EcoPast (GI-1553), Facultade de Bioloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Spain; Archaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm University, Wallenberglaboratoriet, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden; Laboratorio de Antropología Física, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Granada, Granada 18012, Spain. Electronic address: olalla.lopez@usc.es.
Department of Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227, Taiwan; The iEGG and Animal Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227, Taiwan; Smart Sustainable New Agriculture Research Center (SMARTer), Taichung, 40227, Taiwan. Electronic address: ttlee@dragon.nchu.edu.tw.
Water Resources and Environmental Geology Research Group, Department of Biology and Geology, University of Almería, Crta. Sacramento s/n, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120, Almería, Spain. f.gazquez@ual.es.
Andalusian Centre for the Monitoring and Assessment of Global Change (CAESCG), University of Almería, Crta. Sacramento s/n, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120, Almería, Spain. f.gazquez@ual.es.
Centre de Recherche en Géochimie Et Géodynamique (GÉOTOP-UQAM)-McGill University, 201 ave. du Président-Kennedy 7e étage, local PK-7150, Montréal, QC, H2X 3Y7, Canada.
Water Resources and Environmental Geology Research Group, Department of Biology and Geology, University of Almería, Crta. Sacramento s/n, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120, Almería, Spain.
Andalusian Centre for the Monitoring and Assessment of Global Change (CAESCG), University of Almería, Crta. Sacramento s/n, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120, Almería, Spain.
CNRS, Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité, ArScAn, UMR7041, Équipe Archéologie de la Gaule et du Monde Antique (GAMA), MSH Mondes, 21 allée de l'université, 92023, Nanterre cedex, France.
Romanisation is a multi-faceted historical phenomenon with profound and lasting cultural impact on the ancient world. In the modern-day territory of Tunisia, this is particularly manifest during the f...
Elites played a pivotal role in the formation of post-Roman Europe on both macro- and microlevels during the Early Medieval period. History and archaeology have long focused on their description and i...
The possibility that Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) is a modern disease arises from the minimal mention of advanced cognitive decline by ancient Greeks and Romans, who were mainly co...
Because standard medical histories of elderly health lacked mention of cognitive decline, we examined texts by Greek and Roman authors that mentioned memory loss and dementia....
Primary texts of Greco-Roman authors, 8th century BCE into the 3rd century CE, that mentioned cognitive decline were identified and critically evaluated. Secondary sources were excluded....
No ancient account of cognitive loss is equivalent to modern clinical data. The term dementia was occasionally used in antiquity, but not invariably linked to old age. Ancient Greeks and Romans expect...
The modern 'epidemic level' of advanced dementias was not described among ancient Greco-Roman elderly. The possible emergence of advanced ADRD in the Roman era may be associated with environmental fac...
The first objective of this paper is to reconstruct the production technology of fourth-first centuries BCE coarse ware from surveys near the ancient town of...
In the second century CE the Roman Empire had increasing contact with Sarmatians, nomadic Iranian speakers occupying an area stretching from the Pontic-Caspian steppe to the Carpathian mountains, both...
Skeletal populations from Byblos, Beirut, and Tyre were studied to assess mechanical stress along the Roman Phoenician coast....
The sample included 153 adult skeletons....
Skeletal remains were macroscopically assessed for osteoarthritis, intervertebral disc disease (IDD), and Schmorl's nodes....
The Byblos population experienced higher levels of mechanical stress than the Beirut and Tyre ones. Sex-based differences were also found in all skeletal assemblages with males likely engaging in phys...
The variation in mechanical stress, and associated physically demanding tasks, between these populations can be attributed to their differing political and economic status during the Roman period; tex...
This study represents one of the first attempts to investigate mechanical stress in coastal Phoenicia during the Roman period. It provides valuable insights into the biocultural structure of understud...
The contextual information for these skeletal populations is very limited and does not allow secure conclusions regarding their representativeness. The sample sizes are also rather small, especially w...
Further investigation employing complementary methods such as cross-sectional geometric properties and entheseal changes is needed to reconstruct the occupational patterns of these communities, taking...
Archaeobotanical analyses in Italy are uneven in terms of geographical and chronological distribution. Amongst the different regions, Abruzzi is poorly represented, with only one study covering the Ro...
Ancient glass objects typically show distinctive effects of deterioration as a result of environmentally induced physicochemical transformations of their surface over time. Iridescence is one of the d...
Since 1988, through the United States government's founding, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has provided an invaluable service to scientific advancement. The universality and...
Carbonate deposits formed in Roman aqueducts provide a window onto the environment and water management in antiquity. These laminated archives precipitated over a period of decades to centuries and ar...
