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Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England

, 2012
Matthew Fisher
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Relationship and Source of Whitings Used as a Painting Ground in Icons From Polish Museum Collections Based on Their Calcareous Nannofossil Content

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In icon painting, chalk whiting is key to creating a gesso ground, providing a smooth, absorbent surface for paint. Calcareous nannofossils, tiny marine skeletons found in chalk, are an ideal tool for analyzing the origin of an icon's chalk ground, often the only reliable information about where the icon came from.
Mariusz Kędzierski, Mirosław P. Kruk
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Mobility Among Inferred Elites Interred in Crypts 1–3 on Kom H at Tungul (Old Dongola), Sudan

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark, Artur Obłuski, Robert Mahler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden. [PDF]

Genome Biol
Beneker O, Molinaro L, Guellil M, Sasso S, Kabral H, Bonucci B, Gaens N, D'Atanasio E, Mezzavilla M, Delbrassine H, Braet L, Lambert B, Deckers P, Biagini SA, Hui R, Becelaere S, Geypen J, Hoebreckx M, Berk B, Driesen P, Pijpelink A, van Damme P, Vanhoutte S, De Winter N, Saag L, Pagani L, Tambets K, Scheib CL, Larmuseau MHD, Kivisild T.   +29 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Scientometrics of the history of science and technology in the Song Dynasty: A discussion on four great subjects in medieval China

, 2006
Wei Qian
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Medicine for the Material World

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
wiley   +1 more source

Fifteen millennia of human mitogenome evolution in Sicily. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Tommasi A, Boscolo Agostini R, Villani G, Rambaldi Migliore N, Vizzari MT, Cardinali I, Di Gerlando R, Nicolini V, Sorasio G, Santos P, Olivieri A, Perego UA, Catalano G, Volante N, Sarti L, Caramelli D, Sineo L, Lancioni H, Modi A, Ghirotto S, Achilli A.   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An ethical case against “responsible” gambling advertising: A UK context‐based, semiotic perspective

Business and Society Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Gambling advertising has hardly been subjected to moral scrutiny, and ethical evaluation is long overdue. In this paper, I put “responsible gambling” messages of UK marketing campaigns purporting efforts by the gambling industry to encourage safer gambling to ethical scrutiny.
Glauco De Vita
wiley   +1 more source

Old Goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland

Findlater J, Erven JA, Siekmann A, Mattiangeli V, The Vargoats Consortium, Murphy E, Daly KG.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Evaluating the Effect of Sex on Mortality Risks in Medieval Ireland. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Ham AC.
europepmc   +1 more source