Korneel Van Lommel graduated in 2012 with a master’s degree in Ancient History at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. His thesis, entitledSoldaten buiten strijd: verminking, ontreddering en ontslag in het Romeinse leger, looked into the lives of physically and mentally impaired Roman ...
Records imply a degree ofliteracy, and there too the tradition about the 8th century has been confirmed by late 20th-century finds. A cup, bearing the inscription in Greek in the Euboean script “I am the cup of Nestor,” can be securely dated to before 700bce. It was found at an is...
At the individual level, the basic institution in intercity relationships was that of “guest-friendship,” orxenia. That was another area where ritual elements were present to such a marked degree that the whole institution has been called “ritualized friendship.” The same aristocrats who drank...
Joseph Selbie is one of the foremost exponents of the yugas, India’s tradition of cyclical history. The yugas provide context for ancient anomalies, such as Gobekli Tepe, Sanskrit, and the Great Pyramid, as well as for emerging trends, such as the current explosion of interest in experienti...
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Supplementary Data4). We further calculated genotype likelihoods from per-individual masked BAM files using the “SNPbam2vcf.py” script in the lcMLkin v0.5.0 program70and estimated IBD1 and IBD2 coefficients using the lcMLkin program, resulting in distinguishing the first-degree relatives into...
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2022) 14: 64 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01537-y ORIGINAL PAPER Origin and fate of the greatest accumulation of silver in ancient history Janne Blichert‑Toft1 · François de Callataÿ2 · Philippe Télouk1...
Genome Biology (2023) 24:38 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-023-02882-4 Genome Biology METHOD Open Access correctKin: an optimized method to infer relatedness up to the 4th degree from low‑coverage ancient human genomes Emil Nyerki1,2†, Tibor Kalmár1†, Oszkár ...
In Europe, there is a much higher degree of allele sharing with Loschbour than with MA1, which we ascribe to the 60–80% WHG/(WHG + ANE) ratio in most Europeans that we report in Supplementary Information section 14. In contrast, the Near East has no appreciable WHG ancestry but some...
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