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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Por si todo esto no fuera poco, además de las necrópolis, los enterramientos o los ajuares/depósitos, se han documentado las primeras iglesias del territorio en San Martín de Finaga, en San Martín de Dulantzi y bajo la actual catedral de Santa María de Pamplona
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Where the Romans fought: 1,709 land and sea battles, from Romulus (753 BCE) to the fall of Theodoro (1475), in 44 of today’s countries. Rome won 916, drew 41, lost 512; 236 more were civil wars. Interactive map, full list, the Roman armies, sources: iosiflazaridis.github.io/bat…
Where did the ancient Greeks fight, whom did they fight, and who won? I mapped all 713 recorded land and sea battles of the Greek city-states and kingdoms, from c. 700 BCE to the last Greek kingdoms. In this thread: the places, the record of every state and the full list. 1/
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🏰¿Qué fue la Lucha de Bandos?⚔️ 📖En la EHU hemos publicado un libro divulgativo, pero riguroso, que sintetiza las últimas investigaciones sobre este conocido fenómeno vasco del final de la Edad Media. 📢 ¡Pronto más información sobre su presentación! web-argitalpena.adm.ehu.es/l…
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En la teoría de la vasconización tardía, algunos hallazgos arqueológicos realizados en Álava juegan un papel destacado ⬇️ elcorreo.com/alava/araba/cla…
"Prácticamente íbera" y no sirve para traducir íbero. "SS, Norte de Navarra..." Hay toponimia en Burgos y testimonio en la Rioja SXIII. "ahora le llaman euskera, le hemos llamado siempre vasco". "todo el mundo hablaba latín", pero mira por dónde en Aquitania se hablaba aquitano.
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An etymological diagram of words meaning 'God' in the Indo-European language family.
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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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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⬇️👇🏻⬇️ xitter.cf/_rojirin_/status/17182…
Estupenda no-noticia. La novedad es que en la Arqueología española se empieza a gastar dinero en estudios de ADN 🧬 Que haya africanos no es noticia, ni avance. Hace años estudié un posible egipcio de finales del s. IV en Priego con un Ankh como cruz de báculo.
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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
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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?
Iron Age Language Map of Western Eurasia in 200 BC
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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: asahi.co.jp/webnews/pages/ab…
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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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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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