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Ornaments are polysemic objects due to different meanings they convey in human societies—self-embellishment,
means of exchange, markers of age and gender, indicators of social status, signs of power, non-verbal means of
expression and communication. Beads have a privileged place in shedding light on the origins of modern cognition
in human societies. While archaeological approaches to ancient symbolism have often been concerned with
behavioral modernity of our species, anthropological studies have underlined the role of ornaments in the construction

Edraianthus (Candolle 1830: 130) Candolle (1839: 149) (Campanulaceae Juss.) is a genus of 10–14 species with a centre of
distribution in the Balkans, while disjunctions occur in the central and southern Apennines (peninsular Italy), Sicily, and the
southern Carpathians (Stefanović et al. 2008).
Four species complexes were recognized by Stefanović et al. (2008) and Surina et al. (2009), i.e. “E. tenuifoliuscomplex”,
“E. pumilio-complex”, “E. serpyllifolius-complex”, and “E. graminifolius-complex”. The same authors (Stefanović

Melittio-Quercion frainetto and Melittio-Quercion confertae are two alliances, which were proposed
about simultaneously 40 years ago through two different papers regarding southern Italy and southern
Greece, respectively. The aims of this paper are to establish valid name, nomenclatural type and distribution
range of these two alliances and to verify whether they display a sufficient degree of syntaxonomic
autonomy when compared to the ecologically and geographically neighbouring alliances. A

The principle at the heart of the creation of the European Union and of the more extended European Economic Area is the assumption that economic interdependence and cooperation are harbingers of peace. The aim of the present work is to verify this assumption, to demonstrate the social and economic pillars of its success and to investigate the challenge it poses for development and sustainability. In this framework we will consider the impact of two development strategies in the Western Balkans.

This book examines the process of presidentialisation of political parties in the Western Balkans. The Western Balkan countries deserve to be analysed in a comparative perspective due to their distinctive features in terms of processes of democratization, forms of government and institutional assets, the presence of social cleavages (religious, linguistic, ethnic), and, of course, the nature of political parties which differs from other European cases, especially in terms of origins, organization and structure.

Lake Ohrid is considered as one of the deepest and oldest tectonic lake in Europe. A drilling campaign was carried out in 2013 as part of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), within the scope of the Scientific Collaboration on Past Speciation Conditions in Lake Ohrid (SCOPSCO) project. This lake is located at middle altitudes in a rift basin (693 m) surrounded by high mountain ranges and provides an excellent opportunity to study the impact of past climate changes on mid- to high-altitude forests.

In this paper new records are reported for 23 species of small terrestrial mammals (STM) of Albania collected during the field work campaigns organised in the framework of the project “Strengthening capacity in National Nature Protection – preparation for Natura 2000 network” (NaturAL) in Albania during the summer and autumn of 2016 and 2017 Data on small mammals were primarily collected through Sherman live-trapping campaigns in six high priority protected areas of Albania: Korab-Koritnik, Bredhi i Hotovës, Tomorri, Llogara-Karaburun, Divjakë-Karavasta, Liqeni i Shkodrës (Skadar lake), Lëp

The relationships between the Aegean and the central Mediterranean during the second half of the 3rd millennium BC have been recently discussed by J. Maran and other scholars, who have focussed their attention particularly on Greece and the Balkans yet highlighting the connections between these regions and southern Italy, Sicily and the Maltese archipelago. Nonetheless some issues remain to be examined in more detail. Firstly, the chronological framework of the different areas involved in this phenomenon as well as the time-scale of these connections has yet to be refined.

The anthropogenic therophitic grasslands dominated by tall Poaceae of Italy were recently included in the alliance Securigero securidacae-Dasypyrion villosi (Chenopodietea). Similar vegetation types from Sicily, Sardinia, Albania, and Greece were hypothesized to pertain to this syntaxon. In this work, we performed multivariate analyses on 493 phytosociological relevés certainly or likely ascribable to the alliance, gathering personal unpublished data and those available from literature.