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• The survey region, prior investigations, and the research process
• The value of systematic, full-coverage regional survey
• Descriptions of major sites and collections
• Regional settlement patterns and the development of complex societies

A comprehensive account of a pioneering archaeological project in the province of Shandong that transformed understandings of regional settlement patterns From 1995 to 2007, researchers from China and the United States conducted a systematic, full-coverage regional archaeological survey in southeastern Shandong Province, China, covering an area of more than 1,400 square kilometers. This pioneering multiyear international project transformed the archaeological understanding of regional settlement patterns from the Neolithic to the Han period in southeastern Shandong. As an update of the 2012 synthesis published in Chinese, this volume is the most detailed account of the project in English. The team discovered many new sites, including the earliest known Neolithic settlements in the area, and revealed distinctly different regional settlement patterns in the hinterlands of the two largest late Neolithic sites, Liangchengzhen and Yaowangcheng. The book includes field procedures, methods of analysis, and descriptions of major sites generously illustrated with maps as well as photographs of key artifacts and archaeological localities. Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
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• Generational mobility and complexity in southeastern Burkina Faso
• Ethnoecology of southeastern Burkina Faso
• The Maadaga Archaeological Survey: methodologies and relative chronology
• Broad-spectrum foragers of teh Gobnangou: the Lithic occupation
• Adopting agriculture: the Pwoli occupation
• Generational mobility and household networks: the Siga occupation
• Indigo and the escarpment: the Tuali occupation
• Situating the archaeology of southeastern Burkina Faso

An exploration of political strategies, economic practices, and land use in a region inhabited by precolonial West African Gulmance kingdoms This volume explores the relationships among political strategies, economic practices, and land use in a region inhabited by precolonial West African Gulmance kingdoms. It proposes that variability in farming practices and landscape use was driven by political choices in land use in the early second millennium CE, a shift from the more sedentary farming households of the first millennium CE. Documenting two seasons of fieldwork, this book contains location photographs, site plans, a site catalog, and a pottery assemblage overview.
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A unique volume showcasing new data for the regional prehistoric cultural sequence of the Upper Huallaga Basin in Peru This volume presents a new look at prehistoric settlement patterns in the Upper Huallaga Basin, Peru, from the Preceramic to the Late Intermediate Period. Though the political climate precluded investigations in this area after the 1960s, Matsumoto integrates all research from previous work in this region to provide a comprehensive description and interpretation of the culture-historical sequence, revealing a unique historical process characterized by a lack of regional integration. The appendices, compiled from unpublished 1960s site reports, are particularly important.
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We provide a general compilation of the diversity and geographical distribution of Amazonian fishes, updated to the end of 2018. Our database includes documented distributions of 4214 species (both Amazonian and from surrounding basins), compiled from published information plus original data from ichthyological collections. Our results show that the Amazon basin comprises the most diverse regional assemblage of freshwater fishes in the world, with 2716 valid species (1696 of which are endemic) representing 529 genera, 60 families, and 18 orders. These data permit a view of the diversity and distribution of Amazonian fishes on a basinwide scale, which in turn allows the identification of congruent biogeographical patterns, here defined as the overlapping distributions of two or more lineages (species or monophyletic groups). We recognize 20 distinct distributional patterns of Amazonian fishes, which are herein individually delimited, named, and diagnosed. Not all these patterns are associated with identifiable geographical barriers, and some may result from ecological constraints. All the major Amazonian subdrainages fit into more than one biogeographical pattern. This fact reveals the complex history of hydrographical basins and shows that modern basin-defined units contribute relatively little as explanatory factors for the present distributions of Amazonian fishes. An understanding of geomorphological processes and associated paleographic landscape changes provides a far better background for interpreting observed patterns. Our results are expected to provide a framework for future studies on the diversification and historical biogeography of the Amazonian aquatic biota

• Wealth in people: an alternative perspective on Initial period monumental architecture from the Caballo Muerto Complex / Jason Nesbitt
• Early settlement and cultural landscape in the Tembladera area of the middle Jequetepeque Valley / Eisei Tsurumi
• Intraregional competition and interregional reciprocity: formative social organization on the north-central coast / Koichiro Shibata
• New insights into the architecture and organization of Cardal / Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar
• The problem with Anchucaya: site formation processes at Initial period and Early Horizon sites in the Central Andes / Christopher Milan
• Socioeconomic transformations at the ceremonial center of Kuntur Wasi: raw materials, craft production, and leadership / Kinya Inokuchi, Isabelle Druc
• A shift in the use of animals in the northern highlands Formative period: climate change or social adaptation? / Kazuhiro Uzawa
• Emergence of power during the Formative period at the Pacopampa Site / Yuji Seki, Diana Aleman Paredes, Mauro Ordoñez Livia, and Daniel Morales Chocano
• Monumental architecture, stars, and mounds at the Temple of Pacopampa: the rising azimuth of the Pleiades and changing concepts of landscape / Masato Sakai, Shinpei Shibata, and Toshihiro Takasaki, Juan Pablo Villanueva, Yuji Seki
• Diachronic changes in sociopolitical developments and interregional interaction in the Early Horizon eastern montane forest / Ryan Clasby
• South of Chavin: Initial period and Early Horizon interregional interactions between the Central Highlands and south coast / Yuichi Matsumoto
• Changing interpretations of early Central Andean civilization / Richard L. Burger

"This Yale University Publications in Anthropology volume presents investigations of Peruvian archaeological sites, focusing on early developments in coastal, highland, and cloud forest environments. The contributors provide new perspectives on early Andean civilization by exploring patterns of interaction, authority, and socioeconomic organization during the first and second millennia B.C. in the Central Andes of Peru. Large-scale subjects such as architecture, organization, technology, and ideology are examined, in addition to fine-grained topics including animal bones, pottery style and technology, site orientation, and religious iconography." -- Publisher's website

• Dorcas Cummings Lecture: Dorcas Cummings Lecture

Summary: Order and Disorder in Brains and Behavior
"Topics addressed at the 2019 Symposium included RNA-based structures; RNA modifications; nuclear localization of RNA;quality control and editing; RNA and gene regulation; cotranscriptional splicing; intron-exon boundaries;alternative polyadenylation; transposon control; small noncoding RNAs; long noncoding RNAs; RNA anddevelopment; membraneless organelles; phase separation; RNA-based diseases; and novel RNA functions."--Foreword

• Psychiatric Neuroscience: Challenges and Opportunities in Psychiatric Neuroscience / Joshua A. Gordon, Julie A. Frost Bellgowan, Collene Lawhorn, and Rachel B. Scheinert
• The Neurobiology of Confidence: From Beliefs to Neurons / Torben Ott, Paul Masset, and Adam Kepecs
• Causal Inference on Pathophysiological Mediators in Psychiatry / Ho Namkung, Brian J. Lee, and Akira Sawa

• Neurodevelopment and Synapses: Parvalbumin Interneuron Plasticity for Consolidation of Reinforced Learning / Matteo Tripodi, Komal Bhandari, Ananya Chowdhury, Arghya Mukherjee, and Pico Caroni
• Adolescence and "Late Blooming" Synapses of the Prefrontal Cortex / Kristen Delevich, A. Wren Thomas, and Linda Wilbrecht
• The Synaptomic Theory of Behavior and Brain Disease / Seth G.N. Grant

• Sleep and Neuromodulation: Genetic Mechanisms Underlying Sleep / Hirofumi Toda, Mi Shi, Julie A. Williams, and Amita Sehgal
• Brain Circuitry for Arousal from Apnea / Clifford B. Saper and Satvinder Kaur
• Computational Underpinnings of Neuromodulation in Humans / P. Read Montague and Kenneth T. Kishida
• Multiple Dopamine Systems: Weal and Woe of Dopamine / Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida and Naoshige Uchida

• Social Behavior: Neuropeptidergic Control of an Internal Brain State Produced by Prolonged Social Isolation Stress / Moriel Zelikowsky, Keke Ding, and David J. Anderson
• The Hippocampus and Social Impairment in Psychiatric Disorders / Matthew Schafer and Daniela Schiller
• Nucleus Accumbens Modulation in Reward and Aversion / Anna M. Klawonn and Robert C. Malenka

• Neurological Health: Epigenetic Priming in Drug Addiction / Philipp Mews, Deena M. Walker, and Eric J. Nestler
• Decoding Depression: Insights from Glial and Ketamine Regulation of Neuronal Burst Firing in Lateral Habenula / Yihui Cui, Yan Yang, Yiyan Dong, and Hailan Hu
• Improving Mouse Models for Dementia. Are All the Effects in Tau Mouse Models Due to Overexpression? / Zelah Joel, Pablo Izquierdo, Dervis A. Salih, Jill C. Richardson, Damian M. Cummings, and Frances A. Edwards
• Distinct Conformers of Assembled Tau in Alzheimer's and Pick's Diseases / Michel Goedert, Benjamin Falcon, Wenjuan Zhang, Bernardino Ghetti, and Sjors H.W. Scheres

• Treatments: Rewiring the Addicted Brain: Circuits-Based Treatment for Addiction / Graziella Madeo and Antonello Bonci
• Investigating the Therapeutic Mechanism of Cannabidiol in a Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC)-Based Model of Dravet Syndrome / Yishan Sun and Ricardo E. Dolmetsch
• A Network Explanation of Alzheimer's Regional Vulnerability / Scott A. Small and Larry W. Swanson
• Current Status of Deep Brain Stimulation for Alzheimer's Disease: From Chance Observation to Clinical Trials / Darrin J. Lee and Andres M. Lozano
• Benefits of Enhancing Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Levels in Damaged or Diseased Nerve Cells / Andrew A. Pieper and Steven L. McKnight

• Dorcas Cummings Lecture: Dorcas Cummings Lecture

• Conversations at the Symposium: A Conversation with Edward Boyden
• A Conversation with Yang Dan
• A Conversation with Ricardo Dolmetsch
• A Conversation with Paul Glimcher
• A Conversation with Michel Goedert
• A Conversation with Joshua A. Gordon
• A Conversation with Adam Kepecs
• A Conversation with Robert C. Malenka
• A Conversation with Helen Mayberg
• A Conversation with P. Read Montague
• A Conversation with Michael Platt
• A Conversation with Daniela Schiller
• A Conversation with Scott Small
• A Conversation with Beth Stevens
• A Conversation with Li-Huei Tsai
• A Conversation with Kay Tye
• A Conversation with Mehmet Fatih Yanik
• A Conversation with Huda Zoghbi

Summary: Order and Disorder in Brains and Behavior
"Topics addressed at the Symposium included the cellular basis of neurodegeneration, memory systems and aging, neural circuits of anxiety, addiction circuits and treatment frontiers, sleep and sleep disorders,hormonal regulation and mood disorders, cortico-striatal circuits in perception and action, deep brain stimulation for psychiatry, computational psychiatry, development of social cognition, restoration of vision, brainmachine interfaces, and new techniques for human brain manipulation."--Foreword

• Chromatin, histones, and instability
• Chromosome biology and genome architecture
• Centromeres and kinetochores
• Organizing chromosomes during segregation
• Mitosis and cell cycle
• Meiosis
• Germ cells, imprinting, gene dosage, and regulation
• Heterochromatin, errors, and damage
• Dorcas Cummings lectures.

• The Middle Senegal Valley archaeological project: seeking Takrur / Susan Keech McIntosh
• Background to the research / Roderick J. McIntosh and Susan Keech McIntosh
• Excavation methodology / Roderick J. McIntosh
• The Cubalel and Siwré excavations / Roderick J. McIntosh and Susan Keech McIntosh, with contributions by Hamady Bocoum, Ndèye Sokhna Guèye, and Ibrahima Thiaw
• Importance of excavated features along the Middle Senegal Valley / Hamady Bocoum
• The Cubalel and Siwré pottery assemblages / Susan Keech McIntosh and Ndèye Sokhna Guèye
• Small finds / Roderick J. McIntosh
• Iron working in the Middle Senegal Valley / David J. Killick
• Copper alloys / Thomas R. Fenn and David J. Killick
• Paleoethnobotanical analysis: seeds and fruits from Cubalel Unit C-3A / Daphne Gallagher and Shawn Murray
• Mammalian, avian, and reptilian remains / Kevin C. MacDonald and Rachel Hutton MacDonald
• Fish remains from Cubalel and Siwré / Wim Van Neer
• Reconnaissance of the Cubalel study region / Roderick J. McIntosh and Alioune Deme
• Overview and conclusions / Susan Keech McIntosh and Roderick J. McIntosh
• Appendix A. Excavation and survey field forms
• Appendix B. Excavated levels and features at Cubalel and Siwré / Roderick J. McIntosh, Susan Keech McIntosh, and Hamady Bocoum
• Appendix C. Archaeomagnetic dating in the Middle Senegal Valley / Ibrahima Thiaw and Tom Gray
• Appendix D. Pottery of the Cubalel and Siwré sites
• Appendix E. Iron and slag recovered from the Cubalel and Siwré sites
• Appendix F. Paleoethnobotanical identification / Shawn Murray and Daphne Gallagher
• Appendix G. Faunal remains.

An authoritative summary of the results of the archaeological excavations in the middle Senegal River valley, site of the ancient African Empire of Takrur. A summary of archaeological discoveries in the middle Senegal River valley, this authoritative volume presents new data on iron production, population settlement, and environmental change on the site of the ancient West African empire of Takrur, the first kingdom south of the Sahara mentioned by medieval Arab chroniclers. This authoritative volume should prove of great value to students of archaeology, anthropology, and African history, as well as to climatologists, geomorphologists, and ecologists.
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• Symposium participants
• Foreword. Cancer stem cells : Normal and neoplastic stem cells / Melissa N. McCracken, Benson M. George, Kevin S. Kao, Kristopher D. Marjon, Tal Raveh, and Irving L. Weissman
• Targeting the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition: the case for differentiation-based therapy / Diwakar R. Pattabiraman and Robert A. Weinberg
• Trimming the vascular tree in tumors: metabolic and immune adaptations / Elizabeth Allen, Rindert Missiaen, and Gabriele Bergers
• Cell of origin and cancer stem cells in tumor suppressor mouse models of Glioblastoma / Sheila R. Alcantara Llaguno, Zuanhua Xie, and Luis F. Parada. Genetics and epigenetics : The enigma of p53 / Guillermina Lozano
• Alterations in three-dimensional organization of the cancer genome and epigenome / Joanna Achinger-Kawecka, Phillippa C. Taberlay, and Susan J. Clark
• COmposition and function of mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes in human disease / John L. Pulice and Cigall Kadoch
• The essential transcriptional function of BRD4 in acute myeloid leukemia / Jae-Seok Roe and Christopher R. Vakoc. Metabolism : Reexamining how cancel cells exploit the body's metabolic resources : Craig B. Thompson and Wilhelm Palm
• Autophagy, metabolism, and cancer / Jessie Yanxiang Guo and Eileen White
• A time for MYC: metabolism and therapy / Chi V. Dang
• Beyond the oncogene revolution: four new ways to combat cancer / Thorsten Berger, Mary E. Saunders, and Tak W. Mak
• Lipid synthesis is a metabolic liability of non-small cell lung cancer / Robert U. Svensson and Reuben J. Shaw. Targets, vaccines, and therapeutics : Cancer immunogenomics: computational neoantigen identification and vaccine design / Jasreet Hundal, Christopher A. Miller, Malachi Griffith, Obi L. Griffith, Jason Walker, Susanna Kiwala, Aaron Graubert, Joshua McMichauel, Adam Coffman, and Elaine R. Mardis
• Targeting HIF2 in clear cell renal cell carcinoma / Hyejin Cho and William G. Kaelin
• BET bromodomain proteins as cancer therapeutic targets / Shaokun Shu and Kornelia Polyak
• To prime, or not to prime: that is the question / Danielle S. Potter and Anthony Letai
• Genetic dissection of cancer development, therapy response, and resistance in mouse models of breast cancer / Stefano Annunziato, Marco Barazas, Sven Rottenberg, and Jos Jonkers. Microenvironment and metastasis : Tumor-stroma interactions in bone metastasis: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic implications / Hanqiu Zheng, Wenyang Li, and Yibin Kang
• Cancer, oxidative stress, and metastasis / Jennifer G. Gill, Elena Piskounova, and Sean J. Morrison
• RON signaling is a key mediator of tumor progression in many human cancers / Najme Faham and Alana L. Welm
• Physical and chemical gradients in the tumor microenvironment regulate tumor cell invasion, migration, and metastasis / Madeleine J. Oudin and Valerie M. Weaver. Models of cancer : Pathways involved in formation of mammary organoid architecture have keys to understanding drug resistance and to discovery of druggable targets / Saori Furuta and Mina J. Bissell
• Explaining the paucity of intratumoral T cells: a construction out of known entities / Douglas T. Fearon
• Modeling breast cancer intertumor and intratumour heterogeneity using xenografts / Alejandra Bruna, Oscar M. Rueda, and Carlos Caldas
• Challenges and opportunities in modeling pancreatic cancer / Michael E. Feigin and David A. Tuveson. Cancer genomics and tumor heterogeneity : Functional genomic characterization of cancer genomes / Thomas P. Howard, Francisca Vazquez, Aviad Tsherniak, Andrew L. Hong, Mik Rinne, Andrew J. Aguirre, Jesse S. Boehm, and William C. Hahn
• How cancer genomics drives cancer biology: does synthetic lethality explain mutually exclusive oncogenic mutations? / Harold Varmus, Arun M. Unni, and William W. Lockwood
• A pipeline for drug target identification and validation / Eusebio Manchado, Chun-Hao Huang, Nilgun Tasdemir, Darjus F. Tschaharganeh, John E. Wilkinson, and Scott W. Lowe
• SIngle-cell analysis of circulating tumor cells as a window into tumor heterogeneity ? David T. Miyamoto, David T. Ting, Mehmet TOner, Shyamala Maheswaran, and Daniel A. Haber
• Discovery of double-stranded genomic DNA in circulating exosomes / Raghu Kalluri and Valerie S. LeBleu. Summary : Moving closer to victory / Taru Muranen and Joan S. Brugge. Dorcas Cummings lecture : Charles Sawyers. Conversations at the symposium : Gabriele Bergers
• Joan Brugge
• Karen Cichowski
• Susan Clark
• Gerard Evan
• Daniel Haber
• William Kaelin
• Raghu Kalluri
• Scott Lowe
• Guillermina (Gigi) Lozano
• David Lyden
• Elaine Mardis
• Sean Morrison
• Benjamin Neel
• Luis Parada
• Sir Michael Stratton
• David Tuveson
• Christopher Vakoc
• Harold Varmus
• Karen Vousden
• Valerie Weaver
• Robert Weinberg
• Eileen White. Author index. Subject index.

The 81st Cold Spring Harbor Symposium focused on Targeting Cancer. The implications of how the underlying science can drive improvements in diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic approaches was a major theme throughout the Symposium. The topics covered at the meeting included: Cancer Genes and Genomes; Cancer Pathways; Tumor Cell Biology; Cancer Growth & Progression; Innate & Adaptive Immune Responses; and Enabling Technologies. Several speakers participated in interviews during the course of the Symposium week and transcripts of those videos and the Dorcas Cummings lecture are included.

• Symposium participants
• Foreword
• Gene control. Imaging transcription: past, present and future / Robert A. Coleman, Zhe Liu, Xavier Darzacq, Robert Tijan, Robert H. Singer, and Timothée Lionnet
• Visualizing the HoxD gene cluster at the nanoscale level / Pierre J. Fabre, Alexander Benke, Suliana Manley, and Denis Duboule
• Transcriptional enhancers: bridging the genome and phenome / Bing Ren and Feng Yue
• Regulatory principles governing tissue specificity of developmental enhancers / Emma K. Farley, Katrina M. Olson, and Michael S. Levine
• The importance of controlling transcription elongation at coding and noncoding RNA loci / Benjamin S. Scruggs and Karen Adelman
• Chromatin domains and nuclear position. Regulatory domains and their mechanisms / Nezha S. Benabdallah and Wendy A. Bickmore
• Large-scale chromatin structure-function relationships during the cell cycle and development: insights from replication timing / Vishnu Dileep, Juan Carlos Rivera-Mulia, Jiao Sima, and David M. Gilbert
• Prenucleosomes and active chromatin / Mai T. Khuong, Jia Fei, Haruhiko Ishii, and James T. Kadonaga
• HIPMap: a high-throughput imaging method for mapping spatial gene positions / Sigal Schachar, Gianluca, Pegoraro, and Tom Misteli
• Genome organization and chromosome architecture / Giorgio Bernardi
• Genome stability. A system to study aneuploidy in vivo / Sarah J. Pfau and Angelika Amon
• Resolution of recombination intermediates: mechanisms and regulation / Stephen C. West, Miguel G. Blanco, Ying Wait Chan, Joao Matos, Shriparna Sarbajna, and Haley D.M. Wyatt
• 21st century genetics: mass spectrometry of yeast telomerase / Kah Wai Lin and Virginia A. Zakian
• From mutational mechanisms in single cells to mutational patterns in cancer genomes / Cheng-Zhong Zhang and David Pellman
• The evolution of tumors in mice and humans with germline p53 mutations / Arnold J. Levine, Chang S. Chan, Crissy Dudgeon, Anna Puzio-Kuter, and Pierre Hainaut
• Germ cells and early development. Mechanism and reconstitution in vitro of germ cell development in mammals / Kazuki Kurimoto and Mitinori Saitou
• Erase-maintain-establish: natural reprogramming of the mammalian epigenome / Milena Leseva, Barbara B. Knowles, Daniel M. Messerschmidt, and Davor Solter
• Regulation of reprogramming and cellular plasticity through histone exchange and histone variant incorporation / Xavier Gaume and Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla
• ZFP57 and the targeted maintenance of postfertilization genomic imprints / Nozomi Takahashi, Dionne Gray, Ruslan Strogantsev, Angela Noon, Celia Delahaye, William C. Skarnes, Peri H. Tate, and Anne C. Ferguson-Smith
• Embryonic stem cells and development. Biological networks governing the acquisition, maintenance and dissolution of pluripotency: insights from functional genomics approaches / Kevin Andrew Uy Gonzales and Huck-Hui Ng
• Monitoring dynamics of DNA methylation at single-cell resolution during development and disease / Yonatan Stelzer and Rudolf Jaenisch
• Perturbing chromatin structure to understand mechanisms of gene expression / Caroline R. Bartman and Gerd A. Blobel
• Mechanisms underlying the selection and function of macrophage-specific enhancers / Verena M. Link, David Gosselin, and Christopher K. Glass
• Metabolism and signaling. Clock-talk: interactions between central and peripheral circadian oscillators in mammals / Ueli Schibler, Ivana Gotic, Camille Saini, Pascal Gos, Thomas Curie, Yann Emmenegger, Flore Sinturel, Pauline Gosselin, Alan Gerber, Fabienne Fleury-Olela, Gianpaolo Rando, Maud Demarque, and Paul Franken
• Dissecting the rev-erba cistrome and the mechanisms controlling circadian transcription in liver / Bin Fang and Mitchell A. Lazar
• Modulating the genomic programming of adipocytes / Anne Loft, Søren Fisker Schmidt, and Susanne Mandrup
• Targeting transcriptional and epigenetic reprogramming in stromal cells in fibrosis and cancer / Nasun Hah, Mara H. Sherman, Ruth T. Yu, Michael Downes, and Ronald M. Evans
• Regulation of RORyt in inflammatory lymphoid cell differentiation / Wendy Huang and Dan R. Littman
• Evolution. How transcription networks evolve and produce biological novelty / Isabel Nocedal and Alexander D. Johnson
• The African turquoise killifish: a model for exploring vertebrate aging and diseases in the fast lane / Itamar Harel and Anne Brunet
• Transposable elements, polydactyl proteins, and the genesis of human-specific transcription networks / Didier Trono
• Dorcas Cummings lecture. Svante Pääbo
• Conversations at the symposium. Geneviève Almouzni
• Angelika Amon
• Julius Brennecke
• Emmanuelle Charpentier
• Job Dekker
• Titia de Lange
• Jennifer Doudna
• Denis Duboule
• Ron Evans
• Anne Ferguson-Smith
• Edith Heard
• David Kingsley
• Arnold Levine
• Susan Lindquist
• Dan Littman
• Richard Morimoto
• David Page
• Wolf Reik
• Bing Ren
• Ueli Schibler
• Davor Solter
• Alexander Tarakhovsky
• Joanna Wysocka
• Rick Young
• Author index
• Subject index.

• Introduction / D. Paddy Sleeman and Jens Carlsson
• Ireland, an unexpected focus for genetic biodiversity and the ecological implications / D. Paddy Sleeman
• The use of genetics to infer the origins of the terrestrial and freshwater element of the Irish fauna / Jens Carlsson, Tom F. Cross, Philip McGinnity, Paulo A. Prodöhl, and Allan D. McDevitt
• Ireland's native mammals : a survey of the archaeological record / Peter C. Woodman
• The origin of the Irish avifauna : a perspective from island biogeography theory / Thomas C. Kelly, Patrick Smiddy, and Conor T. Graham
• The Eurasian crane (Grus grus) in Ireland : another extinct bird or a key species for an ancient belief system? / Lorcán O'Toole
• Post-glaciation plant colonization of Ireland : fresh insights from An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr, western Ireland / Karen Molloy and Michael O'Connell
• Breeding birds in Ireland : success and failure among colonists / Patrick Smiddy
• What Ireland's soil macroinvertebrate fauna can tell us about postglacial colonization / Ruth Roland and Thomas Bolger
• Never mind the gap : climate, rather than insularity, may limit Ireland's species richness / Simon Harrison
• Did melting ice sheets create temporary low-salinity corridors that facilitated the natural colonization of Ireland by stenohaline fishes? / Declan T.G. Quigley
• Origin of the Holocene mammals of these islands / W. Ian Montgomery.

• Introduction
• Marae in the Society Islands
• The ritual landscape: architecture and spatial configuration of the ScMo-124/-125 complex
• Excavations at the ScMo-124/-125 complex
• Dating and chronology
• Ritual centers in the context of protohistoric Ma'ohi Society.

In 1946 and 1953, Irving "Ben" Rouse led archaeological excavations at prehistoric to protohistoric sites on the island of Trinidad. This book presents an analysis of these excavations-until now unpublished-relating the results of Rouse's work to subsequent research at these sites by other investigators and to current knowledge of Trinidad's cultural sequence and Amerindian ethnohistory. The first detailed study of indigenous cultural development in Trinidad covering its entire pre-Columbian through the historical Amerindian sequence, this work is a significant addition to the data on Caribbean archaeology.
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The late Cretaceous tyrannosaurid Alioramus altai is known from a single specimen whose articulated braincase exhibits a nearly unique combination of preservational quality, subadult stage of growth, and morphological complexity. We use a detailed physical preparation combined with high-resolution computed tomography to provide an expanded description of this braincase that includes details of the neurocranium and its dermal roof, pneumatic recesses and sinuses, cranial endocast, and inner ear cavities. A few notable features include a highly developed rostral tympanic recess marked by three pneumatic fenestrae, a highly pneumatic paroccipital process with both rostral and caudal pneumatic foramina, a prootic fossa housing external foramina for the trigeminal and facial nerves, a well-developed superficial lamina of the prootic, an expanded vestibular cavity, and an osseous labyrinth that is plesiomorphic in appearance. These observations, set within the currently available comparative context, elucidate numerous neuroanatomical transformations within Tyrannosauroidea and clarify where more data and work are needed. We expand the discussion for the 21 characters from the neurocranium utilized in a recent revision of tyrannosauroid phylogeny, including a listing of which tyrannosauroid taxa can be scored for the primitive and derived states of each character.

A new genus, Prodysderina, is established for a group of Neotropical oonopids belonging to the Dysderina complex and characterized by having a laterally incised, tuberculate, but unridged sternum, a groove connecting the posterior (but not the anterior) spiracles, and a male embolus with an elongated distal prong and a reduced proximal prong. Dysderina armata Simon is transferred to Prodysderina and selected as the type species; eight new species are described from Venezuela (P. megarmata, P. rollardae, P. janetae) and Colombia (P. piedecuesta, P. rasgon, P. santander, P. filandia, P. otun). The genus Aschnaoonops contains species that resemble those of Prodysderina but have a twisted (and usually basally widened) embolus in males, and a reduced genital atrium in females. That genus occurs in the Andes from Peru north to Colombia, east across northern South America, and north into the West Indies. Dysderina similis (Keyserling) and D. propinqua (Keyserling) from Colombia, and D. simla Chickering from Trinidad, are transferred to Aschnaoonops, and females of the two Keyserling species are described for the first time. One new species, A. silvae, has been taken by canopy fogging and appears to be widespread in the Amazonian portions of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. A total of 36 other new, ground-dwelling, microdistributed species are described: A. yasuni, A. tiputini, A. cosanga, A. ramirezi, A. jatun, and A. marshalli from Ecuador, A. leticia, A. orito, A. pira, A. paez, A. huila, A. meta, A. alban, A. chingaza, A. pamplona, A. pedro, and A. marta from Colombia, A. chorro, A. indio, A. tachira, A. tariba, A. teleferico, A. jaji, A. merida, A. aquada, A. masneri, A. trujillo, A. cristalina, A. bocono, A. simoni, and A. margaretae from Venezuela, A. malkini, A. caninde, and A. belem from Brazil, A. villalba from Puerto Rico, and A. gorda from the Virgin Islands. Another new genus, Bidysderina, is established for a group of species resembling those above in sternal structure but having differently constructed male palps; five new species (B. perdido, B. bifida, B. niarchos, B. wagra, B. cayambe) are described from Napo province, Ecuador.

The goblin spider genus Zyngoonops Benoit, 1977 is revised. The type and hitherto only species, Z. clandestinus Benoit from the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.), is redescribed on the basis of topotypical material. Nine new species are described from the D.R.C. (Z. moffetti, Z. redii, Z. goedaerti, Z. rockoxi, Z. beatriceae, Z. chambersi, Z. swammerdami, Z. marki) and the Central African Republic (Z. walcotti). Members of Zyngoonops show remarkable modifications of the sternum and pedicel tube: the sternum has two heavily sclerotized posterior extensions, and the pedicel tube has a protruding ventral lip. The female genitalia are complex, consisting of an epigastric scape, two uterine sclerites, and a long genital duct. In most species, the distal part of the duct is highly coiled. Males resemble those of Antoonops Fannes and Jocqué and Coxapopha Platnick in having elaborately modified endites, a pair of pleural flaps, and a carapace with extended anterolateral corners. The type species of Coxapopha is redescribed, and new images of the female genitalia of Antoonops and Coxapopha are provided. A cladistic analysis of morphological characters provides support for the monophyly of Zyngoonops and identifies Z. redii as the most basal species of the genus.