Social Stratification Without Genetic Differentiation at the Xisima Site in the Late Shang Dynasty. [PDF]
Tang J +14 more
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Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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Was descent in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe patrilineal or bilateral? [PDF]
Guyon L, Heyer E, Chaix R.
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Humeral Septal Aperture in Ancient Tombos Nubians. [PDF]
Love J +6 more
europepmc +1 more source
Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales
ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
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Trash Talking: Anthropogenic Resources Facilitate Raccoon Interactions in Urban Environments. [PDF]
Plimpton LD +10 more
europepmc +1 more source
Urban peatlands can harbour diverse insect communities but depend on appropriate habitat management
Urban peatlands can support high insect diversity, including endangered species and peat bog specialists. Flower diversity boosts endangered species, while succession cover reduces overall insect richness—but bog condition and urbanization showed no major effects.
Nadja Pernat +3 more
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Molecular identification of resistance to organophosphates and carbamates in Aedes aegypti of different physiological ages in a cemetery in Peru. [PDF]
Santillan-Valdivia RE +3 more
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