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🔴 The rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus

"For two millennia, mobile pastoralism dominated lifeways on the great expanses of steppe extending northwards from the Caucasus mountains. Fuelled by technological innovations such as wheeled transport and dairy pastoralism, as well as emerging horse husbandry, steppe populations from the Caucasus–Steppe interface exerted a large influence on the Eurasian landmass, leaving far-flung genetic and cultural footprints that remain even today. Understanding the dynamic and complex population interactions that shaped the region’s most influential BA groups, such as the Maykop, Yamnaya and Kura–Araxes, is key to reconstructing the population history of both Europe and Asia."

Ghalichi, A., Reinhold, S., Rohrlach, A.B. et al. The rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08113-5.

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🔴 A Bronze Age town in the Khaybar walled oasis: Debating early urbanization in Northwestern Arabia

"Alongside this local economy, the site was part of a wider regional exchange network, at a time when trans-Arabian travel by donkey was on the increase ([29, 61]). The microfabrics of a few rare sherds of Red Burnished Ware found during surveys and excavations seems to come from outside the oasis (perhaps Qurayyah or Tayma). Sourcing analyses of arsenic copper at Tayma and Qurayyah have shown a regional provenance, either from Oman or the Arabian Shield ([60]: 141, [64])."

Charloux G, Shabo S, Depreux B, Colin S, Guadagnini K, et al. (2024) A Bronze Age town in the Khaybar walled oasis: Debating early urbanization in Northwestern Arabia. PLOS ONE 19(10): e0309963. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309963.

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🔴 Mortality burden attributed to anthropogenic warming during Europe’s 2022 record-breaking summer

"Our findings highlight that human-induced climate change poses a risk beyond vulnerable populations, extreme temperatures, heatwaves, or Southern regions characterized by high summer temperatures. However, we also find that population groups more susceptible to heat, i.e. women and the elderly, are more adversely affected by anthropogenic warming than the general population."

Beck, T.M., Schumacher, D.L., Achebak, H. et al. Mortality burden attributed to anthropogenic warming during Europe’s 2022 record-breaking summer. npj Clim Atmos Sci 7, 245 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00783-2

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🔴 🇺🇸 American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016

_After describing American imperial activity in the late nineteenth century, the authors of the 1961 text Men and Nations: A World History claimed that by establishing “an empire of colonies and protectorates in the Caribbean and the Pacific” the United States “had taken its place as one of the great powers of the world”. [63] The authors claimed that the United States possessed a humane and civilising empire: “Probably the countries were never better governed or enjoyed greater freedom from wars, revolutions, financial crises, and national bankruptcies. Yet these benefits were not always welcomed by the Latin Americans”._

Jackson, S. (2024) ‘American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016’, Paedagogica Historica, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024.2362250.

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🔴 🇺🇸 American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016

_After describing American imperial activity in the late nineteenth century, the authors of the 1961 text Men and Nations: A World History claimed that by establishing “an empire of colonies and protectorates in the Caribbean and the Pacific” the United States “had taken its place as one of the great powers of the world”. [63] The authors claimed that the United States possessed a humane and civilising empire: “Probably the countries were never better governed or enjoyed greater freedom from wars, revolutions, financial crises, and national bankruptcies. Yet these benefits were not always welcomed by the Latin Americans”._

Jackson, S. (2024) ‘American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016’, Paedagogica Historica, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024.2362250.

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🔴 🇳🇴 Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga

"Here we apply palaeogenomic analysis to human remains excavated from a medieval well at the ruins of Sverresborg Castle in central Norway. In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson, one passage details a 1197-CE raid on the castle and mentions a dead man thrown into the well. Radiocarbon dating supports that these are that individual’s remains."

Ellegaard, M.R. et al. (2024) 'Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga,' iScience, p. 111076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111076.

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🔴 Too many numbers and worse word choice: Why readers find data-driven news articles produced with automation harder to understand

"Overall, this study showed that although news stories produced with automation were perceived equally to those produced without regarding sentence and paragraph length and writing style, they were evaluated as less comprehensible overall and with regard to the presentation of numbers and statistics."

Thäsler-Kordonouri, S., Thurman, N., Schwertberger, U., & Stalph, F. (2024). Too many numbers and worse word choice: Why readers find data-driven news articles produced with automation harder to understand. Journalism, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241262204.

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🔴 📖 Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire

"...brings together scholars of Achaemenid history, literature and religion, Iranian linguistics, historians of the Ancient Near East, archeologists, biblical scholars and Semiticists. The goal is to better understand the interchange of ideas, expressions and concepts as well as the experience of historical events between Yahwists and the empire that ruled over them for over two centuries."

Barnea, G. and Kratz, R. 2024. Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire: Professor Shaul Shaked in Memoriam. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111018638.

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🔴 🇯🇵 Return to utopia? Vision and practice of the Japanese right at Yasukuni shrine

"As argued elsewhere, right-wing ideologies are constructed on a distinctive ontology and explanations for political phenomena.[67] In Japan, this has emerged around the issue of war-history: exonerating Japanese colonial history is not only a matter of national pride but considered to be central to political power. This emerged in the 1980s in response to issues such as history textbooks, territorial disputes, and re-writing the constitution, and carries on today. [68] It was around this time that the Yasukuni shrine also reemerged as the focal point for such reactionary historical revision in popular consciousness."

Narita, K. (2024) ‘Return to utopia? Vision and practice of the Japanese right at Yasukuni shrine’, Journal of Political Ideologies, pp. 1–22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2024.2418189.

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🔴 🇯🇵 Genetic analysis of a Yayoi individual from the Doigahama site provides insights into the origins of immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago

"One of the important findings of this study is that, in all analyses, among modern populations, the Korean population exhibited more genetic similarity to the Doigahama Yayoi individual than any other East Asian populations, except for the Japanese. This suggests that immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago during the Yayoi period primarily originated from the Korean Peninsula."

Kim, J., Mizuno, F., Matsushita, T. et al. Genetic analysis of a Yayoi individual from the Doigahama site provides insights into the origins of immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago. J Hum Genet (2024). https://www.nature.com/articles/s10038-024-01295-w.

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🔴 The illusion of information adequacy

"...this study provides convergent evidence that people presume that they possess adequate information—even when they lack half the relevant information or be missing an important point of view. Furthermore, they assume a moderately high level of competence to make a fair, careful evaluation of the information in reaching their decisions. In turn, their specific cross-section of information strongly influences their recommendations."

Gehlbach H, Robinson CD, Fletcher A (2024) The illusion of information adequacy. PLOS ONE 19(10): e0310216. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310216

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⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries

"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."

Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000203.

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⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries

"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."

Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000203.

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⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries

"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."

Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000203.

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⭐ The new political economy of the middle ages: a review essay of the medieval constitution of Liberty

"Having established that free cities developed the first truly modern market-friendly legal institutions, Salter and Young advance their most provocative claim: McCloskey (2010) gets the timing wrong on her Bourgeois Dignity thesis. Instead, Salter and Young (2023, pp. 202–206) argue that self-governing medieval cities cultivated bourgeois virtues and lent dignity to merchants in the High Middle Ages."

Truitt, T. The new political economy of the middle ages: a review essay of the medieval constitution of Liberty. Rev Austrian Econ (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-024-00658-y

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🔴 **Migrant Voices in Multilingual London,** **1560****–****1600**

"_By charting how linguistic diversity was part of the lives of ordinary Londoners in this period, including close examination of incidents of multilingual insult, slander, and conflict, this article argues that the civic and religious authorities relied on the stranger churches’ abilities to carry out surveillance of speech in languages other than English, and that urban social relations and urban spaces were shaped by multilingualism._"

Gallagher, J. (2024) ‘Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560–1600’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440124000069

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🟡 🇸🇪 **<font color="yellow">Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right</font>**

"_Drawing parallels to the UK, where pub closures led to increased support for UKIP, this study investigates similar trends observed in Sweden. Utilizing a novel dataset of over 50,000 alcohol-serving permits and electoral data from 2002 to 2018, the study finds that a reduction in permits is associated with a 3.7% increase in support for the Sweden Democrats (SD)._"

Isaksson, Z. (2024) 'Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right,' Electoral Studies, 91, p. 102850. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102850.

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🟡 **<font color="yellow">Excavating ancient pilgrimage at Nessana, Negev</font>**

"_The churches were the only public structures of Nessana to have been previously exposed; all were ornately decorated basilicas, belonging to the most common architectural form of early ecclesiastical edifices in the Holy Land._"

Tchekhanovets, Y. (2024) ‘Excavating ancient pilgrimage at Nessana, Negev’, Antiquity, pp. 1–7. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.132

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🔴 **Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas**

"_That we infer the Native American component in Ancient Rapanui to be most closely related to Pacific Coast South Americans and not North Americans or populations east of the Andes further substantiates trans-Pacific contacts between Polynesians and Native Americans._"

Moreno-Mayar, J.V., Sousa da Mota, B., Higham, T. et al. Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas. Nature 633, 389–397 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07881-4

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🔴 🇪🇸 **Tracing social disruptions over time using radiocarbon datasets: Copper and Early Bronze Ages in Southeast Iberia**

"_Our statistical analysis indicates that most probably the changes in funerary rituals in southeast Iberia were fast. It also implies that the local populations had dropped in numbers before 2200 cal BCE, so that the presence of ‘Steppe ancestry’ ca. 2200–2000 cal BCE could be the result of their admixture with neighbouring peoples._"

Micó, R. et al. (2024) 'Tracing social disruptions over time using radiocarbon datasets: Copper and Early Bronze Ages in Southeast Iberia,' Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, p. 104692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104692.

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