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The French Vinci Motorways Foundation for responsible driving ("Fondation VINCI Autoroutes pour une conduite responsable") published its annual study (for the 12th year) on the most and least...

Interesting study led by Stanford geneticists and covering 204 genomes mostly from Iron Age Europe (+ Armenia, Syria, Lebanon and the Maghreb).

Here is the supplementary material.

A few Latin quotes:



Et nunc, reges, intelligite, erudimini, qui judicatis terram ! (And now, kings, understand, learn, you who judge the world!), said by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, a famous...

I like their timeline.

https://media.springernature.com/full/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1007%2Fs00439-021-02328-6/MediaObjects/439_2021_2328_Fig5_HTML.png

It's nice that they calculated the...

Any place can be cheap depending on how you travel. For people who are on a tight budget staying in youth hostels or camp sites, and cooking by yourself (youth hostels usually have free kitchens for...

Ok, maybe I chose a title that was a bit catchy to grab people's attention. But it's hard to condense all the ideas I wanted to convey in a short title. Nevertheless, even if the eucharist is a...

There are three types of cannibalism in human societies.

1) Actively seeking other humans as prey to kill and eat.
=> This has always been the least common form of cannibalism, but for some...

That does not mean its origin is not a form a ritual cannibalism.

That's a peculiar way of putting it. Why do you associated Christianity with Western Europe in particular, when most of the Christians today live outside Europe, and that Western Europe is less...

The opposite would have surprised me. I also received a Catholic upbringing and was forced to go to catechism. In the absence of knowledge about the history of cannibalism or any notions of...

When you think about it, one of the most fundamental requirement of any Christians is to eat human flesh and drink human blood, or at least the bread and wine that symbolise it. But the way it is...

These maps summarise well the evolution of each main regional ancestry in western Eurasia.

https://www.eupedia.com/images/Mesolithic_ancestry_evolution.png

I have just written a new article attempting to answer the question: Who were the best and worst Kings and regent Queens of France in history?
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I have been using Twitter quite a lot over the last year - more than ever before. I use it mostly to follow interesting posters about science, technologies and archaeology, or just beautiful pictures...

I have just discovered this thread. Great initiative, Tomenable. I am looking forward to your maps of Steppe, WHG, EHG and other ancestries.

That's great! I have added the link on the Ancient Ethnicities Analyzer page.

I have merged the two threads.

Thanks a lot for running the K12b of the samples, Salento!

I have combined the K12b values of the new samples with those of previous studies of Iron Age Gaul and calculated the overall Iron Age...

I have made a table to summarise the Y-DNA and mtDNA. I sorted them by culture, but I noticed that the dates do not always match the culture as they should! For example the COL153A and COL153I...

As Wikipedia states about Queen Anne's War:

"In Europe, it is generally viewed as the American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession; in the Americas, it is more commonly viewed as a...

This low population of North America in the 1700s is actually one of the main reasons why the conflicts happening there were minor and why that also does not qualify the Wars of Spanish/Austrian...

I really don't think that the involvement of Australia is necessary for a war to be called a world war. After all, it is only one country and its population in 1945 was only 7 million, less than...

Very interesting. A few excerpts:

"Despite a great diversity of mitochondrial lineages among French IA groups, nearly 26% of the individuals could be characterised as belonging to haplogroup H....

Perhaps it would be better to divide the wars discussed here in two categories: the World Wars and the Pan-European Wars. The main difference being of course that the former needs to have major...

The Seven Years' War, and I must now add also the Dutch-Portuguese War, were very different from earlier European conflicts as it was fought on all continents and major battles didn't all take place...