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UrduA West Virginia University history alumnus is the recipient of the nation’s top award for his dissertation research in Italian history. Luke Gramith received the 2019 Cappadocia Award from the Society for Italian Historical Studies in December.
Tag: History
Archaeologists found the burial of Scythian Amazon with a head dress on Don
Valerii Guliaev, the head of Don expedition, announced the first results of the examination on the 6th of December at the session of Academic Council of IA RAS. “Such head dresses have been found a bit more than two dozen…
Acupuncture’s impact on the body, mind and spirit
Stuart Lightbody’s The 361 Classical Acupuncture Points
Cultural evolution caused broad-scale historical declines of large mammals across China
Extirpations of 5 megafauna taxa from much of China over the past 2 millennia were found to be closely linked to filtering effects driven by cultural evolution rather than climate change
Time-to-death of Roman emperors followed distinct pattern
Roman emperors faced a high risk of violent death in their first year of rule, but the risk slowly declined over the next seven years, according to an article published in the open access journal Palgrave Communications . When statistically…
Ancient Mediterranean seawall first known defense against sea level rise and it failed
7,000-year-old seawall in Tel Hreiz, Israel reveals earliest known structure built against sea level rise and provides new insights into current battle with flooding threat
The distinct history of Jews in Frankfurt
Tobias Freimüller receives the Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize from the Polytechnic Foundation of Frankfurt am Main
Understanding social inequality worldwide
Volkswagen Foundation funds UoC project
Ancient Mediterranean seawall first known defense against sea level rise and it failed
7,000-year-old seawall in Tel Hreiz, Israel reveals earliest known structure built against sea level rise and provides new insights into current battle with flooding threat
The distinct history of Jews in Frankfurt
Tobias Freimüller receives the Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize from the Polytechnic Foundation of Frankfurt am Main
Understanding social inequality worldwide
Volkswagen Foundation funds UoC project
Ancient ‘chewing gum’ yields insights into people and bacteria of the past
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from a thousands-of-years old “chewing gum”. According to the researchers, it is a new untapped source of ancient DNA. During excavations on Lolland, archaeologists have found…
Ancient ‘chewing gum’ yields insights into people and bacteria of the past
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from a thousands-of-years old “chewing gum”. According to the researchers, it is a new untapped source of ancient DNA. During excavations on Lolland, archaeologists have found…
Collective memory shapes the construction of personal memories
In the last century, French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs declared that personal memories are influenced by their social contexts. From this perspective, the memory function of individuals cannot be understood without taking into account the group to which they belong and…
Celebrated ancient Egyptian woman physician likely never existed, says researcher
Merit Ptah is often called the first woman doctor, CU Anschutz researcher calls it a case of mistaken identity
Collective memory shapes the construction of personal memories
In the last century, French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs declared that personal memories are influenced by their social contexts. From this perspective, the memory function of individuals cannot be understood without taking into account the group to which they belong and…
Celebrated ancient Egyptian woman physician likely never existed, says researcher
Merit Ptah is often called the first woman doctor, CU Anschutz researcher calls it a case of mistaken identity
Nuclear freeze movement’s legacy on display at Cornell
Forty years ago this month, disarmament advocate and researcher Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg told peace activists assembled for Mobilization for Survival’s annual meeting that a bilateral nuclear arms freeze “could change the world.” Forsberg’s vision launched a powerful local- and…
It’s time to explain country in indigenous terms
Australia’s First Nations people have unique ties to the land
It’s time to explain country in indigenous terms
Australia’s First Nations people have unique ties to the land
Castration of men was based on knowledge of the female body
Many men know that benign prostate enlargement can affect their quality of life. The prostate, normally the size of a walnut, can swell up, causing pain and a need to urinate frequently. Today there is a range of treatment methods,…
Modern technology and old-fashioned legwork solve science mystery
Video shows single-cell organism making complex decisions
Modern technology and old-fashioned legwork solve science mystery
Video shows single-cell organism making complex decisions
Käthe Beutler: ‘Do something!’
When Bruce Beutler won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2011, he reminisced about his grandmother, telling how she had once explained this distinguished award to him. Her grandson’s Nobel Prize directed medical historians’ attention to the Beutler family. The…
Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?
Researchers now have a clearer picture of the impact of the first plague pandemic, the Justinianic Plague, which lasted from about 541-750 CE. Led by researchers at the University of Maryland’s National-Socio Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), the international team of…
Käthe Beutler: ‘Do something!’
When Bruce Beutler won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2011, he reminisced about his grandmother, telling how she had once explained this distinguished award to him. Her grandson’s Nobel Prize directed medical historians’ attention to the Beutler family. The…
Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?
Researchers now have a clearer picture of the impact of the first plague pandemic, the Justinianic Plague, which lasted from about 541-750 CE. Led by researchers at the University of Maryland’s National-Socio Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), the international team of…
Imaging uncovers secrets of medicine’s mysterious ivory manikins
CHICAGO – Little is known about the origins of manikins–small anatomical sculptures thought to be used by doctors four centuries ago–but now advanced imaging techniques have offered a revealing glimpse inside these captivating ivory dolls. Researchers using micro-CT successfully identified…
Thousands of medieval manuscripts now online in full color through digitization project
Scholars and aficionados can search, download and study 160,000 pages of high-resolution, full-color manuscripts dating to the ninth century, thanks to library partnerships, in a project funded by a Council on Library and Information Resources grant
Thousands of medieval manuscripts now online in full color through digitization project
Scholars and aficionados can search, download and study 160,000 pages of high-resolution, full-color manuscripts dating to the ninth century, thanks to library partnerships, in a project funded by a Council on Library and Information Resources grant
Otago scientist excavates medieval Uzbek cemetery
An Otago scientist has been digging up human remains in the backyards of Uzbek villagers to discover how people lived in the Middle Ages. Department of Anatomy bioarcheologist Dr Rebecca Kinaston has recently returned from a month-long trip to the…
From the farm to the feast
Spark conversation with fun facts about Thanksgiving foods!
Growing length of manifestos casts new light on electioneering history
From a modest 150 words to the length of a children’s book – the number of words used by politicians in their election manifestos has grown substantially in the past century, new research shows. Far from becoming irrelevant because few…
Mongolia’s melting ice reveals clues to history of reindeer herding, threatens way of life
Results of horseback surveys of ice patches in northern Mongolia provide the first archaeological insights from the region, revealing fragile organic artifacts previously buried in ice
Vanishing ice puts reindeer herders at risk
Deep in the Sayan Mountains of northern Mongolia, patches of ice rest year-round in the crooks between hills. Locals in this high tundra call the perennial snowbanks munkh mus, or eternal ice. They’re central to lives of the region’s traditional…
Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality
New Approaches
Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality
New Approaches
DNA data offers scientific look at 500 years of extramarital sex in Western Europe
These days it’s easy to resolve questions about paternity with over-the-counter test kits. Now, researchers have put DNA evidence together with long-term genealogical data to explore similar questions of biological fatherhood on a broad scale among people living in parts…
DNA data offers scientific look at 500 years of extramarital sex in Western Europe
These days it’s easy to resolve questions about paternity with over-the-counter test kits. Now, researchers have put DNA evidence together with long-term genealogical data to explore similar questions of biological fatherhood on a broad scale among people living in parts…
The smell of old books could help preserve them
Old books give off a complex mélange of odors, ranging from pleasant (almonds, caramel and chocolate) to nasty (formaldehyde, old clothes and trash). Detecting early signs of paper degradation could help guide preservation efforts, but most techniques destroy the very…
The smell of old books could help preserve them
Old books give off a complex mélange of odors, ranging from pleasant (almonds, caramel and chocolate) to nasty (formaldehyde, old clothes and trash). Detecting early signs of paper degradation could help guide preservation efforts, but most techniques destroy the very…
Historic shadows in a glass house
Reclaiming the lost narrative of a mid-century American feminist
Historic shadows in a glass house
Reclaiming the lost narrative of a mid-century American feminist
Beyond borders: Geographers link formation of international laws to refugee crisis
West Virginia University geographers are linking the political and human rights issues at borders today to the legacies of foreign and domestic policy across the globe since World War I. Karen Culcasi and Cynthia Gorman , of the Department of…
The medieval Catholic church’s influence on psychology of Western, industrialized societies
The Western Catholic Church’s influence on marriage and family structures during the Middle Ages shaped the cultural evolution of the beliefs and behaviors now common among Western Europeans and their cultural descendants, researchers report. The greater individualism, lower conformity and…
Stanford researchers lay out first genetic history of Rome
Scholars have been studying Rome for hundreds of years, but it still holds some secrets – for instance, relatively little is known about the ancestral origins of the city’s denizens. Now, an international team led by researchers from Stanford University,…
Hurt in the east — distance in the west
Interview project ‘Generation 1975 — being 14 in the new Germany’: As evaluation of material has started, the project initiator from the University of Konstanz considers the results so far
How Human Population came from our ability to cooperate
Humans are an astonishingly successful ape
Catholic Church in Cuba did not stay on the margins of the revolution
First study utilizing archives of the Catholic Church from the Cuban Revolution published at the University of Helsinki
How Human Population came from our ability to cooperate
Humans are an astonishingly successful ape