CUMMINGS, V., & FOWLER, C. (2023). Materialising Descent: Lineage Formation and Transformation in Early Neolithic Southern Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2023.2 #Ancient #DNA #History #Archaeology #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Britain #histodon #histodons #archaeodons @histodon @histodons @science @archaeodons
Modern calendar and continued fractions. https://math.temple.edu/~yury/calendar/calendar.pdf #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #pdf @mathematics
Source: https://twitter.com/snezanalawrence/status/1669268600568401925
"Much of the modern physical description of electrical forces comes from careful experiments done by the French scientist Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806)." https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201606/physicshistory.cfm #History #Science #Physics #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science @physics
Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1669374285939367937
"If we leave biblical and New Testament authors out of the frame, Flavius Josephus (37–100+ CE) was the most consequential ancient writer in the West." https://themarginaliareview.com/why-josephus-matters/ #History #Essay #Philosophy #Theology #Ancient #Writing #Author #Books #histodon #histodons #bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/MarginaliaROB/status/1669004030658453506
"Tracking the story of this complex spiritual partnership provides intimate insights into the psychological stakes of the solitude tradition and its varying implications for women and men in Restoration Britain." https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtad007/7152305 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Britain #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/PastPresentSoc/status/1668939338007166981
Erasmus Studies Volume 43 (2023): Issue 1 (Jun 2023). https://brill.com/view/journals/eras/43/1/eras.43.issue-1.xml #OpenAccess #OA #History #Philosophy #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/Brill_History/status/1668976331990654988
Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida https://theconversation.com/linguists-have-identified-a-new-english-dialect-thats-emerging-in-south-florida-205620 #History #Languages #Linguistics #Culture #English #Sociolinguistics #Florida #Cuba #USA @linguistics
Source: https://twitter.com/ConversationUS/status/1668247996738199560
Megan Dent, Disraeli and the Bible, Journal of Victorian Culture, 2023;, vcad020, https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcad020 #OpenAccess #OA #Bible #History #Article #Britain #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
"Abu'l-Wafa is best known for the first use of the tan function and compiling tables of sines and tangents at 15' intervals. This work was done as part of an investigation into the orbit of the Moon, written down in Theories of the Moon." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abul-Wafa/ #History #Maths #Science @science
Source: https://twitter.com/StA_Maths_Stats/status/1667473952032030720
"..Naoíse Mac Sweeney examines why the West won’t die and, in the process, dismantles ahistorical concepts like the “clash of civilizations” and the notion of a linear progression from Greek and Roman ideals to those of our present day.." https://theamericanscholar.org/why-the-west-wont-die/ #History #Podcast #histodon #histodons #bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/TheAmScho/status/1667535840355004416
Simões, L.G., Günther, T., Martínez-Sánchez, R.M. et al. Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant. Nature (2023). https://rdcu.be/decJv #OpenAccess #OA #Biology #History #Archaeology #Science #Anthropology #Genetics #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
"Those ancient humans who might have scratched directions in the sand or carved lines on wood were the first to practice the art of symbolic representation in the form of a map." https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/oldest-maps-world #History #Anthropology #Map #Cartography #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @anthropology
Source: https://twitter.com/laphamsquart/status/1666465537533313024
Kimmo Katajala (2023) Inventing the Grand Duchy of Finland in the 1580s: early modern state formation or medieval patterns of expressing the power, Scandinavian Journal of History, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2023.2200805 #OpenAccess #OA #History #EarlyModern #Article #Scandinavia #Europe #Medieval #Finland #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Sara L. Uckelman (2023) John Eliot's Logick Primer: A Bilingual English-Massachusett Logic Textbook, History and Philosophy of Logic, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2023.2207244 #History #Philosophy #Logic #OpenAccess #OA #Article #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @philosophy
"As of today, anthropologists believe there were at least ten different occupations of Britain in c.900,000 years of British history that featured (at least) four human species." https://www.historyhit.com/who-were-the-first-britons/ #Ancient #History #Britain #Anthropology #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @anthropology
Source: https://twitter.com/ChrisStringer65/status/1666015158819250179
"He did important work on series and in optics and was a strong supporter of Newton in his dispute with Leibniz." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gregory_David/ #history #maths #math #mathematics #mathsodon #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/mathshistory/status/1664925647548841984
Scientist of the Day - Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/anaxagoras-of-clazomenae #History #Science #Philosophy #histodon #histodons
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"During the Late Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic, societies across the Levant transformed their social, cultural and economic organisation, with new forms of food production, architecture and material culture. But to what extent were regional developments connected and how, in particular, did ideas and objects flow between the most southern and northern reaches of Southwest Asia?" DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.67 #archaeology #history #neolithic #epipalaeolithic #iconography #culture #asia #openaccess #oa #histodon #histodons #archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/AntiquityJ/status/1664261784327290881
"Such documents provide important evidence for the level of literacy in the Roman world and offer an insight into the everyday lives of ordinary people." https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/251788 #history #rome #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
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