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The protohistoric research in Sardinia (Italy) between 1935 and 1950. The birth of the modern archaeology in the Sardinian island

Layers. Archeologia Territorio Contesti, 2020
In this paper we analyse the birth and development of modern archeology, with particular reference to protohistoric research, on the island of Sardinia (Italy), at the center of the Western Mediterranean.
Riccardo Cicilloni
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Population genomic, olfactory, dietary, and gut microbiota analyses demonstrate the unique evolutionary trajectory of feral pigs. [PDF]

Mol Ecol, 2022
Abstract Domestication is an intriguing evolutionary process. Many domestic populations are subjected to strong human‐mediated selection, and when some individuals return to the wild, they are again subjected to selective forces associated with new environments.
Petrelli S, Buglione M, Maselli V, Troiano C, Larson G, Frantz L, Manin A, Ricca E, Baccigalupi L, Wright D, Pietri C, Fulgione D.   +11 more
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Revised phylogeny of mouflon based on expanded sampling of mitogenomes. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Mouflons are flagship species of the Mediterranean islands where they persist. Once thought to be the remnants of a European wild sheep population, archaeology suggests they were introduced by humans to the islands of Cyprus in the Early Neolithic (~10 ...
Paolo Mereu, Monica Pirastru, Pedro Morell Miranda, Gözde Atağ, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Barbara Wilkens, André Elias Rodrigues Soares, Damla Kaptan, Marco Zedda, Nicolò Columbano, Mario Barbato, Salvatore Naitana, Eleftherios Hadjisterkotis, Mehmet Somel, Füsun Özer, Torsten Günther, Giovanni Giuseppe Leoni   +16 more
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A Fully Bayesian Approach to Adult Skeletal Age Estimation: Multivariate Latent Trait Modeling With Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Ordered probit regression is used as a latent trait model, with age at death estimated from a Gompertz distribution. Combined with Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling, this approach eliminates the need for reference priors for transition ages or population parameters.
Müller-Scheeßel N, Fuchs K, Rinne C.
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History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity. [PDF]

Anim Genet
Abstract Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa.
Da Silva A, Ahbara A, Baazaoui I, Jemaa SB, Cao Y, Ciani E, Dzomba EF, Evans L, Gootwine E, Hanotte O, Harris L, Li MH, Mastrangelo S, Missohou A, Molotsi A, Muchadeyi FC, Mwacharo JM, Tallet G, Vernus P, Hall SJG, Lenstra JA.   +20 more
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Hypothesis about the astronomic function of the underground well temple of Sardinian type in Bulgaria [PDF]

Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2013
A detailed description is presented of the ancient underground well temple of Sardinian type which was found in Bulgaria in 1971 near the village Garlo.
Tsonev, L.V.
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A Very Early “Fashion”: Neolithic Stone Bracelets from a Mediterranean Perspective

Open Archaeology, 2021
Ring-shaped objects, used mainly as bracelets, appear in the archaeological record associated with the first farming societies around the Mediterranean area.
Martínez-Sevilla Francisco, Baysal Emma L., Micheli Roberto, Ifantidis Fotis, Lugliè Carlo   +4 more
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PEASANTS, BRIGANDS, AND THE CHRONOPOLITICS OF THE NEW LEVIATHAN IN THE MEZZOGIORNO

History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 24-44, December 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT The image of a backward, archaic South whose barbarian population had remained at a low tier of civilization was a child of Italian unification. Not unlike the Orientalist East, the South that meridionalist discourse brought forth was a “chronotopos”—that is, a time‐space that had supposedly remained in the past.
FERNANDO ESPOSITO
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Exploitation shifted trophic ecology and habitat preferences of Mediterranean and Black Sea bluefin tuna over centuries

Fish and Fisheries, Volume 24, Issue 6, Page 1067-1083, November 2023., 2023
Abstract During recent decades, the health of ocean ecosystems and fish populations has been threatened by overexploitation, pollution and anthropogenic‐driven climate change. Due to a lack of long‐term ecological data, we have a poor grasp of the true impact on the diet and habitat use of fishes. This information is vital if we are to recover depleted
Adam J. Andrews, Christophe Pampoulie, Antonio Di Natale, Piero Addis, Darío Bernal‐Casasola, Veronica Aniceti, Gabriele Carenti, Verónica Gómez‐Fernández, Valerie Chosson, Alice Ughi, Matt Von Tersch, Maria Fontanals‐Coll, Elisabetta Cilli, Vedat Onar, Fausto Tinti, Michelle Alexander   +15 more
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Phoenician–Punic amphorae in northern coastal Etruria: New evidence from Pisa (Italy)

Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 5, Page 955-971, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This study outlines the circulation of Phoenician–Punic amphorae in northern coastal Etruria, with a particular focus on Pisa (Italy), where their presence has been attested since the mid‐eighth century BCE. A set of specimens from Piazza del Duomo was analysed by minero‐petrographic and geochemical techniques.
Emanuele Taccola, Domenico Miriello, Raffaella De Luca, Francesca Cicogna, Serena Coiai, Genea Girimonte, Simona Raneri   +6 more
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