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Tag: History
Vampire folklore has more chemistry than you’d think (video)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2019 — Halloween season wouldn’t be the same without the undead. This week on Reactions, we unpack the chemistry that might have inspired one of our favorites: the vampire: https:/ / youtu. be/ hTtitLeGvV0 . Reactions is…
Tuninetti named 2019 Singer Professor in the Humanities
Ángel Tuninetti is a passionate advocate for the importance of the humanities in higher education and society. He has been named the 2019 Singer Professor in the Humanities, recognizing his dedication and commitment to the study of the Spanish language and Latin American literature and cultures.
Preserved pollen tells the history of floodplains
Fossil pollen can help reconstruct the past and predict the future
Happy 50th Internet, insights from a Virginia Tech expert
Fifty years ago, on October 29, 1969, the first message was sent via what we now know as the internet. While so much has been achieved, problems still remain, as associate professor of Science and Technology Janet Abbate points out. Abbate also…
Snap! How the camera took over the world
Images are a powerful tool — they can can topple a politician, alter the course of a war and help bring about significant social change
Lead pollution from Native Americans attributed to crushing galena for glitter paint
A new study of Native American use of galena increases understanding of how they were using the land and its resources
What is Europe? Exploring post-war history through the medical lens
Charité secures new ERC Synergy Grant
Tales of travel: Research project explores travel writing in the early modern period
Travelogues gained in popularity in Europe from the mid-18th century and subsequently grew in social and political significance
From Haft Tappeh to the world wide web
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz und Mainz University of Applied Sciences are digitizing 3,500-year old cuneiform texts
Study ‘cures’ oldest case of deafness in human evolution
BINGHAMTON, NY – An international team of researchers including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, has published a new study examining a 430,000-year-old cranium of a human ancestor that was previously described as deaf, representing the oldest…
The American Physical Society announces Historic Sites for 2019
The Historic Sites initiative recognizes landmarks significant to physics history across the United States.
10 million Euro ERC Synergy Grant awarded for study of medieval populations
IAS’s Patrick Geary among four PIs to head study
Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk: Memory culture and political interests
New publication sheds light on a heated debate on the eve of a key election in Poland
Cretan tomb’s location may have strengthened territorial claim
Understanding Prepalatial Crete
ERC Starting Grant for research on monastic communities on Mount Athos in the Middle Ages
Zachary Chitwood of Mainz University will set up a comprehensive database that will include the inhabitants and visitors of Athos over a period of 700 years and paint a new picture of the monastic republic and its manifold connections
A look at Japan’s evolving intelligence efforts
New book examines the past and future of Japanese intelligence services in a rapidly shifting world
Columbus Day glorifies the enslavement of Native Americans and should be replaced by Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Columbus Day glorifies the enslavement of Native Americans and should be replaced by Indigenous Peoples’ Day, according to Binghamton University anthropologist Matthew Sanger. For many Native Americans, Columbus Day is seen as glorifying the colonization of the Americas and the…
Early hunter-gatherers interacted much sooner than previously believed
BINGHAMTON, NY – A nearly 4,000-year-old burial site found off the coast of Georgia hints at ties between hunter-gatherers on opposite sides of North America, according to research led by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York .…
Ancient genomes provide insight into the genetic history of the second plague pandemic
Analysis of 34 ancient plague genomes from the Black Death and succeeding plague epidemics in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries, reveals how the bacterium diversified after a single introduction
Why some greens turn brown in historical paintings
Enticed by the brilliant green hues of copper acetate and copper resinate, some painters in the Renaissance period incorporated these pigments into their masterpieces. However, by the 18th century, most artists had abandoned the colors because of their tendency to…
Using past extinctions to drive future conservation
Late Quaternary extinctions of large animals have historically been understood as global phenomena, resulting from climate fluctuations or quickly dispersing human populations. However, new technologies are enabling fine-grain analyses that shed new light on individual species’ varied responses to changing…
Aristocratic family trees became scientific model
Before the French Revolution, family trees were reserved for the feudal upper classes, who used them to consolidate their social status. While feudalism broke down and family trees lost their old roles, the trees gained new functions as scientific models.…
Architects have recreated the Puerta de Triana (Triana Gate) in Seville
It connected the city with the metropolitan area; it was built in 1588 and demolished in 1868
Buffalo State Professor on the 1619 Project
Steve Peraza, assistant professor in the History and Social Studies Education Department at Buffalo State, weighs in on the project, and how to apply the lessons learned to the real world.
Tripolye ‘mega-structures’ were ancient community centers
Special class of buildings reflect social organization in Ukraine in the 4th millennium BCE
Did a common childhood illness take down the neanderthals?
A 21st century nuisance for parents may have proved deadly to early man
Research on the good life
ZiF conference on late socialist societies
Early humans used tiny, flint ‘surgical’ tools to butcher elephants
New discovery by Tel Aviv University-led research group suggests early humans in the Levant were sop
Bones of Roman Britons provide new clues to dietary deprivation
Researchers at the University of Bradford have shown a link between the diet of Roman Britons and their mortality rates for the first time, overturning a previously-held belief about the quality of the Roman diet. Using a new method of…
First ancient DNA from Indus Valley civilization links its people to modern South Asians
Researchers have successfully sequenced the first genome of an individual from the Harappan civilization, also called the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). The DNA, which belongs to an individual who lived four to five millennia ago, suggests that modern people in…
Comparing primate vocalizations
Study shows Old World monkeys combine items in speech — but only two and never more, unlike humans
The Chemistry of Art: Scientists Explore Aged Paint in Microscopic Detail to Inform Preservation Efforts
To learn more about the chemical processes in oil paints that can damage aging artwork, a team led by researchers at the National Gallery of Art and the National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a range of studies that included 3D X-ray imaging of a paint sample at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source.
A 3.8-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia reveals the face of Lucy’s ancestor
Researchers discover ‘remarkably complete’ cranium of Australopithecus anamensis
Clues to early social structures may be found in ancient extraordinary graves
Elaborate burial sites can provide insight to the development of socio-political hierarchies in early human communities, according to a study released August 28, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by an international team of archaeologists, anthropologists and neuroscientists of…
Unraveling the history and science behind ancient decorative metal threads
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 27, 2019 — When it comes to historical fashion, nothing stands out more than an item woven with shiny metal threads. These threads have been woven into textiles since ancient times and have been used by cultures…
Crack in Pacific seafloor caused volcanic chain to go dormant
UH geologists discover 10 million years of silence
Book traces rise of ‘free enterprise’ as cornerstone of conservatism
Cornell historian Lawrence Glickman published a new book tracing the origin and use of the term “free enterprise” in conservative philosophy.
IRS budget cuts result in $34.3 billion in lost tax revenue from large firms
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Budget cuts at the Internal Revenue Service threaten the agency’s effectiveness and have led to billions of dollars in lost tax revenue, new research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business shows. The research is among…
National narcissism rears its head in study of WWII
Arts & Sciences study suggests history may look different from the other side
Ancient feces reveal how ‘marsh diet’ left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with parasites
New research published today in the journal Parasitology shows how the prehistoric inhabitants of a settlement in the freshwater marshes of eastern England were infected by intestinal worms caught from foraging for food in the lakes and waterways around their…