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The Travel Account of Francisco Álvares: Ethiopian-European Relations in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog/the_travel_account #history #histodons #europe #ethiopia
Source: https://twitter.com/Warwick_Global/status/1645791130137812996
Radiocarbon timestamps left in #ancient tree rings by cosmic ray bombardments can date historical events with unprecedented precision https://www.science.org/content/article/marking-time-cosmic-ray-storms-can-pin-precise-dates-history-ancient-egypt-vikings #Science #Physics #Archaeology #archaeodons #History #histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NewsfromScience/status/1646566425241190408
"the earliest printed map specifically of Wales and was compiled by Humphrey Llwyd (1527–1568) shortly before his death." https://www.library.wales/discover-learn/digital-exhibitions/maps/maps-of-wales/cambriae-typus#:~:text=Cambriae%20Typus%20is%20the%20first,great%20improvement%20on%20earlier%20maps #Map #History #Wales #mapstodon #histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NLWales/status/1645320971044134913
Against AI Understanding and Sentience: Large Language Models, Meaning, and the Patterns of Human Language Use https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21977/ #ai #artificialintelligence #language #philosophy
Kinship practices in Early Iron Age South-east Europe: genetic and isotopic analysis of burials from the Dolge njive barrow cemetery, Dolenjska, Slovenia. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/kinship-practices-in-early-iron-age-southeast-europe-genetic-and-isotopic-analysis-of-burials-from-the-dolge-njive-barrow-cemetery-dolenjska-slovenia/0D6ED223C1B0B3C645DAFABD7952FA39 #OpenAccess #OA #Genetics #Archaeology #Slovenia #Europe
Source: https://twitter.com/AntiquityJ/status/1645396719809490945
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Today in 1656, Rene Lepage de Sainte-Claire was born in Burgundy.
Between 1670 & 1674, he immigrated to New France.
In 1696, he founded Rimouski after obtaining the land from Augustin Roer de la Cardonniere.
Sainte-Claire remained in Rimouski until his death in 1718.
#Canada #History #Histodon #Histodons #Rimouski #Quebec #NewFrance
Guest Post -- Academic Publishers Are Missing the Point on ChatGPT https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/03/31/guest-post-academic-publishers-are-missing-the-point-on-chatgpt/ #Academia #Publishing #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #ai #Technology
Europe’s Oldest Map Shows Tiny Bronze Age Kingdom https://atlasobscura.com/articles/europe-oldest-map-shows-tiny-bronze-age-kingdom #Map #Archaeology #History #Europe #histadons #archaeodons #mapstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/bibliolater1452/status/1645033819236335616
Early ships and the spread of Indo-European and Anatolian #languages https://www.academia.edu/73100916/EARLY_SHIPS_AND_THE_SPREAD_OF_INDO_EUROPEAN_AND_ANATOLIAN_LANGUAGES #Archaeology #History #histadons #archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/Jorrit_Kelder/status/1644729204020244480
Here’s why the geometric patterns in salt flats worldwide look so similar https://www.sciencenews.org/article/geometric-patterns-salt-flats-worldwide #mathstodon #maths #science
Source: https://twitter.com/ScienceNews/status/1644792249249611776?s=20
Homer and the power of story-telling https://antigonejournal.com/2022/03/homer-story-telling/ #Greek #Literature #Classics
Source: https://twitter.com/AntigoneJournal/status/1644794784643440642?s=20
Lunar eclipses illuminate timing and climate impact of #medieval volcanism
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05751-z #Science #History #Histodons
Hakenbeck, S., & Büntgen, U. (2022). The role of drought during the Hunnic incursions into central-east Europe in the 4th and 5th c. CE. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 35(2), 876-896. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000332 #Climate #Migration #Roman #Archaeology #History #Histodon #OpenAccess
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We often think of the Greco-Roman world as all-white. But it was not.
“Take Lucian, a high-ranking Roman official in the second century. Born in Syria, he later chose to be a naturalized Roman. As a non-native speaker of Greek and Latin who, by his own admission, looked different from many people in Greece and Rome, he dealt with issues of ethnicity, language use and social acceptance (from a (via @ufresearch classicist)
https://theconversation.com/what-a-second-century-roman-citizen-lucian-can-teach-us-about-diversity-and-acceptance-196726
#Multiculturalism #Diversity
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1/2 Happy 550th Birthday to Nicolaus Copernicus! A while back I write about how he shook up our view of the universe, for
@astronomymag: https://astronomy.com/magazine/2019/07/how-copernicus-moved-the-sun #Copernicus #Copernicus550 #astronomy #science #history #histsci
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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