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"The following review of the archeological and document evidence indicates that three events occurring in the first half of the first millennium BC trigger the emergence of a specialized and integrated classical economy after 500 BC: (i) growth in demand for silver as a medium of exchange in economies in the Near East; (ii) technical breakthroughs in hull construction and sailing rig in merchant shipping of the late Bronze Age; (iii) perfection of ferrous metallurgy into the European hinterland."

Grantham, G. (2021). THE PREHISTORIC ORIGINS OF EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION. Social Philosophy and Policy, 38(2), 261-306. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052522000140 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Economics #Philosophy #Economy #Europe #Trade #BronzeAge #IronAge #History #Agriculture #Writing #Literacy #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics @econhist @philosophy

"The early alphabet developed in association with Western Asiatic (Canaanite) miners in Sinai (or, at least, was taken up by them) during the Middle Kingdom in the eighteenth century BC. We suggest that early alphabetic writing spread to the Southern Levant during the late Middle Bronze Age (with the Lachish Dagger probably being the earliest attested example), and was in use by at least the mid fifteenth century BC at Tel Lachish."

Höflmayer, F., Misgav, H., Webster, L., & Streit, K. (2021). Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: The ‘missing link’ from Tel Lachish. Antiquity, 95(381), 705-719. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.157 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #BronzeAge #Writing #Archaeology #Antiquity #Epigraphy #History #Histodon #Histodons @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

"The Syriac language has, among all the Aramaic varieties, by far the largest number of terms for ‘comet’ or ‘meteor’. Is there a simple explanation for this fact?"

Stefanie Rudolf, “A great star falls”—cometology in Syriac language and literature, Journal of Semitic Studies, 2023;, fgad041, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad041 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Language #Languages #Literature #Linguistics #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics

"The Y-chromosomal variation in South Kazakh clans indicates their common origin in 13th–14th centuries AD, in agreement with the traditional genealogy. Though genetically there were at least three ancestral lineages instead of the traditional single ancestor."

Zhabagin, M., Sabitov, Z., Tarlykov, P. et al. The medieval Mongolian roots of Y-chromosomal lineages from South Kazakhstan. BMC Genet 21 (Suppl 1), 87 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-020-00897-5 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Article #Human #Genetics #Medieval #Kazakh #Mongol @science

"The primary objectives of this study were to assess the paternal genetic variation in Altaian Kazakh populations and their population histories, to understand the paternal origins of Kazakhs, and to elucidate the process by which this ethnic group formed."

Dulik MC, Osipova LP, Schurr TG (2011) Y-Chromosome Variation in Altaian Kazakhs Reveals a Common Paternal Gene Pool for Kazakhs and the Influence of Mongolian Expansions. PLOS ONE 6(3): e17548. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017548 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Article #Kazakh #Population #Genetics #PopulationGenetics #Asia @science

"Here, we provide a comparative survey of the archaeological record of over half a millennium within the entire northern littoral of the Mediterranean, from Greece to Iberia, incorporating archaeological, archaeometric, and bioarchaeological evidence."

Iacono, F., Borgna, E., Cattani, M. et al. Establishing the Middle Sea: The Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC). J Archaeol Res 30, 371–445 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-021-09165-1 #OpenAccess #OA #Reserach #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #BronzeAge #Mediterranean #Europe @archaeodons

🇲🇳 " We observed that our studied Mongolians were structured into three distinct genetic clusters possessing different genetic affinity with previous studied Inner Mongolians and Mongols and various Eastern and Western Eurasian ancestries: two subgroups harbored dominant Eastern Eurasian ancestry from Neolithic millet farmers of Yellow River Basin; another subgroup derived Eastern Eurasian ancestry primarily from Neolithic hunter-gatherers of North Asia."

Yang X, Sarengaowa, He G, Guo J, Zhu K, Ma H, Zhao J, Yang M, Chen J, Zhang X, Tao L, Liu Y, Zhang X-F and Wang C-C (2021) Genomic Insights Into the Genetic Structure and Natural Selection of Mongolians. Front. Genet. 12:735786. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.735786 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Mongolia #Mongolian #Genetics #Anthropology #Population #Asia #STEM #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @anthropology

MAIOCCHI, M. (2019). WRITING IN EARLY MESOPOTAMIA: The Historical Interplay of Technology, Cognition, and Environment. In A. C. LOVE & W. C. WIMSATT (Eds.), Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution (pp. 395–424). University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctvnp0krm.13 #OpenAccess #OA #Writing #Mesopotamia #Culture #History #Technology #Cognition #Environment #Academia #Academic #Academics

"During the last ten years writers from France, the United States and Spanish America, and, although rarely, also in other countries, have begun to use the terms Latin America, Latin American, for the old and proper terms Spanish America, Spanish American. A third term, Ibero America, Ibero American, is also used by recent writers. Which are the proper terms? Which should we use? In the following article I beg to discuss this matter briefly."

Espinosa, Aurelio M. “The Term Latin America.” Hispania 1, no. 3 (1918): 135–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/331596. #OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Language #Langauges #Words #Latin #America #English #Spanish

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🇬🇧 "This article recovers some of the classical, constitutional, and religious languages of empire in early-modern Britain by a consideration of the period between the end of the first Anglo-Dutch war in 1654 and the calling of the second Protectoral Parliament in 1656."

Armitage, David. 1992. The Cromwellian Protectorate and the languages of empire. Historical Journal 35(3): 531-555. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3373617 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histodons #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #C17th #17thCentury #EarlyModern #Empire #Language #Languages @histodon @histodons

🇮🇷 "The results show an autochthonous but non-homogeneous ancient background mainly composed by J2a sub-clades with different external contributions. The phylogeography of the main haplogroups allowed identifying post-glacial and Neolithic expansions toward western Eurasia but also recent movements towards the Iranian region from western Eurasia (R1b-L23), Central Asia (Q-M25), Asia Minor (J2a-M92) and southern Mesopotamia (J1-Page08)."

Grugni V, Battaglia V, Hooshiar Kashani B, Parolo S, Al-Zahery N, et al. (2012) Ancient Migratory Events in the Middle East: New Clues from the Y-Chromosome Variation of Modern Iranians. PLOS ONE 7(7): e41252. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041252 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Biology #Genetics #Ancient #Neolithic #DNA #Iran #MiddleEast #Eurasia #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

"Matthew Leporati argues that the epic revival not only reflects but also interrogates this evangelical turn. The first to examine the impact of the missionary work on epic literature, this book offers sustained analysis of both under-read and canonical works, bringing fresh historical and literary contexts to bear on our understanding of this unique revival of epic poetry."

Leporati, M. (2023). Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009285155 #OpenAccess #OA #Literature #C18th #C19th #Britain #British #Romanticsim #Empire #Imperialism #Poem #Poetry #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon (66)

"Using formal analysis, statistical methodology, and computer processing, we present the cartographic characteristics of each one and relate them to their historical context, updating the scarce information available until now."

Pablo-Martí, F., López-Requena, J. The Spanish Gough maps: first pre-postal maps of the Iberian Peninsula in its European context. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 10, 716 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02178-9 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Geography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Map #Maps #Cartography #Europe @histodon @histodons

"The investigation shows that the Kvens constituted a group of Finnish speaking people existing in continuity from the Viking Age. Their core territory was situated in the upper Gulf of Bothnia area. When this was integrated into the Swedish kingdom the inhabitants were designated Finns by the Swedes."

Lars Elenius (2019) The dissolution of ancient Kvenland and the transformation of the Kvens as an ethnic group of people. On changing ethnic categorizations in communicative and collective memories, Acta Borealia, 36:2, 117-148, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2019.1681225 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Ethnicity #Medieval #History #Histodon #Histodons #Viking #Finnish #Finn #Nordic #Scandinavia #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @medievodons

"Here we analyze historical and recent observations to show that ocean heat uptake has accelerated dramatically since the 1990s, nearly doubling during 2010–2020 relative to 1990–2000."

Li, Z., England, M.H. & Groeskamp, S. Recent acceleration in global ocean heat accumulation by mode and intermediate waters. Nat Commun 14, 6888 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42468-z #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Oceanography #Ocean #Oceans #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

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"We present 14 new ancient mitogenome sequences from pre-Phoenician (~1800 BCE) and Phoenician (~700–400 BCE) samples from Lebanon (n = 4) and Sardinia (n = 10) and compare these with 87 new complete mitogenomes from modern Lebanese and 21 recently published pre-Phoenician ancient mitogenomes from Sardinia to investigate the population dynamics of the Phoenician (Punic) site of Monte Sirai, in southern Sardinia."

Matisoo-Smith E, Gosling AL, Platt D, Kardailsky O, Prost S, et al. (2018) Ancient mitogenomes of Phoenicians from Sardinia and Lebanon: A story of settlement, integration, and female mobility. PLOS ONE 13(1): e0190169. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190169 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Neolithic #Archaeology #Lebanon #Europe #Genomics #Biology #Genetics #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

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"Here, using an experimental paradigm able to separate variation within a language from variation between languages, we tested the use of spatial demonstratives—the most fundamental and frequent spatial terms across languages."

Coventry, K.R., Gudde, H.B., Diessel, H. et al. Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01697-4 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Psychology #Language #Languages #Philology #Linguistics #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology @psycholinguistics @linguistics

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"We have combined a detailed, high-resolution mitogenome analysis with summaries of autosomal data and Y-chromosome lineages to establish a settlement chronology for the Indian Subcontinent."

Silva, M., Oliveira, M., Vieira, D. et al. A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily sex-biased dispersals. BMC Evol Biol 17, 88 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-0936-9 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Biology #DNA #India #Neolithic #IndoEuropean #Genetics #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

"In the context of European populations, and particularly in Iberia, this haplogroup stands out for its high frequency and its demographic history. Current evidence indicates that the diffusion of this haplogroup is related to the population movements that mark the cultural Bronze Age transition, making it remarkably interesting for population geneticists."

García-Fernández, C., Lizano, E., Telford, M. et al. Y-chromosome target enrichment reveals rapid expansion of haplogroup R1b-DF27 in Iberia during the Bronze Age transition. Sci Rep 12, 20708 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25200-7 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Biology #Anthropology #Genomics #Phylogenomics #Population #Genetics #PopulationGenetics #Iberia #Europe #BronzeAge #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @anthropology

"This article offers the examples from Sintashta SM and Kamennyj Ambar-5, along with Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates from KA-5's kurgan burials, as new information for debate over both the timing of the introduction of light vehicles on the Eurasian Steppe and, more generally, technological innovations across Eurasia."

Lindner, S. (2020). Chariots in the Eurasian Steppe: A Bayesian approach to the emergence of horse-drawn transport in the early second millennium BC. Antiquity, 94(374), 361-380. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.37 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Eurasia #BronzeAge #Sintashta #Culture #Antiquity #Transport #Prehistory #Archaeology @archaeodons