-reviewedFull-Text: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/34578/1/34578.pdfData sources: Durham Research OnlineRecolector de Ciencia Abierta, RECOLECTA; Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABArticle . 2021License: CC BYOxford University Research ArchiveArticle . 2022License: CC BYData sources: Oxford University Research ArchiveLeiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryArticle . 2021License: CC BYData sources: Leiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryUniverzitní repozitář Masarykovy univerzityArticle . 2021Data sources: Univerzitní repozitář Masarykovy univerzityadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 United KingdomPublisher:Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Dan Hicks; Dan Hicks; Priya Basil; Haidy Geismar; Marlene Kadar; Emeka Ogboh; Fernando Domínguez Rubio; Clémentine Deliss; Nicholas Mirzoeff; Bonita Bennett; Ciraj Rassool; Ana Lucia Araujo;When it comes to the study of artworks as material culture, there are few more familiar idioms than that of the “life-history” of the object. From Arjun Appadurai’s formulation of “the social life of things” (1986) to Bruno Latour’s business-school model of “actor-networks” (1993), over the past generation a particular variety of materialist anthropology has taken root in those parts of historical studies that deal with things. “If humans have biographies, so should things”, some historians of science have proposed. In the history of art meanwhile, the reception of Alfred Gell’s influential text Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory recast artworks as “indexes”, distributing the agency of artists, as part of the “relational texture of social life”, where biography is expanded from human into the non-human realms. As if anthropocentrism were in the top ten problems with art theory (a field that is perhaps more accurately not human enough).
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 United KingdomPublisher:Elsevier BV Alida de Flamingh; Ashley N. Coutu; Judith Sealy; Shadreck Chirikure; Armanda D.S. Bastos; Nzila M. Libanda-Mubusisi; Ripan S. Malhi; Alfred L. Roca;pmid: 33338432
Summary The oldest known shipwreck in southern Africa was found in Namibia in 2008. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 Forty tons of cargo, including gold and silver coins, helped identify the ship as the Bom Jesus, a Portuguese nau (trading vessel) lost in 1533 while headed to India. 4 , 5 , 6 The cargo included >100 elephant tusks, 7 which we examined using paleogenomic and stable isotope analyses. Nuclear DNA identified the ivory source as African forest (Loxodonta cyclotis) rather than savanna (Loxodonta africana) elephants. Mitochondrial sequences traced them to West and not Central Africa and from ≥17 herds with distinct haplotypes. Four of the haplotypes are known from modern populations; others were potentially lost to subsequent hunting of elephants for ivory. Stable isotope analyses (δ13C and δ15N) indicated that the elephants were not from deep rainforests but from savanna and mixed habitats. Such habitats surround the Guinean forest block of West Africa 8 and accord with the locations of major historic Portuguese trading ports. 9 , 10 West African forest elephants currently range into savanna habitats; 11 , 12 , 13 our findings suggest that this was not consequent to regional decimation of savanna elephants for their ivory in the 19th and 20th centuries. During the time of the Bom Jesus, ivory was a central driver in the formation of maritime trading systems connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia. Our integration of paleogenomic, archeological, and historical methods to analyze the Bom Jesus ivory provides a framework for examining vast collections of archaeological ivories around the world, in shipwrecks and other contexts.
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