Language Apps and Digital Humanities at Modern Languages and Basque Studies, University of Deusto. Also helping https://xitter.cf/t.co/UQe1hio1zP
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⚡️ “Cartografía vasca” es.pinterest.com/kavango/car…
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During the reconquista, the southern parts of Iberia were largely repopulated by incoming Northern Iberians, which resulted in modern Southern Iberians having *less* North African ancestry and more IA Iberian ancestry than pre-Islamic Roman-era Southern Iberians
New insights into the population genomic history of the Iberian peninsula by Pablo Carrión! Turns out 80+% of Roman-period individuals in Spain carried ancestry from Eastern Mediterranean (particularly the Western Anatolian coast). sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Recordemos que las Guerras Cántabras (29-19 a. C.) fueron las campañas de Augusto contra cántabros y astures, constituyendo una de las últimas fases de la conquista romana de Hispania.
Y este campamento viene a aportar nuevas evidencias sobre aquellas operaciones militares.
ALT Infografía de las Guerras Cántabras c. 30 a.C. Compilación de Mercedes de la Calle e Ignacio González Atlas Nacional de España del IGN
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En la necrópolis de Aldaieta (Álava) se halló un anillo con escritura cúfica, además de dos enterramientos que presentan marcadores genéticos del noroeste de África
Lo contaba en este hilo⬇️👇🏻⬇️
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Few places have shaped Eurasian history as much as the ancient Near East. Agriculture and some of the world’s first civilizations were born there, and the region was home to ancient Greeks, Troy, and large swaths of the Roman Empire.
But one of the most powerful tools for unraveling the past, ancient DNA, has had little to say about this crucible of history and culture, in part because DNA degrades quickly in hot climates.
Research from 2022 presents DNA from more than 700 individuals who lived and died in the region over more than 10,000 years.
Taken together, the three studies survey the history of the Near East through a genetic lens, exploring the ancestry of the people who first domesticated plants and animals, settled down into villages, spread the precursors of modern languages, and peopled Homer’s epics.
Learn more: scim.ag/4nhDcd5 #ScienceMagArchives
ALT ‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages
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Domingo 18 de octubre, ruta guiada:
#Atauri - Mina Lucía y el poblado minero de Gustaldapa - San Ildefonso.
Inscripciones: 945 40 54 24
#MontañaAlavesa #ArabakoMendialdea
#PaisajesMineros
#Natouring
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The level of ethnic and linguistic change that occurred between the late Iron Age and 1000 AD is terrifying.
Many of the languages on this map are completely extinct.
What will it look like a thousand years from today?
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Descubren un gran palacio en lo alto de un monte de Borgoña donde una familia senatorial siguió viviendo “a la romana” a principios de la Edad Media share.google/xg4GU2bPUlrfSaZ…
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Una de las hipótesis de Ch. Wickham, localizar «islas de romanidad». ⬇️
Descubren un gran palacio en lo alto de un monte de Borgoña donde una familia senatorial siguió viviendo “a la romana” a principios de la Edad Media labrujulaverde.com/2026/10/d…
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Mandarin Chinese only has 416 distinct base syllables, and roughly 1,200 to 1,300 syllables when you include tone variations (see website for footnotes): pinyin.info/rules/initials_f…
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A fascinating discovery inside a late-Kamakura-period Buddhist statue:
During the restoration of the Jūichimen Kannon 十一面観世音菩薩 at Shōjuin 正寿院 in Ujitawara, Kyoto Prefecture, conservators found 95 sheets of paper within the image. 94 of which bore stamped images of Kannon and one containing a handwritten text in ink.
The statue, approximately 60 cm tall, is the temple’s principal image and is normally kept concealed as a hibutsu 秘仏 ("secret Buddha"). In announcing the discovery, the temple described the Kannon images' function to magically protect the written document.
The contents and date of the document have yet to be established. It will be fascinating to learn what it reveals about the statue’s history and the people who placed these materials inside it.
Images below, and a short Japanese news report here:
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#JEP2026 CONFERENCIA: «Patrimonio inmaterial, ¿patrimonio invisible?»
🗣️ Beatriz Gallego (@labrit_net)
🗓️ Jueves, 15 de octubre (19:00)
📍 Museo Bibat
🎟️ Acceso libre
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En 1560, el impresor real Francisco Hernández de Córdoba enviaba al Perú 1.582 libros del "Arte y vocabularios de la lengua general de los indios", de fr. Domingo de Sto. Tomás OP.
AGI,Indiferente
#Hispanidad 2026
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How megaliths spread along the Atlantic seaboard has long been debated: was it an idea that spread, or did people actually move and bring this technology with them?
A new preprint by @hmcccoll shows that neither explanation is exclusively right.
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Hallan en Turquía un oráculo romano de 56 respuestas que se consultaba lanzando huesos de oveja labrujulaverde.com/2026/10/h…
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Mañana empiezan las excavaciones arqueológicas en la Basílica de Begoña, con el proyecto 'Vecvnia'. ¿Qué aparecerá?
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Sapiens with Arrowheads in France 55,000 years ago came from The Levant by boat.
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e-Onomastics: Small #Names, Big #Heritage: What to Expect from the #GeoNames #Symposium 2026 in #Austria e-onomastics.blogspot.com/20… “The heritage #value of #microtoponyms”, opens in #Hermagor-Pressegger See, #Carinthia #toponymy #toponyms #toponymics
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"Bear" is probably a nickname 🐻 Half of Europe still uses the ancient name (oso, ours, orso, arkouda). The other half switched to nicknames like "the brown one" and "honey-eater". The old name survives in "Arctic".
🟨 Oso, urso, ours, orso, urs, arkouda: the ancient name
🟫 Bear, Bär, björn: probably "the brown one"
🍯 Medved: literally "honey-eater"
🧭 Arctic: from Greek arktos, "bear"
What's "bear" in your language? 👇
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Sobre el magisterio de Chris Wickham se escribirán decenas de páginas
En Salamanca tuvimos la suerte de celebrar en 2025 el vigésimo aniversario de su obra "Fragming" con este número monográfico de la revista "Stvdia Historica. Historia Medieval"
Disfruten: está en open access
