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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]

open access: yesAnim 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 ...
Raudsepp T   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Spartan dependence on Laurion lead

open access: yesArchaeometry, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Eastern Encounters: Ilia Repin's Orientalist Aesthetics Abroad and at Home

open access: yesArt History, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 228-255, April 2023., 2023
This essay examines Ilia Repin's sustained engagement with European Orientalist painting and its impact on his oeuvre. Through close readings of three of his major works, Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom (1876), Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885), and Zaporozhian Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan (1880–91), it argues that Repin ...
Maria Taroutina
wiley   +1 more source

Hiding in plain sight: Integrative analyses uncover a cryptic Salvia species in Europe

open access: yesTAXON, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 78-97, February 2023., 2023
Abstract Salvia is the most species‐rich genus of the family Lamiaceae, currently numbering almost 1000 species. The diagnostic feature of the genus is the unique staminal lever mechanism that allows for specific pollination modes. We encountered an unusual Salvia form in the field, in SE Romania, which resembles S.
Attila Mátis   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diverse Deformation Mechanisms and Lithologic Controls in an Active Orogenic Wedge: Structural Geology and Thermochronometry of the Eastern Greater Caucasus

open access: yesTectonics, Volume 41, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Orogenic wedges are common at convergent plate margins and deform internally to maintain a self‐similar geometry during growth. New structural mapping and thermochronometry data illustrate that the eastern Greater Caucasus mountain range of western Asia undergoes deformation via distinct mechanisms that correspond with contrasting lithologies ...
A. R. Tye   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE PERISHABLE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE PONTIC STEPPE SCYTHIANS: SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF A FOURTH‐CENTURY BC KURGAN BURIAL AT BULHAKOVO, UKRAINE

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 397-422, November 2022., 2022
Summary Using the organic artefacts from the fourth‐century BC grave at Bulhakovo in southern Ukraine, this article discusses the economics of the perishable material culture of the Scythians of the Pontic Steppe region. Thanks to the survival of organic materials (wood, leather, textiles), the burial provides important information about the complex ...
Marina Daragan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The mortuary treatment of children at Late Roman/Early Byzantine (L)Ibida (4th – 6th Centuries AD)

open access: yesMateriale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2023
This study evaluates the treatment of children in death through an examination of the available archaeological evidence related to mortuary practices from Late Roman and Early Byzantine (L) Ibida (Slava Rusă, Tulcea County, Romania).
Crețu, C.
doaj   +1 more source

The Defence of the Long Walls of Thrace (Μακρά Τείχη τῆς Θρᾴκης) under Justinian the Great (527–565 A.D.) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The paper discusses the question of the defence of the Long Walls of Thrace (Μακρά Τείχη τῆς Θρᾴκης) or the Anastasian Wall (Αναστάσειο Τείχος) under Justinian the Great (527–565 A.D.).
Wiewiorowski, Jacek
core   +1 more source

The Stone Crypt of Oguz Barrow: Search for Analogies

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2019
This article is devoted to searching for analogies of the unique stone crypt of Oguz Scythian royal barrow, which is located in the South of the Black Sea Steppe in the Dnepr-Molochnaya interfluve.
Sergey G. Koltukhov
doaj   +1 more source

A chronology of the Scythian antiquities of Eurasia based on new archaeological and C-14 data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The paper is compares the chronology of the monuments of the Scythian epoch located in the east and west of the Eurasian steppe zone on the basis of both archaeological and radiocarbon data.
Alekseev, A.Y.   +13 more
core   +4 more sources

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