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"Our results indicate a case of poor oral health during the Scandinavian Mesolithic, and show that pitch pieces have the potential to provide information on material use, diet and oral health."

Kırdök, E., Kashuba, N., Damlien, H. et al. Metagenomic analysis of Mesolithic chewed pitch reveals poor oral health among stone age individuals. Sci Rep 13, 22125 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-487 @archaeodons @science

"While we detect long-term shifts in local genetic ancestry in Cambridgeshire, we find no evidence of major changes in genetic ancestry nor higher differentiation of immune loci between cohorts living before and after the Black Death."

Ruoyun Hui et al., Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death. Sci. Adv. 10, eadi5903 (2024). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi5903 @science @anthropology @archaeodons @biology

"Less appreciated, however, are the deep historical roots of this convergence process, and in particular of the spread of modern industry to the global periphery. This book fills this gap by providing a systematic, comparative, historical account of the spread of modern manufacturing beyond its traditional heartland, to Southern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America, or what we call the poor periphery."

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj, and Jeffrey Gale Williamson (eds), The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871 (Oxford, 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Mar. 2017), doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/978, accessed 12 Jan. 2024. @econhist @historyofeconomics @bookstodon (75)

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"This article examines veiling and head-covering as a complex social practice shaped by numerous intersectional and situational factors beyond religion, including status, practicality, fashion and social context."

Grace Stafford, Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity: Between Ideology, Aesthetics and Practicality, Past & Present, 2024;, gtad017, doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtad017 @histodon @histodons @antiquidons

"This paper documents the persistence of Southern slave owners in political power after the American Civil War. Using data from Texas, we show that former slave owners made up more than half of all state legislators until the late 1890s."

Bellani, L., Hager, A. and Maurer, S. E. (2022) “The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking,” The Journal of Economic History. Cambridge University Press, 82(1), pp. 250–283. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0022050721000 @historyofeconomics @histodon @histodons

"Dating from the Late third millennium BCE, the ramparts of Khaybar were probably built by indigenous populations as they settled down and ostentatiously demarcated their oasis territory. These ramparts lasted for several centuries before being dismantled or replaced by more recent structures." doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023. @archaeodons

"Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461 focusses on the enduring position of ancient Persia in Byzantine cultural memory, encompassing both in the ‘religious’ and the ‘secular’ significance. By analysing a wide range of historical sources – from church literature to belles- lettres – this book examines the intricate relationship between ancient Persia and Byzantine cultural memory, as well as the integration and function of Persian motifs in the Byzantine mentality."

Shukurov, R. (2023). Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461 (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003205197 @bookstodon (74)

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"We argue that during the Late Iron IIA, the Kingdom of Israel, probably under the Omrides, replaced a small Phoenician village with a fortified casemate enclosure in order to control and institutionalise the production of the dye and other industries. These peaked under Jeroboam II, and subsequently the fort was ravaged during the period of unrest in Israel after this monarch’s reign."

Golan Shalvi & Ayelet Gilboa (2023) Between Israel and Phoenicia: The Iron IIA–B Fortified Purple-dye Production Centre at Tel Shiqmona, Tel Aviv, 50:1, 75-110, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/03344355.2023. @archaeodons

"While much has been written about the passive voice in scientific writing, similar interest involving humanities writing in general has been more modest. A paucity of diachronic studies also raises the need to understand more about how passive use has changed over time and what such changes imply for the norms in academic writing."

Leong, P. A. (2021) “The passive voice in scholarly writing: A diachronic look at science and history”, Finnish Journal of Linguistics, 34, pp. 77–102. Available at: journal.fi/finjol/article/view (Accessed: 8January2024). @linguistics @writing

"He explores the practical implementation of the texts in their ancient setting through analyses of codicological aspects, paratextual elements, and scribal features. Linjamaa's research supports the hypothesis that the Nag Hammadi texts had their origins in Pachomian monasticism. He shows how Pachomian monks used the texts for textual edification, spiritual development and pedagogical practices."

Linjamaa P. The Nag Hammadi Codices and Their Ancient Readers: Exploring Textual Materiality and Reading Practice. Cambridge University Press; 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781009441483 @religion @bookstodon (73)

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A new map of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, from the latest authorities. By John Cary, engraver, 1801. London: Published by J. Cary, Engraver & Map-seller, No. 181, Strand, Augst. 1st., 1801. archive.org/details/dr_a-new-m via @internetarchive

credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

The World as known to the Ancients Drawn & Engraved for Dr. Playfair's Geography. N. Coltman delt Vauxhall. Published Novr. 4th 1808 by the Revd. Dr. Playfair, St. Andrews NB. B. Smith sculpt. Walworth. (1814) archive.org/details/dr_the-wor via @internetarchive @antiquidons

credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

"The essay shows that while the majority of research projects at SIRB concerned medical genetics in the years 1936−1960, racial science never disappeared. SIRB scientists engaged in theoretical debates on the concept of race and conducted racial surveys of the Swedish population, using anthropometry and later serology as research methods."

Martin Ericsson (2021) What happened to ‘race’ in race biology? The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology, 1936−1960, Scandinavian Journal of History, 46:1, 125-148, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2020. @science @biology

"The aim of this paper is to reflect on the characteristics and role of Sardinian maritime “enterprises” in the long-distance metal trade in the Mediterranean and beyond, including continental Europe."

Serena Sabatini & Fulvia Lo Schiavo (2020) Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 35:13, 1501-1518, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/10426914.2020. @archaeodons

"The ultimate objective of this work is to demonstrate that it is possible to reconsider the emergence of modern science as a process of disintegration of the quadrivium, which was considered a stable scheme for the organization of knowledge."

Valleriani M. (2022) From the Quadrivium to Modern Science. HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, Vol.16 (Issue 1), pp. 121-132. doi.org/10.2478/host-2022-0007 @science @medievodons

"This paper discusses the archive and library of the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society, as a starting point for research into the history of Dutch mathematics."

Danny J. Beckers, History of Mathematics in the Netherlands: where to find it. EMS Newsl. 107 (2018), pp. 23–27. DOI: doi.org/10.4171/news/107/5 @science

"This book does not attempt to answer this seemingly unsolvable puzzle either but aims to shed light on a simple fact usually overlooked by linguists and laypeople alike: the conceptual pair is not a timeless given but has a history, and a much shorter one than one might assume."

Van Rooy, Raf, Language or Dialect? The History of a Conceptual Pair (Oxford, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Nov. 2020), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845, accessed 24 Dec. 2023. @linguistics @medievodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (72)

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