Search results for thirteenth century

Earth Sciences Mar 25, 2022

Rapid glacial advance reconstructed during the time of Norse occupation in Greenland

Rapid glacial advance reconstructed during the time of Norse occupation in Greenland

Archaeology Apr 7, 2021

800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices

A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology, have found the first evidence of a religious diet locked inside pottery fragments excavated from the early medieval Jewish ...

Environment Mar 24, 2021

Toward a better understanding of societal responses to climate change

As the signs of today's human-caused climate change become ever more alarming, research into the ways past societies responded to natural climate changes is growing increasingly urgent. Scholars have often argued that climatic ...

Archaeology Apr 10, 2020

Brown hares and chickens were treated as 'gods,' not food when they arrived in Britain, research shows

Archaeological evidence shows that the first brown hares and chickens to arrive in Britain were buried with care and intact. There is no signs of butchery on bones examined and the ongoing research suggests the two animals ...

Social Sciences Aug 30, 2019

Lost Irish words rediscovered, including the word for 'oozes pus'

Researchers from Cambridge and Queen's University Belfast have identified and defined 500 Irish words, many of which had been lost, and unlocked the secrets of many other misunderstood terms. Their findings can now be freely ...

Consumer & Gadgets Aug 23, 2017

Myanmar's startups map past, shape future with virtual reality

Gasps echo across the hall as the Myanmar school kids trial virtual reality goggles, marveling at a device that allows some of Asia's poorest people to walk on the moon or dive beneath the waves.

Archaeology Sep 22, 2016

Head wound suggests ancient Aborigine was killed by a boomerang

(Phys.org)—A team led by Michael Westaway, an anthropologist with Australia's Griffith University, has found evidence that suggests a skeleton found protruding from an Australian riverbank two years ago is the remains of ...

Ecology Jul 20, 2016

Medieval water power initiated the collapse of salmon stocks

Salmon largely disappeared from the Netherlands due to the construction of water mills, ecologists from Radboud University conclude (Scientific Reports, 20 July). The construction of water mills caused the destruction of ...

Archaeology Oct 22, 2015

The earliest known abecedary

A flake of limestone (ostracon) inscribed with an ancient Egyptian word list of the fifteenth century BC turns out to be the world's oldest known abecedary. The words have been arranged according to their initial sounds, ...

Earth Sciences Jun 4, 2015

10,000 years of rabbit bones hint how climate change may hit mammals

At times during the past 10,000 years, cottontails and hares reproduced like rabbits and their numbers surged when the El Niño weather pattern drenched the Pacific Coast with rain, according to a University of Utah analysis ...

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