ADEN, GULF OFADDITIONAL READING


Meaning of ADEN, GULF OFADDITIONAL READING in English

The morphology, geology, and geophysics of the gulf and its surrounding areas are comprehensively covered in various articles in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A, vol. 267, no. 1181 (1970), which also contains up-to-date bathymetric and magnetic charts of the gulf itself. The hydrological structure of the water mass is described by V.A. Khimitsa in Oceanology, 8:318-322 (1968); while its physical and chemical properties are covered in the University of California, Institute of Marine Resources Report, I.M.R. Reference 67-12 (1967). culture of various communities of ancient North American Indians, about 500 BC-AD 100, centred in what is now southern Ohio. Groups in Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and possibly Pennsylvania bear similarities and are roughly grouped with the Adena culture. (The term Adena derives from the home of an early Ohio governor, located near Chillicothe, Ohio, around which Adena-type mounds were found.) The Adena usually lived in villages containing circular houses with conical roofs, constructed of poles, willows, and bark, though some of them lived in rock shelters. They subsisted by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plant foods. Their utensils consisted of such items as stone hoes, axes, and projectiles, stone smoking pipes, and simple pottery. Adena ornaments of copper, mica, and seashells attest to trade with faraway peoples. born Jan. 5, 1876, Cologne [now in Germany] died April 19, 1967, Rhndorf, W.Ger. first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany; 1949-63), presiding over its reconstruction after World War II. A Christian Democrat and firmly anticommunist, he supported NATO, and he worked to reconcile Germany with its former enemies, especially France.

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