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"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

"We focus specifically on the ongoing debates relating to (1) the independent invention and innovation of different metals and metal production techniques; (2) the analysis and interpretation of early metallurgical production cores and peripheries, and their collapses; and (3) the relationships between metals, metallurgy and society."

Radivojević, M., Roberts, B.W. Early Balkan Metallurgy: Origins, Evolution and Society, 6200–3700 BC. J World Prehist 34, 195–278 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-021-09155-7 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Prehistory #Metallurgy #Archaeology #Europe @archaeodons

"Here, we survey the genomic evidence for human dispersals during the Holocene in various geographic regions of the world, focusing on proposed expansions linked to agriculture."

Stoneking, M. et al. (2023) 'Genomic perspectives on human dispersals during the Holocene,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(4). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209475119. #OpenAccess #OA #Anthropology #Science #Genomics #Holocene #Humans #Genetics #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology @science

"Here we employ a sample of ancient Near Eastern cities dated between about 6000 BC and AD 1000 using settled area as a proxy for city population and relate this to estimates of regional population and prevailing climate to examine their long-term relationship."

Lawrence D, Philip G, Hunt H, Snape-Kennedy L, Wilkinson TJ (2016) Long Term Population, City Size and Climate Trends in the Fertile Crescent: A First Approximation. PLOS ONE 11(3): e0152563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152563 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Ancient #FertileCrescent #NearEast #Turkey #Population #Climate #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons

"Our study demonstrates a direct genetic link between Mediterranean and Central European early farmers and those of Greece and Anatolia, extending the European Neolithic migratory chain all the way back to southwestern Asia."

Hofmanová, Z. et al. (2016) 'Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(25), pp. 6886–6891. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523951113. #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Anthropology #Palaeogenetics #Genetics #Biology #Population #PopulationGenetics #Archaeology #Europe #Greece #Neolithic #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology @science @archaeodons

"We analyzed a comprehensive autosomal and Y-chromosome dataset of Eurasian and African populations identifying genetic signals of regional LGP population isolation, and contrasted expansion time estimates and dispersal routes in the region with archaeological, palaeontological, palaeobotanical, and climate data."

Platt, D., Haber, M., Dagher-Kharrat, M. et al. Mapping Post-Glacial expansions: The Peopling of Southwest Asia. Sci Rep 7, 40338 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep40338 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genetics #Population #PopulationGenetics #Biology #Archaeology #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons

"In this article, two networks, one created from archaeological finds and the other from the writings of four medieval travellers, are analysed using various Social Network Analysis centrality measures and Complex Systems Science models and are compared to each other in order to explore the importance of various Mediterranean settlements and the ways in which movement occurred around the region, investigating whether they challenge or support current understandings."

Annabel Hancock, Tracing connections: using network analysis to study trade and movement in the Mediterranean in the 11th to 14th centuries, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2023;, fqad056, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad056 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Data #Digital #Humanities #Mediterranean #Academia #Academic #Academics

🇩🇰 "We propose that the interdependent relationships between mobility, pastoralism and barrow-building in the third millennium BC produced a cosmological complex which endured as the social backbone of the Nordic Bronze Age (c. 1700–500 BC) in western Jutland."

Haughton, M., & Løvschal, M. (2023). Ancestral commons: The deep-time emergence of Bronze Age pastoral mobility. Antiquity, 1-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.154 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Denmark #Europe #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Palaeoecology #Archaeology #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons

"In this article, after briefly describing the meaning of the notion of truth, I have tried to analyse the relation between value and science in detail and provide an explanation for the present-day hypertrophic, rigid, and not reality-bound value system and its ideological penetration into science and medicine."

Bikfalvi, A. (2023). The Notion of Truth in Sciences and Medicine, Why it Matters and Why We Must Defend It. European Review, 31(5), 498-509. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798723000261 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Philosophy #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Truth #History #Academia #Academic #Academics #Europe @philosophy @philosophyofscience @science

"Friction determines whether liquid droplets slide off a solid surface or stick to it. Surface heterogeneity is generally acknowledged as the major cause of increased contact angle hysteresis and contact line friction of droplets. Here we challenge this long-standing premise for chemical heterogeneity at the molecular length scale."

Lepikko, S., Jaques, Y.M., Junaid, M. et al. Droplet slipperiness despite surface heterogeneity at molecular scale. Nat. Chem. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01346-3 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Science #Chemistry #Physics #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

"We propose that this process of lithosphere growth—with diamonds attached to the supercontinent keel by the diapiric uprise of depleted buoyant material and pieces of slab crust—could have enhanced supercontinent stability."

Timmerman, S., Stachel, T., Koornneef, J.M. et al. Sublithospheric diamond ages and the supercontinent cycle. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06662-9 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Geochemistry #Science #Mineralogy #Diamonds #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

"Sixty-three skeletons from the Pre Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) sites of Tell Halula, Tell Ramad and Dja'de El Mughara dating between 8,700–6,600 cal. B.C. were analyzed, and 15 validated mitochondrial DNA profiles were recovered. In order to estimate the demographic contribution of the first farmers to both Central European and Western Mediterranean Neolithic cultures, haplotype and haplogroup diversities in the PPNB sample were compared using phylogeographic and population genetic analyses to available ancient DNA data from human remains belonging to the Linearbandkeramik-Alföldi Vonaldiszes Kerámia and Cardial/Epicardial cultures."

Fernández E, Pérez-Pérez A, Gamba C, Prats E, Cuesta P, et al. (2014) Ancient DNA Analysis of 8000 B.C. Near Eastern Farmers Supports an Early Neolithic Pioneer Maritime Colonization of Mainland Europe through Cyprus and the Aegean Islands. PLOS Genetics 10(6): e1004401. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004401 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Genetics #Neolithic #Europe #Cyprus #DNA #Paleogenetics #Ancient #Phylogeography #Anthropology #Migration #Migrants #Colonization #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @anthropology