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"In this article, two networks, one created from archaeological finds and the other from the writings of four medieval travellers, are analysed using various Social Network Analysis centrality measures and Complex Systems Science models and are compared to each other in order to explore the importance of various Mediterranean settlements and the ways in which movement occurred around the region, investigating whether they challenge or support current understandings."

Annabel Hancock, Tracing connections: using network analysis to study trade and movement in the Mediterranean in the 11th to 14th centuries, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2023;, fqad056, doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad056

🇩🇰 "We propose that the interdependent relationships between mobility, pastoralism and barrow-building in the third millennium BC produced a cosmological complex which endured as the social backbone of the Nordic Bronze Age (c. 1700–500 BC) in western Jutland."

Haughton, M., & Løvschal, M. (2023). Ancestral commons: The deep-time emergence of Bronze Age pastoral mobility. Antiquity, 1-18. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.154 @archaeodons

"In this article, after briefly describing the meaning of the notion of truth, I have tried to analyse the relation between value and science in detail and provide an explanation for the present-day hypertrophic, rigid, and not reality-bound value system and its ideological penetration into science and medicine."

Bikfalvi, A. (2023). The Notion of Truth in Sciences and Medicine, Why it Matters and Why We Must Defend It. European Review, 31(5), 498-509. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S1062798723000 @philosophy @philosophyofscience @science

"Friction determines whether liquid droplets slide off a solid surface or stick to it. Surface heterogeneity is generally acknowledged as the major cause of increased contact angle hysteresis and contact line friction of droplets. Here we challenge this long-standing premise for chemical heterogeneity at the molecular length scale."

Lepikko, S., Jaques, Y.M., Junaid, M. et al. Droplet slipperiness despite surface heterogeneity at molecular scale. Nat. Chem. (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-013 @science

"We propose that this process of lithosphere growth—with diamonds attached to the supercontinent keel by the diapiric uprise of depleted buoyant material and pieces of slab crust—could have enhanced supercontinent stability."

Timmerman, S., Stachel, T., Koornneef, J.M. et al. Sublithospheric diamond ages and the supercontinent cycle. Nature (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-066 @science

21 Oct 1626: the will of Samuel Purchas, prolific publisher of travel accounts is published #otd (BM)

here's a lovely map of Chicago in 1871, right before the great fire

map by W. Flint of the US Library of Congress - this image is hosted on wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ch

#chicago #map #wikipedia

"Sixty-three skeletons from the Pre Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) sites of Tell Halula, Tell Ramad and Dja'de El Mughara dating between 8,700–6,600 cal. B.C. were analyzed, and 15 validated mitochondrial DNA profiles were recovered. In order to estimate the demographic contribution of the first farmers to both Central European and Western Mediterranean Neolithic cultures, haplotype and haplogroup diversities in the PPNB sample were compared using phylogeographic and population genetic analyses to available ancient DNA data from human remains belonging to the Linearbandkeramik-Alföldi Vonaldiszes Kerámia and Cardial/Epicardial cultures."

Fernández E, Pérez-Pérez A, Gamba C, Prats E, Cuesta P, et al. (2014) Ancient DNA Analysis of 8000 B.C. Near Eastern Farmers Supports an Early Neolithic Pioneer Maritime Colonization of Mainland Europe through Cyprus and the Aegean Islands. PLOS Genetics 10(6): e1004401. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1 @science @anthropology

🇮🇪 "The Neolithic and Bronze Age transitions were profound cultural shifts catalyzed in parts of Europe by migrations, first of early farmers from the Near East and then Bronze Age herders from the Pontic Steppe. However, a decades-long, unresolved controversy is whether population change or cultural adoption occurred at the Atlantic edge, within the British Isles."

Cassidy, L.M. et al. (2015) 'Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(2), pp. 368–373. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.151844511. @science @archaeodons

🇮🇷 🇮🇳 "Despite this, we infer that Indian Zoroastrians (Parsis) intermixed with local groups sometime after their arrival in India, dating this mixture to 690–1390 CE and providing strong evidence that Iranian Zoroastrian ancestry was maintained primarily through the male line."

López, S. et al. (2017) 'The Genetic Legacy of Zoroastrianism in Iran and India: Insights into Population Structure, Gene Flow, and Selection,' American Journal of Human Genetics, 101(3), pp. 353–368. doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.07. @science

🇵🇱 "Results showed that the level of differentiation within Polish population is quite low, but some differences were indicated. It was confirmed that the Polish population is characterized by a high degree of homogeneity, with only slight genetic differences being observed at the regional level."

Grochowalski, Ł. et al. (2020) 'Y-Chromosome Genetic analysis of modern Polish population,' Frontiers in Genetics, 11. doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.567. @science @anthropology

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order."
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English poet, philosopher, and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born #OTD in 1772. Coleridge together with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

Books by Samuel Taylor Coleridge at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/95

#books #literature

French physicist Jacques Babinet died #OTD in 1872.

Among Babinet's accomplishments are the 1827 standardization of the Ångström unit for measuring light using the red Cadmium line's wavelength, and the principle that similar diffraction patterns are produced by two complementary screens. He was the first to suggest using wavelengths of light to standardize measurements. His idea was first used between 1960 and 1983, when a meter was defined as a wavelength of light from krypton gas.

#science

🇵🇹 🇪🇸 Murillo-Barroso, M., Cólliga, A.M. & Martinón-Torres, M. The earliest Baltic amber in Western Europe. Sci Rep 13, 14250 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-412 @archaeodons

Maps in the Wild: A remarkable map projection: This remarkable map projection illustrates how the world’s oceans form one continuous unbroken water body that is bounded by the continental land masses. Whilst the Mercator projection has been with us since 1569, it was nearly 400 years later in 1942 that the Spilhaus projection was developed. This beautiful map which uses this fascinating projection, […]

More on Mappery. mappery.org/a-remarkable-map-p

"Furnishing a palpable proof of the daily rotation of the earth..."

a favorite frontispiece from 1860 showing the practical wonder of time and it could be illustrated around the world. The Geographical Clock, also notes how the new technology of telegraphy confirms it!
#map #dataviz #maps #earth #technology

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