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Fertility control in ancient Rome. [PDF]

Womens Hist Rev, 2021
This paper surveys and evaluates the range of methods recommended mostly to promote but also to prevent pregnancy in ancient Rome, and then discusses the practices of adult adoption and infant exposure in more detail in order to interrogate the notion of 'fertility control' from an ancient historical perspective.
Flemming R.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Ancient Rome: A genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean [PDF]

Science, 2019
Margaret L Antonio, Ziyue Gao, Hannah M Moots   +2 more
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MALARIA IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME. [PDF]

Lancet, The, 1907
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Slavery in Ancient Rome [PDF]

Historijski pogledi, 2023
The institution of slavery was characteristic of all the civilizations from Mediterranean basin in ancient times. However, slavery had its widest application in the Roman state, for which it was of immense importance, since slaves were seen as the ...
Sead Bandžović
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How Does Diet Influence Our Lives? Evaluating the Relationship between Isotopic Signatures and Mortality Patterns in Italian Roman Imperial and Medieval Periods

Molecules, 2021
The present research investigates the relationship between dietary habits and mortality patterns in the Roman Imperial and Medieval periods. The reconstructions of population dynamics and subsistence strategies provide a fascinating source of information
Marica Baldoni, Alessandra Nardi, Flavio De Angelis, Olga Rickards, Cristina Martínez-Labarga   +4 more
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Ancient genomes from a rural site in Imperial Rome (1st–3rd cent. CE): a genetic junction in the Roman Empire

Annals of Human Biology, 2021
Background Rome became the prosperous Capital of the Roman Empire through the political and military conquests of neighbouring areas. People were able to move Romeward modifying the Rome area’s demographic structure. However, the genomic evidence for the
Flavio De Angelis, Virginia Veltre, Marco Romboni, Tullia Di Corcia, Giuseppina Scano, Cristina Martínez-Labarga, Paola Catalano, Olga Rickards   +7 more
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Use of Time-Series NDWI to Monitor Emerging Archaeological Sites: Case Studies from Iraqi Artificial Reservoirs

Remote Sensing, 2021
Over the last 50 years, countries across North Africa and the Middle East have seen a significant increase in dam construction which, notwithstanding their benefits, have endangered archaeological heritage.
Andrea Titolo
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Multipronged dental analyses reveal dietary differences in last foragers and first farmers at Grotta Continenza, central Italy (15,500–7000 BP)

Scientific Reports, 2021
This paper provides results from a suite of analyses made on human dental material from the Late Palaeolithic to Neolithic strata of the cave site of Grotta Continenza situated in the Fucino Basin of the Abruzzo region of central Italy.
Alessia Nava, Elena Fiorin, Andrea Zupancich, Marialetizia Carra, Claudio Ottoni, Gabriele Di Carlo, Iole Vozza, Orlando Brugnoletti, Francesca Alhaique, Renata Grifoni Cremonesi, Alfredo Coppa, Luca Bondioli, Dušan Borić, Emanuela Cristiani   +13 more
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«Onora la Madre». Riflessioni tra “ecologia” e “genere” a margine di una recente iniziativa scientifica

Storia delle Donne, 2020
Is there an ancient “ecological awareness” and is it conceivable to refer to it as a legacy that feeds contemporary efforts to innovate in environmental protection? Following an interdisciplinary approach, an innovative research project (ERA - Ecology of
Cecilia Pedrazza Gorlero
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A new “Romen” Empire : Toni Morrison's love and the classics [PDF]

, 2007
An important but little-studied feature of Toni Morrison's novels is their ambivalent relationship with classical tradition. Morrison was a classics minor while at Howard University, and her deployment of the cultural practices of ancient Greece and Rome
Roynon, Tessa Kate
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