The ancient genomes fall onto a slightly separate cline, with most of the early medieval individuals from Dutch, German and Danish sites plotting on top of present-day continental northern Europeans (CNEs; northern Germans and Danish), whereas Bronze and Iron Age individuals from Britain and ...
Cattle were the most common domestic livestock animal throughout much of the Neolithic period in the area now occupied by modern day Switzerland, home to a significant number of sites dating to between approximately 4400 and 2500 cal BC. Many of these sites were located in wetland locations, re...
Phase 1 represents the peak of the Roman settlement of Augusta Raurica (Berger2012), when it was one of the main urban centres in the region. In the middle of the 3rd century, large parts of the city were destroyed, and therefore, Phase 2 represents the moment of the demise of the upp...
This 'chamber pot in the window' myth has become almost synonymous with the early modern period itself in the current, popular, historical imagination, especially in relation to urban settlements. But the majority of urban inhabitants ... LJ Skelton - 《Durham University》 被引量: 2发表: 2012...
What White referred to in the title of his book, The Roots of Dependency, was a cultural and geographical space created as a result of ferocious internecine native warfare in the 1640s–1660s, the so-called Beaver Wars, when Iroquois warriors, armed by Dutch traders in New Netherland, ...
Most of the leading traders in Sudan established zariba-s, trading settlements initially fortified by encirclements of thorn bushes and later by earth berms and timber. The traders deployed thousands of armed men, many of them bazinqir-s, former slaves who were allowed a share of the profits ...
Roman senator and historian Tacitus (ca. 58–ca. 120) described Germania in the first century as densely forested, marshy and backward, non-Roman central Europe had been a settled, cultivated and managed landscape for a considerable time. Logging near settlements, slash-and-burn deforestation, ar...
Northern‚ Middle‚ andSouthernColoniesAmerica has always been a land of diversity. This dates back to the first English settlements in North America. In the beginning‚ thecolonieswere divided up into three distinct areas:northerncolonies‚ middlecolonies‚ andsoutherncolonies. Massachusetts...
Idolatry is a key concept in the history of Western thinking about religion, as an all-encompassing category in which all religions more or less alien to the Christian tradition could be subsumed. From Late Antiquity to the Modern period, we can follow how the notion was put to work within...
The Arabist Lévi-Provençal (1950, p. 224) suggested that some Vikings who attacked Seville and Córdoba in 844 CE established settlements in southeast Seville, where they became cheesemakers and 'converted' to Islam, but he provided no sources for this suggestion of conversion.10 The '...