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Prehistory of Egypt [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1892
THE evidences of denudation are so striking in the ravines of the Egyptian deserts, that I make the following notes, hoping that some trained geologist will be induced to do more for the subject. The successive periods which I have noted are as follow:—
openaire   +1 more source

Chagas disease in prehistory [PDF]

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2011
The classical hypothesis proposes that Chagas disease has been originated in the Andean region among prehistoric people when they started domesticating animals, changing to sedentary habits, and adopting agriculture. These changes in their way of life happened nearly 6,000 years ago.
Ferreira, Luiz F.   +2 more
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Revolutionary Landscapes and Kitchens of Refusal: Tomato Sauce and Sovereignty in Egypt

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 789-809, October 2022., 2022
Abstract This article presents a cultural history of tasbika, a tomato‐based cooking technique, as a window into transformations of sovereignty in colonial and postcolonial Egypt. It draws on cookbooks, popular magazines and oral histories to argue that tasbika’s relatively recent emergence as one of the country's most ubiquitous home cooking methods ...
Anny Gaul
wiley   +1 more source

Obsidian Spearhead in the Middle Paleolithic of the Elbrus Region. Preliminary Data on the Hunting Strategies

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2020
The paper presents the first results of comprehensive studies of the hunting and hunting weapons of the Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic in the Elbrus region in the Northern Caucasus.
Doronicheva Ekaterina V.   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A melting pot of Roman dogs north of the Alps with high phenotypic and genetic diversity and similar diets

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Several dog skeletons were excavated at the Roman town of Augusta Raurica and at the military camp of Vindonissa, located in the northern Alpine region of Switzerland (Germania Superior). The relationships between them and the people, the nature of their
José Granado   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The genetic prehistory of the Andean highlands 7000 years BP though European contact

open access: yesScience Advances, 2018
Ancient DNA from the Andes reveals a complex picture of human adaptation from early settlement to the colonial period. The peopling of the Andean highlands above 2500 m in elevation was a complex process that included cultural, biological, and genetic ...
J. Lindo   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Geographical Dataset Describing the Complexity of the Gor River Megalithic Landscape

open access: yesJournal of Open Archaeology Data, 2023
This paper presents the data that have served as the basis for the study of the spatial patterns of the megaliths of the Gor River Valley (Granada, Spain) as part of a PhD dissertation presented in July 2023 at the University of Granada. This complex, of
Carolina Cabrero González   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A proof of concept for machine learning-based virtual knapping using neural networks

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Prehistoric stone tools are an important source of evidence for the study of human behavioural and cognitive evolution. Archaeologists use insights from the experimental replication of lithics to understand phenomena such as the behaviours and cognitive ...
Jordy Didier Orellana Figueroa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory

open access: yesNature Communications, 2014
The Great Hungarian Plain was a crossroads of cultural transformations that have shaped European prehistory. Here we analyse a 5,000-year transect of human genomes, sampled from petrous bones giving consistently excellent endogenous DNA yields, from 13 ...
C. Gamba   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Amelogenin peptide analyses reveal female leadership in Copper Age Iberia (c. 2900–2650 BC)

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Given the absence of written records, the main source of information available to analyze gender inequalities in early complex societies is the human body itself.
Marta Cintas-Peña   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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