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"Both sugar trade and spice trade were economic foundations of early European geographic expansion and colonial capitalism. Frankish settlement in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Syria-Palestine may be seen as, arguably, the earliest example of colonial capitalism, preceding early sixteenth-century Portuguese conquests of spice-trading coastal outposts of India, south-east Asia and the Arabian peninsula."

Philip Slavin (2023) ‘With a grain of sugar’: native agriculture and colonial capitalism in the Frankish Levant, c. 1100–1300, Crusades, 22:1, 1-38, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/14765276.2023. @histodon @histodons

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"We document phases of instability and cooling from ~100 CE onward but more notably after ~130 CE. Pronounced cold phases between ~160 to 180 CE, ~245 to 275 CE, and after ~530 CE associate with pandemic disease, suggesting that climate stress interacted with social and biological variables."

Karin A. F. Zonneveld et al., Climate change, society, and pandemic disease in Roman Italy between 200 BCE and 600 CE. Sci. Adv.10, eadk1033 (2024). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk1033 @science @biology

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Van der Weel FR and Van der Meer ALH (2024) Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. Front. Psychol. 14:1219945. doi: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.121 @psychology @science

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"Here we present ancient DNA evidence of a pre-Columbian New World treponematosis by reconstructing a high-coverage T. pallidum genome retrieved from nearly 2,000-year-old Brazilian indigenous human remains, along with three low-coverage genomes from the same spatiotemporal context."

Majander, K., Pla-Díaz, M., du Plessis, L. et al. Redefining the treponemal history through pre-Columbian genomes from Brazil. Nature (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-069 @science @biology

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"Using metallurgical technologies from the Wadi Arabah (Jordan/Israel) as a case study, we demonstrate a gradual technological development (13th-10th c. BCE) followed by a human agency-triggered punctuated “leap” (late-10th c. BCE) simultaneously across the entire region (an area of ~2000 km2)."

Ben-Yosef E, Liss B, Yagel OA, Tirosh O, Najjar M, et al. (2019) Ancient technology and punctuated change: Detecting the emergence of the Edomite Kingdom in the Southern Levant. PLOS ONE 14(9): e0221967. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0 @anthropology @archaeodons @science

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"Notably, we demonstrated through AlphaGeometry a neuro-symbolic approach for theorem proving by means of large-scale exploration from scratch, sidestepping the need for human-annotated proof examples and human-curated problem statements."

Trinh, T.H., Wu, Y., Le, Q.V. et al. Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations. Nature 625, 476–482 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-067 @science

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"We apply this method to ancient skeletal remains from Britain to document the first instance of mosaic Turner syndrome (45,X0/46,XX) in the ancient genetic record in an Iron Age individual sequenced to average 9-fold coverage, the earliest known incidence of an individual with a 47,XYY karyotype from the Early Medieval period, as well as individuals with Klinefelter (47,XXY) and Down syndrome (47,XY, + 21)."

Anastasiadou, K., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. Detection of chromosomal aneuploidy in ancient genomes. Commun Biol 7, 14 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-056 @science @biology

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"We thus model the committed evolution of all glaciers in the European Alps up to 2050 using present-day climate conditions, assuming no future climate change. We find that the resulting committed ice loss exceeds a third of the present-day ice volume by 2050, with multi-kilometer frontal retreats for even the largest glaciers."

Cook, S. J., Jouvet, G., Millan, R., Rabatel, A., Zekollari, H., & Dussaillant, I. (2023). Committed ice loss in the European Alps until 2050 using a deep-learning-aided 3D ice-flow model with data assimilation. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL105029. doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105029 @science @climate

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"This article goes beyond the aggregated analysis to explore direct and indirect economic consequences of sea level rise (SLR) at regional and sectoral levels in Europe. Using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model and novel datasets, we estimate the distribution of losses and gains across regions and sectors."

Cortés Arbués, I., Chatzivasileiadis, T., Ivanova, O. et al. Distribution of economic damages due to climate-driven sea-level rise across European regions and sectors. Sci Rep 14, 126 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-481 @economics @science

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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

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"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

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"The fediverse is not only an opportunity for social networking on different terms—it can also be seen as a new beginning for social network research, part of a new relationship between academia and its research subject." doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2023. @science

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"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

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"Two well-known texts on altars from Delos (RES 3952; M 349) dating to the period after 167 BC attest to contacts between the Aegean and Ancient Yemen."

Sørensen, S.L. and Geus, K. (2023) 'Minaeans in the Mediterranean. Reevaluating two Old South Arabian inscriptions from Delos,' Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 34(1), pp. 128–132. doi.org/10.1111/aae.12229. @archaeodons

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"The Tropical Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and southern oceans recorded their highest OHC observed since the 1950s. Associated with the onset of a strong El Niño, the global SST reached its record high in 2023 with an annual mean of ∼0.23°C higher than 2022 and an astounding > 0.3°C above 2022 values for the second half of 2023."

Cheng, L., Abraham, J., Trenberth, K.E. et al. New Record Ocean Temperatures and Related Climate Indicators in 2023. Adv. Atmos. Sci. (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s00376-024-337 @science @climate

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"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

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"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

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"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

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