After her death in 2006, friends of Finnis took steps to preserve her extensive photographic archive, which was eventually housed by the RHS and a biography of Finnis by Ursula Buchan, Garden People (Thames & Hudson 2007), brought details of her life and her extraordinary images to a wider ...
The next several Ancient Connections have haplogroups that are a subgroup of haplogroup X2. These people lived sometime between 500 years ago in Hungary, and 8390-9250 years ago when Kennewick Man lived in the present-day state of Washington in the US. Kennewick Man merits his own discussion...
Combined share of Central/Southern/East Africa is 52%, looking only at the Sub Saharan African breakdown (n=126). These are all most likely Bantu related. A majority when compared with the West African total (40% + 6%). However nearly half of all matches I found in this survey were ...
from health status to social welfare systems [1]. The complexity of the linkages that build the health ecosystem, both public and private, has made it prone to corruption [2]. If we add public spending, which sometimes totals the largest allocations of countries...
These Neolithic tribes might have been essentially goat herders from the Fertile Crescent who migrated south to the Arabian peninsula, across the Red Sea to the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia), the Sudan, Egypt, then westward to the Maghreb, eventually reaching Andalusia some 7,000 years ...
recent strontium isotope analyses on wool textiles from the Early Bronze Age in Denmark suggest that the clothing found in a number of local elite graves was manufactured mainly with wool produced outside present-day Danish territory, the island of Bornholm excluded (Frei et al.2015; Frei et ...
- a paleopathological and archaeometric approach, Heritage Science 1, no.11 (Jan 2013): 19.https://doi.org/10.1186/2050-7445-1-19Kristin N. Harper, Sascha Knauf Treponema pallidum Infection in Primates: Clinical Manifestations, Epidemiology, and Evolution of a Stealthy Pathogen, (Jun 2013):...
Oyster sauce is actually a fairly recent invention, dating back to 1888. Lee Kum Sheung, a food stall owner in Nanshui, to the south of Zhuhai in modern-day Guangdong province, was simmering a pot of oyster soup in his stall for his lunch customers. Something — we don't know what —...
Rice is clearly central to wider East Asian, Southeast Asian and South Asian civilization areas in terms of economy and landscape (Gorou1984; Bray1994). Indeed some scholars have pointed to a great and fundamental contrast between the civilization(s) of rice and Mediterranean bread cultures (e....
The Appy is known world wide and was created by the Nez Perce Indians, who are now in the process of creating yet another breed! Arabian The Arabian with his characteristic high forehead and delicate dry profile, proudly carried tail, intelligence and gentleness is of ancient heritage and has...