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🔴 **High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe**

_“We reveal evidence of the southward and/or eastward expansion of individuals who probably spoke Germanic languages and who had Scandinavian-related ancestry in the first half of the first millennium ce. We note that ‘Scandinavian-related’ in this context relates to the ancient genomes available, and so it is entirely possible that these processes were driven, for example, from regions in northern-central Europe. This could be consistent with the attraction of the greater wealth, which tended to build up among Rome’s immediate neighbours and may have played a major role in vectors of migration internal to communities in Europe who lived beyond the Roman frontier52.”_

Speidel, L., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe. Nature 637, 118–126 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08275-2

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genomics #Genetics #Science #History #Medieval #Medievodons #Scandinavia #Europe #Migration #Migrants #Academia #Academics @science @medievodons @archaeodons

🔴 **Pre-roman copper industry had no polluting impact on the global environment**

_“Our results, combined with a comprehensive survey of previously published data, support the minimalist interpretation of the polluting effects of metallurgical activities on ancient societies, at least for pre-Roman copper production industries.”_

Yagel, O., Greener, A., Ondricek, W. et al. Pre-roman copper industry had no polluting impact on the global environment. Sci Rep 14, 29675 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80939-5.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Ancient #NearEast #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Metallurgy #Pollution #TimnaValley #Environment #Academia #Academics @archaeodons

🔴 **Recycling and Recontextualisation in Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Palimpsests**

_“While parchment recycling was common in Iceland both in the medieval and early modern period, it was most productive in the century following the introduction of the Icelandic Reformation when palimpsested parchment from Latin Catholic books was frequently used for religious and legal manuscripts as a cheaper and more readily available alternative to paper. ”_

Lorenz, T. (2024a) 'Endurvinnsla og endurnýting í íslenskum uppskafningum frá miðöldum og á árnýöld,' Gripla, 35. https://doi.org/10.33112/gripla.35.1.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Medieval #Medievodons #EarlyModern #Iceland #Recycling #Prints #Mauscripts #Academia #Academic @earlymodern @medievodons

🔴 **Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients**

_"Advertisers mimicked the sensitive queries of cancer patients to target them with their marketing using Google’s keyword-matching feature. In 2023, 20,035 unique keywords emulated Google searches seeking information on cancer prognosis, alternative treatments, accessing treatment, treatment options, diagnosis, specific cancers, and late-stage cancer._

_The Google tools used by alternative cancer clinics exploit users’ searches for information and give prominence to websites promoting treatment unsupported by scientific evidence."_

Zenone, M., Marcon, A., Kenworthy, N., van Schalkwyk, M., Caulfield, T., Hartwell, G., & Maani, N. (2024). Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-170

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Google #Health #Cancer #Advertisements #Advertising #Information #Technology #Tech #Academia #Academics

🔴 🌡️ **Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality**

_“Using climate model simulations of idealized SG and data-driven of temperature-attributable mortality, we estimate that, in a world 2.5 °C warmer than preindustrial, 1 °C of global-average cooling by SG reduces mortality by over 400,000 deaths annually by 2080, with a possible range from −1.2 million to 2.7 million deaths annually.”_

A. Harding, G.A. Vecchi, W. Yang, D.W. Keith, Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121 (52) e2401801121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401801121 (2024).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Geoscience #Engineering #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academics @science @climatechange

🔴 **Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin**

_“Our evaluations reveal spatially different histories in Transdanubia even between communities in close geographical proximity, highlighting the importance of dense sampling and analyses. Our findings highlight extensive homogenization and reorganization processes, as well as discontinuities between Hun, Avar, and Hungarian conquest period immigrant groups, alongside the spread and integration of ancestry related to the Hungarian conquerors.”_

Dániel Gerber et al., Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin. Sci. Adv.10, eadq5864(2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq5864.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Archaeogenomics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #Genomes #Science #CarpathianBasin #Hungary #Europe @anthropology @archaeodons

🔴 🖋 ⌨️ **Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom**

_“Our results reveal that whenever handwriting movements are included as a learning strategy, more of the brain gets stimulated, resulting in the formation of more complex neural network connectivity. It appears that the movements related to typewriting do not activate these connectivity networks the same way that handwriting does.”_

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: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Education #Psychology #Brain #Neuroscience #Learning #Handwriting #Writing #Typing #Typewriting #Academia #Academic @science @psychology

🔴 **Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia**

_“The frequent engagement with themes relating to the supernatural and the divine in the Babylonian Talmud, when read alongside the Jewish magical evidence from Babylonia and other contemporary sources, suggests a degree of anxiety about the fact that the rabbis were grappling with the appeal of a multiplicity of deities and forces present among the inhabitants of Sasanian Babylonia and that they were actively seeking to clarify how their notions of the divine differed from those of their neighbours.”_

Herman, G. 2021. Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia. In: Kiperwasser, R. and Herman, G. ed. Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671483-006.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Babylonia #Theology #Religion @religion

🔴 🇵🇹 🇬🇧 **An Unknown History Of Portugal (c 1570) In William Cecil's Library: Commissioning And Writing History During the Elizabethan Era**

_“The manuscript is in a mid-sixteenth-century hand and has personal annotations by William Cecil (1520–98), better known as Lord Burghley. It recounts the history of Portugal by reigns and belonged to Cecil’s personal library. Until now, no other extant example of a history of Portugal written in English in the sixteenth century was known.”_

Lowe, K. and Vila-Santa, N. (2024) ‘AN UNKNOWN HISTORY OF PORTUGAL (c 1570) IN WILLIAM CECIL’S LIBRARY: COMMISSIONING AND WRITING HISTORY DURING THE ELIZABETHAN ERA’, The Antiquaries Journal, pp. 1–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000167.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #C16th #16thCentury #Culture #History #UK #UnitedKingdom #Portugal #Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

🔴 **Financing white rule: How Luxembourg became a banker for the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa**

_“In the cases of both the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa, it is evident that banks in Luxembourg provided financial services to borrowers accused of forced labor, environmental degradation, racist discrimination, sanctions busting, and other morally inexcusable practices. In other words, ‘their ‘profit’ came in the form of both shareholder dividends and the reproduction of global white supremacy’ (Hudson, Reference Hudson2017: 14).”_

Weeks, S. (2024) ‘Financing white rule: How Luxembourg became a banker for the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa’, Finance and Society, 10(3), pp. 234–250. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/fas.2024.12.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Apartheid #SouthAfrica #Congo #Belgium #Luxembourg #Finance #Europe #Africa #Anthropology #Academia #Academics @finance @anthropology

🔴 **Race and the printed language: roman and gothic letterforms in the making of the “Aryan race”**

_“The article examines the birth and evolution of the roman and gothic typefaces, following Gutenberg’s printing press in the fifteenth century, and assesses how Nazi publications harked back to German and European typographic traditions to make the printed word a vehicle of German “Aryan” identity and divide readers.”_

Waldeck, M. and Leoussi, A. S. (2024) ‘Race and the printed language: roman and gothic letterforms in the making of the “Aryan race”’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, pp. 1–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2430057.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Race #Language #Script #Typeface #Nazi #Academia #Academics

🔴 **The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030**

_“The primary trigger of the rapid transition to the first ice-free day within 3–6 years that we identified was a warm atmosphere in the previous winter and spring, leading to a loss of sea ice mass year-round Fig. 3b).”_

Heuzé, C., Jahn, A. The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030. Nat Commun 15, 10101 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54508-3.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Arctic #Ocean #Climate #Science #Academia #Academics @science

🔴 **Hegel and White Freedom**

_“In order to show that Hegel's idea of freedom is linked to white identity, I trace its connections with the Western idea of property. My suggestion is that Hegel conceptualizes freedom as appropriation, thereby linking freedom to property and white identity.”_

Stibor, L. (2024) ‘Hegel and White Freedom’, Hegel Bulletin, 45(2), pp. 210–236. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2024.36.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Philosophy #Hegel #Identity #Freedom #Academia #Academics @philosophy

🔴 **“One Certain Standard”: Colonial Currencies and the Politics of Economic Knowledge in Late Stuart Britain**

_“Chronic coin shortages plagued Ireland and Britain's American colonies throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Despite complaints, every proposal to mint money in early modern Britain's overseas Atlantic empire failed, whether in Ireland, the Caribbean, or North America. This article explains why.”_

Caden, M. (2024) ‘“One Certain Standard”: Colonial Currencies and the Politics of Economic Knowledge in Late Stuart Britain’, Journal of British Studies, pp. 1–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.119.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Britain #Empire #Imperialism #Colonialism #Currency #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

🔴 **Unveiling the culinary tradition of ‘focaccia’ in Late Neolithic Mesopotamia by way of the integration of use-wear, phytolith & organic-residue analyses**

_“This is in agreement with experimental data, which indicate that placing a HT in a domed oven, preheated with glowing embers to an initial temperature of 420ºC for two hours, can yield a uniformly baked bread loaf or ‘focaccia’ weighing about 3.5 kg.”_

Taranto, S., Barcons, A.B., Portillo, M. et al. Unveiling the culinary tradition of ‘focaccia’ in Late Neolithic Mesopotamia by way of the integration of use-wear, phytolith & organic-residue analyses. Sci Rep 14, 26805 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78019-9

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Food #Neolithic #Mesopotamia #Academia #Academics @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

🔴 **Genetic evidence points to distinct paternal settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland**

_“If Iceland and the Faroe Islands are indeed genetically divergent, as found in the present study, two scenarios may explain their differentiation and Iceland’s relative isolation on the networks: (1) the populations were settled by different regional groups; or, (2) another historically contingent process of evolution between the two groups has resulted in the divergence.”_

Mann AE, Magnussen E and Tillquist CR (2024) Genetic evidence points to distinct paternal settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Front. Genet. 15:1462736. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2024.1462736.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Genetics #FaroeIslands #NorthAtlantic #Academia #Academics @science

🔴 **Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population**

_“We also investigated the debated question on the genetic origin of Armenians and failed to find any significant support for historical suggestions by Herodotus of their Balkan-related ancestry. We checked the degree of continuity of modern Armenians with ancient inhabitants of the eastern Armenian highlands and detected a genetic input into the region from a source linked to Neolithic Levantine Farmers at some point after the Early Bronze Age.”_

Hovhannisyan et al., Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population, The American Journal of Human Genetics (2025), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.10.022

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Demography #Genetics #Genome #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology #History #BronzeAge #Armenia #Academia #Academics @science @anthropology

🔴 **Comparative Hellenistic and Roman Manuscript Studies (CHRoMS): Script Interactions and Hebrew/Aramaic Writing Culture**

_"In this comparative study, I argue that Egyptian and Judean Hebrew/Aramaic scripts from 400 BCE–400 CE were heavily influenced by Greek and later Latin writing cultures, which explains many previously inexplicable phenomena. Jewish writers in the third century BCE adopted the Greek split-nibbed reed pen, which dramatically changed the appearance of Hebrew/Aramaic scripts. At the same time, the normal size for Hebrew/ Aramaic scripts shrank considerably, the pen strokes became mostly monotone and unshaded, and the scripts became more rectilinear, angular, bilinear, and square."_

Longacre, Drew. (2021). Comparative Hellenistic and Roman Manuscript Studies (CHRoMS): Script Interactions and Hebrew/Aramaic Writing Culture (Version Online First). Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 7(1), 7–50. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.8897.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Ancient #History #Manuscripts #Palaeography #Hebrew #Writing #Academia #Academics

🔴 **Building more mathematico in Renaissance Venice**

_"Among these manuscripts there are many mathematical works. Indeed, Bessarion’s interest in mathematical problems can be seen in the notes that he adds in the margins of his manuscripts of Archimedes, Euclid, Ptolemy, Apollonius, Aristarchus, Diophantus, Proclus, Hero, Aristotle, Theodosius and Serenus (Rose 1975: 45)."_

Monteleone, C. Building more mathematico in Renaissance Venice. Nexus Netw J 26, 557–569 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-024-00781-0.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Architecture #Renaissance #Venice #Europe #Academia #Academics

🔴 📖 **An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449-1559)**

_"Forced baptisms of Jews and Muslims had profound effects across Spanish society, leading famous intellectuals as well as ordinary men and women to rethink their sense of belonging to the Christian community and their forms of religiosity. Thus, in this book, early modern Iberia emerges as a laboratory of European-wide transformations."_

Pastore, S. (11 Nov. 2024). An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449-1559), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004714236 [Accessed 23 November 2024].

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Medieval #Medievodons #EarlyModern #Castile #Iberia #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academics @medievodons @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (93)