Genetic history of Scythia. [PDF]
Sci AdvGreat Scythia was the ancient Greek name for the area stretching from the northern Black Sea coast to the Middle Don. Using high-quality genomic data generated from 131 ancient individuals from Great Scythia and neighboring regions of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, we established the genetic structure of the Scythians, revealing their diverse origin ...
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Examining the Causal Structures of Deep Neural Networks Using Information Theory. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2020 Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are often examined at the level of their response to input, such as analyzing the mutual information between nodes and data sets.
Marrow S, Michaud EJ, Hoel E.
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Ten years of the horse reference genome: insights into equine biology, domestication and population dynamics in the post-genome era. [PDF]
Anim Genet, 2019 Summary The horse reference genome from the Thoroughbred mare Twilight has been available for a decade and, together with advances in genomics technologies, has led to unparalleled developments in equine genomics. At the core of this progress is the continuing improvement of the quality, contiguity and completeness of the reference genome, and its ...
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On the Sarmatian Conquest of Scythia
Nizhnevolzhskiy Arheologicheskiy Vestnik, 2018 The chronotope of Scythia conquest is one of the main issues of archaeology and history of the Scythian and Sarmatian Age. The literature sources present four versions of reasons and events, which led to the desintegration of Scythia in the 3rd century BC: the Celtic (expansion of the Celts from the Balkan region); the climatic (sharp deterioration of ...
Aleksandr V. Simonenko
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Pilgrims from the Province of Scythia
Frontière·sThe ampullae are the most representative artefacts that confirm the phenomenon of pilgrimage, as practised in the early Byzantine period by the inhabitants of the province of Scythia. The scope of the present material is the research carried out on the eight ampullae that have been discovered so far in the region between the Lower Danube and the Black ...
Dan Aparaschivei
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Glass beads – monochrome pyramidal, flat rhomboid and biconical – types 88–96, 112–115 and 171 of E.M. Alekseyeva. In search of chronoindicators for microchronology of kurgans and burials of the Black Sea Scythia of the 5th – 4th centuries BC [PDF]
Античный мир и археология, 2022 Using Greek ceramics and arrowheads from the Scythian kurgans of the Northern Black Sea region the article proposes chronology of glass monochrome beads – biconical, pyramidal and flat rhomboid, identified in types 88–96, 112–115 and ...
Polin, Sergey Vasil’evich +1 more
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Nuova Antologia Militare, 2021 Since the very dawn of the Principate two legions had been sharing the ordinal number Fourth, namely IV Macedonica (then renamed IV Flauia Felix) and IV Scythica. The name Scythica stands out conspicuously from the legions of Caesar Augustus.
Maurizio Colombo
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Hol is van Szkítia? Egy földrajzi fogalom történeti topográfiai változásairól - Where is in fact Scythia? Thoughts on the Historical-Topographical Change of a Geographical Concept [PDF]
Belvedere Meridionale, 2014 In most antique and medieval geographical and historical works Scythia is described as an extensive land with altering borders. The present study examines Scythia as a gradually forming geographical concept.
SZABÓ, Pál
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Spartan dependence on Laurion lead
Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 5, Page 1044-1058, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article presents contextual evidence for the interpretation of lead isotope analysis (LIA) of artefacts from the Archaic Greek Mediterranean. In particular, I make a response to Wood’s suggestion in Archaeometry (2022, first view, ‘Other ways to examine the finances behind the birth of Classical Greece’) that the end of the production of ...
James Thomas Lloyd
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SOME REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THE PHIALE WITH THE IMAGES OF HERACLES AND AUGE FROM THE ROGOZEN TREASURE [PDF]
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2022 One of the most important finds from the richest of the Thracian hoards, the Rogozen Treasure, is the so-called Auge Phiale. Its chronological position is crucial for the dating of the Hoard and had already been a point of debates.
Treister, M.
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