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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Small-scale phreatic explosions from a low-enthalpy hydrothermal system caused the abandonment of Milos Island (Greece) in Roman times. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Sulpizio R   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Impact‐diagnostic criteria for use in confirming a meteorite impact origin of terrestrial geological structures: Recommendations by the Impact Cratering Committee of the Meteoritical Society

open access: yesMeteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The framework of the Impact Cratering Committee (ICC) of the Meteoritical Society was approved in 2020, with the first committee members appointed in 2023. The ICC has a mandate to (1) approve, maintain, and update a database of confirmed terrestrial meteorite impact structures, (2) define and regularly update the criteria used for ...
A. J. Cavosie   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The genomic history of Streptococcus mutans from the Mesolithic until modern times. [PDF]

open access: yesGenome Biol
Thygesen VFDF   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Some Reflections on the Role of GIS in Landscape Archaeology

open access: yes, 2011
van Leusen, Martijn; id_orcid   +1 more
core  

Beyond Deterministic Fetal Programming: Intrauterine Exposures and the Multifactorial Origins of Adiposity

open access: yesObesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Excess adiposity is not a recently developed problem but has existed since at least the upper Paleolithic, allowing evolutionary selection pressures to adapt the physiology of the pregnant woman and the feto‐placental unit for maternal and fetal protection.
Gernot Desoye   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

BRINGING BACK FAMILIAR FORMS: RECYCLING QUINA SCRAPERS AT THE LATE LOWER PALAEOLITHIC QESEM CAVE, ISRAEL

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.
Summary This study presents a technological analysis of 18 old patinated scrapers and spalls, mostly of Quina technology, that were recycled into new scrapers of the same type at the Late Lower Palaeolithic site of Qesem Cave, Israel (420–200 kyr). Recycling scrapers into the same Quina and demi‐Quina types offers a rare, controlled opportunity to ...
Bar Efrati
wiley   +1 more source

Multidisciplinary identification of human skeletal remains from the karst abyss in Demänovská Valley (19th-20th century calCE, Slovakia). [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Barta P   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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