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Beyond broad strokes: sociocultural insights from the study of ancient genomes [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
The amount of sequence data obtained from ancient samples has dramatically expanded in the last decade, and so have the types of questions that can now be addressed using ancient DNA. In the field of human history, while ancient DNA has provided answers to long-standing debates about major movements of people, it has also recently begun to inform on ...
arxiv  

The PteridoPortal: A publicly accessible collection of over three million records of extant and extinct pteridophytes

Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Pteridophytes—vascular land plants that disperse by spores—are a powerful system for studying plant evolution, particularly with respect to the impact of abiotic factors on evolutionary trajectories through deep time. However, our ability to use pteridophytes to investigate such questions—or to capitalize on the ecological and ...
Carl J. Rothfels, Jaemin Lee, Michael A. Sundue, Alan R. Smith, Amy Kasameyer, Joyce Gross, Garth Holman, Shusheng Hu, Matt von Konrat, Emily B. Sessa, Kimberly Watson, Alan Weakley, Libing Zhang, Patricia Gensel, Michael Hassler, Katelin D. Pearson, Ed Gilbert, Robyn J. Burnham, Richard K. Rabeler, Patrick Sweeney, Alejandra Vasco, Weston Testo, David E. Giblin, Stefanie M. Ickert‐Bond, Margaret Landis, Melanie Link‐Perez, Tatyana Livshultz, Ian Miller, Christopher Neefus, Kathleen Pigg, Mitchell Power, Alan Prather, Tiana Rehman, Lena Struwe, Michael Vincent, George Weiblen, Timothy Whitfeld, Michael D. Windham, George Yatskievych, Aaron Liston, Elizabeth Makings, Kathleen M. Pryer, Caroline Strömberg, Eve Atri, Jason Best, Ian Glasspool, Layne Huiet, Elizabeth Johnson, Megan R. King, Az Klymiuk, Richard Lupia, Lucas C. Majure, Carol Ann McCormick, Richard McCourt, Shanna Oberreiter, Kent D. Perkins, Yarency Rodriguez, Chelsea Smith, James Solomon, Jordan Teisher, Donna Ford‐Werntz, Petra Fuehrding‐Potschkat, Holly Little, Tom A. Ranker, Eric Schuettpelz, Carrie M. Tribble, Diane M. Erwin, Cindy V. Looy   +67 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trimalchio’s last will: shifting interactions between seeming and being

Journal of Historical Network Research, 2019
During the cena Trimalchionis – maybe the most prominent stage of Petronius Satyrica – we come to know of different testamentary dispositions whereby the focus is set on Trimalchio as legatee, heir, and especially as testator.
Elena Köstner
doaj   +1 more source

HABD: a houma alliance book ancient handwritten character recognition database [PDF]

arXiv
The Houma Alliance Book, one of history's earliest calligraphic examples, was unearthed in the 1970s. These artifacts were meticulously organized, reproduced, and copied by the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics. However, because of their ancient origins and severe ink erosion, identifying characters in the Houma Alliance Book is ...
arxiv  

Tokens, Writing and (Ac)counting: A Conversation with Denise Schmandt-Besserat and Bill Maurer

Exchanges, 2017
In her foundational study of Neolithic clay tokens, the renowned archaeologist Denise Schmandt-Besserat identified that different token shapes represented different goods and were used in accounting and distribution.
Denise Wilding, Clare Rowan, Bill Maurer, Denise Schmandt-Besserat   +3 more
doaj  

The third approach to the history of mathematics in China [PDF]

Proceedings of the ICM, Beijing 2002, vol. 3, 947--958, 2003
The first approach to the history of mathematics in China led by Li Yan (1892--1963) and Qian Baocong (1892--1974) featured discovering {\it what} mathematics had been done in China's past. From the 1970s on, Wu Wen-tsun and others shifted this research paradigm to one of recovering {\it how} mathematics was done in ancient China.
arxiv  

Socrates and Sozomen’s Church History in Comparative Perspective

Darulhadis İslami Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2022
Beginning in the 4th century with Eusebius of Caesarea and continued by writers such as Socrates, Sozomenus and Theodoretus, church historiography is very important in terms of historiography.
Bahadır İkican
doaj  

The Ancient Astronomy of Easter Island: The Mamari Tablet Tells (Part 1) [PDF]

arXiv, 2016
The ancient priest-astronomers constantly watched many heavenly bodies. The record about Halley's Comet of 1682 A.D. has been decoded completely. Good agreement between it and the results of European astronomers is seen. The records about Halley's Comet of 1835 A.D. as well as about the sun, the moon, Mars and Saturn have been deciphered as well.
arxiv  

Free Winona: Ancient History [PDF]

, 2008
Free Winona is a newspaper published in Winona, Minnesota in 2008 and 2009. This issue includes: The Jackson St. Coffeehouse; Before Bluff Country Co-op, Famine Foods; Latsch Island Part I; Ellery Foster & the Free Trade Exchange; Guest Column: Early
Free Winona
core   +1 more source

A bothremydid turtle (Pleurodira) from the middle Cenomanian of Vale de Figueira (Belas, Portugal)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract An unpublished turtle shell from the middle Cenomanian of Vale de Figueira, near Belas (Lisbon District, Portugal), is recognized by us as collected in 1880 under the direction of Carlos Ribeiro. No turtle remains from that region had so far been figured, described or discussed from a systematic point of view.
Miguel Telles Antunes, Adán Pérez‐García   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source