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Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province
“Here, we examine evidence for three different socioeconomic rates that are available from the archaeological record for Roman Britain. We find that all three measures show increasing returns to scale with settlement population, with a common elasticity that is consistent with the expectation from settlement scaling theory.”
Scott G. Ortman et al., Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province. Sci. Adv. 10, eadk5517 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk5517
#OpenAccess #Oa #Research #Article #DOI #Anthropology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #History #Economy #Roman #Romans #Britain #Empire #Imperialism #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology @archaeodons
The meaning of bracket symbols
The Atomic Human -understanding ourselves in the age of AI
“In this insightful talk, Neil Lawrence will reveal how AI serves as a powerful assistant to human intelligence, not a replacement. He will discuss the limits of AI in replicating human thought and its profound impact on society and information management.”
๐ฅ #Video length: forty four minutes and fifty seconds.
The genetic structure of Norway ๐ณ๐ด
“The main finding of this study is that despite Norwayโs long maritime history and as a former Danish territory, the region closest to mainland Europe in the south appears to have been an isolated region in Norway, highlighting the open sea as a barrier to gene flow into Norway.”
Mattingsdal, M., Ebenesersdรณttir, S.S., Moore, K.H.S. et al. The genetic structure of Norway. Eur J Hum Genet 29, 1710โ1718 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-021-00899-6
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Biology #Genetics #Anthropology #Norway #Scandinavia #Nordic #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
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Can't help think of the first map of the USA, and the ridiculous back story of its maker....
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/america-gains-its-first-map-the-mapmaker-gains-back-his-ear/
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PBS: AI and the energy required to power it fuel new climate concerns https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ai-and-the-energy-required-to-power-it-fuel-new-climate-concerns #AI #ClimateEmergency #google #power #energy
Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology
“With this book, we want to apply a multidisciplinary approach that combines historical linguistics, archaeology, and comparative religion in order to improve our understanding of the early speakers of Indo-European.”
Larsson, J., Olander, T. and Jรธrgensen, A.R., 2024. Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bcn
#OpenAccess #OA #Linguistics #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics @bookstodon (85)
The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
“200 years after the Persian Wars, Greece faced another massive assault. This time, the threat came not from the east but from a Celtic invasion.”
Middleton, Neil. “The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae” TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/celtic-invasion-greece-thermopylae/ (accessed July 2, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Greece #Europe @histodon @histodons
Discovering the North: Francesco Negriโs and Giuseppe Acerbiโs journeys to Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries
“Their narratives provide valuable insights into the cultural and societal landscape of the North during their time, illuminating a region largely undiscovered by other European travellers. By documenting their experiences and observations, Negri and Acerbi contribute to a broader understanding of Northern Europe, challenging prevailing narratives.”
Miscali, M. (2024) โDiscovering the North: Francesco Negriโs and Giuseppe Acerbiโs journeys to Norway in the 17th and 18th centuriesโ, Scandinavian Journal of History, pp. 1โ25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2024.2368554.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Norway #Scandinavia #Europe #C17th #C18th #17thcentury #18thcentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
2,000 years of German history in 200 pages
“Before the dawn of the Common Era two thousand years ago, Julius Caesar gave the land its name, Germania. But it was nineteen hundred years before the land became a country. That happened only in 1871 when the ruthless and brilliant Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck united twenty-five independent kingdoms, grand duchies, duchies, principalities, and free cities in a new German Empire.”
https://malwarwickonbooks.com/german-history-in-a-nutshell/
#Read #Reading #BookReview #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #Europe @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
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@bibliolater Note that by the 8th century there was a Schola Anglorum (English quarter) in Rome because of all the travel back-and-forth, so the Anglo-Saxons were never all that insular โ I suspect that stereotype came from 19th century Romanticism, trying to depict them as pure germanic warriors unsullied by Latinate decadence, or some similar racist nonsense.
Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts
“These finds put the Anglo-Saxon princes and their followers centre-stage in one of the last great wars of late antiquity. It takes them out of insular England into the plains of Syria and Iraq in a world of conflict and competition between the Byzantines and the Sasanians and gave those Anglo-Saxons literally a taste for something much more global than they probably could have imagined.”
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #AngloSaxons #England #Europe #Asia #Levant #MiddleEast #Syria #News @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
Independence Day Reading List 2024
“Our Independence Day Reading List highlights the important role of Indigenous Peoples in the evolution of modern America, forgotten stories from Americaโs past, and revelatory biographies of the countryโs founders.”
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/07/04/independence-day-reading-list-2024/
#Read #Reading #ReadingList #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #IndependenceDay #Independence #july4th #july4 #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #History @bookstodon
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Every meteorite we saw falling down to earth
Song melodies have become simpler since 1950s โ study
“An analysis of hundreds of chart hits from the past 70 years has shown โa significant declineโ in the complexity of rhythm and pitch in song melodies, UK researchers said.”
Five common English words we donโt know the origins of โ including โboyโ and โdogโ
“The English lexicon includes some terms known as โproper wordsโ, which today apparently exist only in English. Cognates for them cannot be found in any other language.
These are very simple and common words but being unique, we cannot apply the comparative method to them and therefore cannot reconstruct their origins.”
#History #English #Language #Linguistics #OldEnglish @linguistics
The United States has, by far, the highest death rate from opioids
“In 2021, the United States had, by far, the highest death rate from opioids, with 15.4 deaths per 100,000 people each year. Second behind it was Canada, with 6.9 deaths per 100,000. Several European countries and Russia counted between 3 and 4 deaths per 100,000.”
Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia
“This study suggests that the Bronze Age boat imagery in southern Scandinavia depicts plank-built vessels of a type that belonged to the same boatbuilding tradition as the c. 350 BC Hjortspring boat. More importantly, aspects of this boat imagery can be directly related to the contemporary ship-settings, suggesting use of sail and the existence of boats that from stem to stem (excluding horn projections) might have been in the region of up 20โ30 metres or perhaps even larger.”
Bengtsson, B., Artursson, M. and Wehlin, J. (2024) โEvidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinaviaโ, Norwegian Archaeological Review, pp. 1โ26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2024.2357135.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Scandinavia #Nordic #BronzeAge #Sailing #Boats #History #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons
What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?
“Fascism prospered from a paralysis of the stateโs capacity for dispatching its key organizing functions, whether in the economy or for the larger tasks of keeping cohesion in society. At the worst points of the crisis, that paralysis encompassed the entire institutional machinery of politics, including the parliamentary and party-political frameworks of representation.”
Geoff Eley, What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?, History Workshop Journal, Volume 91, Issue 1, Spring 2021, Pages 1โ28, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbab003
#Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Fascism #Politics #PoliticalScience #DOI #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience @histodon @histodons
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