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"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

🇮🇪 "The Neolithic and Bronze Age transitions were profound cultural shifts catalyzed in parts of Europe by migrations, first of early farmers from the Near East and then Bronze Age herders from the Pontic Steppe. However, a decades-long, unresolved controversy is whether population change or cultural adoption occurred at the Atlantic edge, within the British Isles."

Cassidy, L.M. et al. (2015) 'Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(2), pp. 368–373. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518445113. #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #Science #Ancient #DNA #aDNA #Genomics #PopulationGenetics #Population #Genetics #Archaeology #Ireland #Irish #Europe #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons

🇮🇷 🇮🇳 "Despite this, we infer that Indian Zoroastrians (Parsis) intermixed with local groups sometime after their arrival in India, dating this mixture to 690–1390 CE and providing strong evidence that Iranian Zoroastrian ancestry was maintained primarily through the male line."

López, S. et al. (2017) 'The Genetic Legacy of Zoroastrianism in Iran and India: Insights into Population Structure, Gene Flow, and Selection,' American Journal of Human Genetics, 101(3), pp. 353–368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.07.013. #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #PopulationGenetics #Population #Genetics #Zoroastrianism #Iran #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

🇵🇱 "Results showed that the level of differentiation within Polish population is quite low, but some differences were indicated. It was confirmed that the Polish population is characterized by a high degree of homogeneity, with only slight genetic differences being observed at the regional level."

Grochowalski, Ł. et al. (2020) 'Y-Chromosome Genetic analysis of modern Polish population,' Frontiers in Genetics, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.567309. #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Polish #Population #Poland #Europe #Genetics #Analysis #Biology #Anthropology @science @anthropology

🇵🇹 🇪🇸 Murillo-Barroso, M., Cólliga, A.M. & Martinón-Torres, M. The earliest Baltic amber in Western Europe. Sci Rep 13, 14250 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41293-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Portugal #Spain #Europe @archaeodons

🇲🇽 "Most sequenced individuals had admixed Indigenous American, European and African ancestry, with extensive admixture from Indigenous populations in central, southern and southeastern Mexico."

Ziyatdinov, A., Torres, J., Alegre-Díaz, J. et al. Genotyping, sequencing and analysis of 140,000 adults from Mexico City. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06595-3 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #DNA #Genetics #Mexico #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

Kekić, T. and Lietard, J. (2023) 'A Canvas of Spatially Arranged DNA Strands that Can Produce 24-bit Color Depth,' Journal of the American Chemical Society [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c06500. #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Genetics #DNA #Chemistry #Colour #Color #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

"Here we use data-driven conditional technology and economic forecasting modelling to establish which zero carbon power sources could become dominant worldwide."

Nijsse, F.J.M.M., Mercure, JF., Ameli, N. et al. The momentum of the solar energy transition. Nat Commun 14, 6542 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41971-7 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Geography #SolarEnergy #Solar #Energy #Data #Technology #Economics #Climate #Academia #Academic #Academics

"Here, we examine biomarkers extracted from human dental calculus, using sequential thermal desorption- and pyrolysis-GCMS, to report direct evidence for widespread consumption of seaweed and submerged aquatic and freshwater plants across Europe."

Buckley, S., Hardy, K., Hallgren, F. et al. Human consumption of seaweed and freshwater aquatic plants in ancient Europe. Nat Commun 14, 6192 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41671-2 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Ancient #Europe #Science #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @science

Feather, J., Leclerc, G., Mądry, A. et al. Model metamers reveal divergent invariances between biological and artificial neural networks. Nat Neurosci (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01442-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Neuroscience #Academica #Academic #Academics @science

"The Tuareg of the Fezzan region (Libya) are characterized by an extremely high frequency (61%) of haplogroup H1, a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup that is common in all Western European populations. To define how and when H1 spread from Europe to North Africa up to the Central Sahara, in Fezzan, we investigated the complete mitochondrial genomes of eleven Libyan Tuareg belonging to H1."

Ottoni C, Primativo G, Hooshiar Kashani B, Achilli A, Martínez-Labarga C, et al. (2010) Mitochondrial Haplogroup H1 in North Africa: An Early Holocene Arrival from Iberia. PLOS ONE 5(10): e13378. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013378 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DNA #Africa #Europe #Paleogenetics #Phylogenetics #PopulationGenetics #Population #Genetics #Science #Biology @science @biology

"This paper demonstrates that the highly accurate depiction of the Indian Ocean on the Carta marina of Martin Waldseemueller from 1516 is mainly caused by the extremely powerful political and economic interests of the Portuguese Crown and the Upper German-trading companies in the conflict with the Kingdom of Castile over supremacy in the spice trade in India."

Martin Lehmann | Peter Stanley Fosl (Reviewing editor) (2020) The Carta Marina of Martin Waldseemüller from 1516 – political geography in context of the struggle for the spices of Southeast India, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 7:1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2020.1741983 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Map #Maps #Cartography #Economics #Trade #Portugal #India #C16th #16thCentury #Europe #Asia #EarlyModern @historyofeconomics @earlymodern