Procrustes Stretched
Dante's Manifesto
Minoan culture Crete - s/west coast of Greece - Beringia standstill hypothesis - Yersinia pestis
The Minoan culture on Crete exerted a strong influence on the people of southern Greece.
Archaeologists digging at Pylos, an ancient city on the southwest coast of Greece, have discovered the rich grave of a warrior who was buried at the dawn of European civilization.
He lies with a yardlong bronze sword and a remarkable collection of gold rings, precious jewels and beautifully carved seals. Archaeologists expressed astonishment at the richness of the find and its potential for shedding light on the emergence of the Mycenaean civilization, the lost world of Agamemnon, Nestor, Odysseus and other heroes described in the epics of Homer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/s...eece-could-be-a-gateway-to-civilizations.html
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Yersinia pestis
In Ancient DNA, Evidence of Plague Much Earlier Than Previously Known
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/s...lague-much-earlier-than-previously-known.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/s...lues-on-how-people-settled-the-americas.html?
According to the standstill hypothesis, the ancestors of Native Americans would have built up a large degree of genetic diversity in the thousands of years they were confined to Beringia — more so than if these populations had migrated directly from Siberia to the Americas.
The fact that two children who died at roughly the same time in the same community shared so few genes is consistent with the idea that the population was prevented from moving into the Americas for thousands of years, Dr. O’Rourke said.
But the two children died after the glaciers melted, he noted, and their settlement “may well be a remnant of that original Beringian group. It may give us a snapshot of that earlier time.”
Dr. Malhi, who was not involved in the new study, thought the new DNA was too recent to provide proof of the idea that humans were trapped in Beringia for thousands of years. “It’s valuable information, but it’s a little bit late to be extremely informative to let us know if the Beringian Standstill hypothesis holds,” he said.
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The Minoan culture on Crete exerted a strong influence on the people of southern Greece.
Archaeologists digging at Pylos, an ancient city on the southwest coast of Greece, have discovered the rich grave of a warrior who was buried at the dawn of European civilization.
He lies with a yardlong bronze sword and a remarkable collection of gold rings, precious jewels and beautifully carved seals. Archaeologists expressed astonishment at the richness of the find and its potential for shedding light on the emergence of the Mycenaean civilization, the lost world of Agamemnon, Nestor, Odysseus and other heroes described in the epics of Homer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/s...eece-could-be-a-gateway-to-civilizations.html
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Yersinia pestis
In Ancient DNA, Evidence of Plague Much Earlier Than Previously Known
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/s...lague-much-earlier-than-previously-known.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/s...lues-on-how-people-settled-the-americas.html?
According to the standstill hypothesis, the ancestors of Native Americans would have built up a large degree of genetic diversity in the thousands of years they were confined to Beringia — more so than if these populations had migrated directly from Siberia to the Americas.
The fact that two children who died at roughly the same time in the same community shared so few genes is consistent with the idea that the population was prevented from moving into the Americas for thousands of years, Dr. O’Rourke said.
But the two children died after the glaciers melted, he noted, and their settlement “may well be a remnant of that original Beringian group. It may give us a snapshot of that earlier time.”
Dr. Malhi, who was not involved in the new study, thought the new DNA was too recent to provide proof of the idea that humans were trapped in Beringia for thousands of years. “It’s valuable information, but it’s a little bit late to be extremely informative to let us know if the Beringian Standstill hypothesis holds,” he said.
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