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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
wiley   +1 more source

A bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr isoscape of Mongolia: Implications for the reconstruction of past human and animal mobility. [PDF]

PLoS One
Le Corre M, Douville E, Dapoigny A, Tran KV, Turbat T, Enkhbayar G, Lepetz S, Zazzo A.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Response to Comment on ‘Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains—a review’

Boreas, EarlyView.
Jiri Chlachula
wiley   +1 more source

The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
wiley   +1 more source

Preserving coastal environments requires an integrated natural and cultural resources management approach. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Mehta JM, Chamberlain EL, Helmer M, Haire E, McCoy MD, van Beek R, Wang H, Yu S.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reassessing the role of the Urals in Palaeolithic Cave‐Art Research—Comments on ‘Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains—a review’

Boreas, EarlyView.
Aitor Ruiz‐Redondo
wiley   +1 more source

Map and Archival Evidence of the Historical Avulsion of the Brahmaputra River

The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract One of the world's great rivers, the Brahmaputra, avulsed—changed course—significantly sometime between the dates of 1765 and 1830. These are the dates of surveys by James Rennell (grey) and Richard Wilcox (black), both under the direction of the East India Company; no other surveys between these dates can refine the estimate of the ...
Keith Richards, Hugh Brammer, Patricia Saunders   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Cerezo-Román JI, Sawchuk E, Schilt F, Bertacchi A, Buckley G, Chibisa E, Fahey BP, Falchenberg SGH, Kaliba P, Kennett DJ, Mercader J, Pargeter J, Stock J, Szymanski R, Thompson JC.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Advancing Archaeobotanical Methods: Morphometry, Bayesian Analysis and AMS Dating of Rose Prickles from Monteagudo Almunia, Spain (12th Century-Present). [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Rivera D, Navarro J, Camarero I, Valera J, Rivera-Obón DJ, Obón C.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Archaic humans in the Middle Palaeolithic Levant conducted planned and selective intercepts of aurochs, but not mass hunting. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Yeshurun R, Hartman G, May H, Rivals F, Crater Gershtein KM, Zeigen C, Zaidner Y.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source