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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Tracing the pathways to Yathrib (Al-Madinah): A GIS-based analysis of settlement patterns and ancient trade networks. [PDF]

PLoS One
Metwaly M, Alshami A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
wiley   +1 more source

Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic. [PDF]

Nature
Marsh WA, Scarsbrook L, Yüncü E, Hodgson L, Lin AT, De Iorio M, Thalmann O, Thomas MG, Goor M, Bergström A, Noseda A, Amiri S, Biglari F, Borić D, Bougiouri K, Carmagnini A, Giannì M, Higham T, Lebrasseur O, Linderholm A, Mannino MA, Middleton C, Mustafaoğlu G, Perri A, Peters J, Richards M, Sarıtaş Ö, Skoglund P, Stevens RE, Stringer C, Tabbada K, Talbot HM, Van der Sluis LG, Bello SM, Dimitrijevic V, Martin L, Mashkour M, Parfitt SA, Vukovic S, Brace S, Craig OE, Baird D, Charlton S, Larson G, Barnes I, Frantz LAF.   +45 more
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
wiley   +1 more source

Probing the zooarchaeological record across time and space for ancient pathogen DNA. [PDF]

Nat Commun
W Runge AK, Light-Maka I, Massy K, Keller M, Trixl S, Kabral H, Kirkpatrick CL, Bos K, Eger J, Ernée M, Kyselý R, Hochmuth M, Poradowski D, Chrószcz A, Benecke N, Daněček D, Klementová J, Nagler A, Kalmykov AA, Kantorovich AR, Maslov VE, Belinskiy AB, Scheib CL, Toderaş M, Hansen S, Stockhammer PW, Kaniuth K, Uhl R, Reinhold S, Gillis RE, Nelson EA, Pawłowska K, Key FM.   +32 more
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Four Questions for Ethnographers Under Trumpian Authoritarianism

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines evolving challenges and ethical dilemmas facing ethnographers working under intensifying authoritarianism in the United States. Because very little of what the United States is experiencing is new, my work here is primarily curatorial in nature, drawing upon the lessons offered by scholars across disciplines in the United
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring mobility in Bronze Age Greece: A Sr isotope perspective. [PDF]

PLoS One
Frank AB, Moutafi I, Sabatini S, Frei R, Voutsaki S, Orgeolet R, Lambrinoudakis V, Kolonas L, Rambach J, Boyd M, Margaritis E, Kristiansen K, Frei KM.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sourcing the origins of carnelian in early Chinese civilizations. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Yan M, Liu J, Qin C, He X, Li X, Yu J, Mao R, Han H, Sun Z, Wang C, Xie Z, Ran H, Tang F, Kenoyer JM, Tang Z.   +14 more
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An archaeo-metabolomics approach for identifying cedar tar in archaeological samples: differentiating plant products and production processes. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Huber B, Pollet O, Kandil SB, Graen D, Spanneut L, Giddings Vassão D, Mas-Normand L, Joliot C, Roche E, Burri S, Durand A, Regert M, Fernandes R, Pickett JA, Culioli G, Devièse T.   +15 more
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