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Friday, January 09, 2009

Is it necessary to assume an apartheid-like social structure in Early Anglo-Saxon England?

5 Nov 2008 It has recently been argued that there was an apartheid-like social structure operating in Early Anglo-Saxon England. This was proposed in order to explain the relatively high degree of similarity between Germanic-speaking areas of northwest Europe ... Read more...

Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution.

5 Nov 2008 The observed diversity of dinosaurs reached its highest peak during the mid- and Late Cretaceous, the 50 Myr that preceded their extinction, and yet this explosion of dinosaur diversity may be explained largely by sampling bias. It has long been ... Read more...

The age and origin of the Pacific islands: a geological overview.

25 Oct 2008 The Pacific Ocean evolved from the Panthalassic Ocean that was first formed ca 750 Ma with the rifting apart of Rodinia. By 160 Ma, the first ocean floor ascribed to the current Pacific plate was produced to the west of a spreading centre in the ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'History, Ancient'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Is it necessary to assume an apartheid-like social structure in Early Anglo-Saxon England? 5 Nov 2008
• Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution. 5 Nov 2008
• In brief. Historical indications for the surgical treatment of tuberculosis. 30 Oct 2008
• The age and origin of the Pacific islands: a geological overview. 25 Oct 2008
• Systems biology: Metabonomics. 21 Oct 2008
• A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers. 21 Oct 2008
• Third International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology. Trail of mare's milk leads to first tamed horses. 15 Oct 2008
• The development of CPR. 15 Oct 2008
• Why Earth became so hot 50 million years ago and why it then cooled. 13 Oct 2008
• Climate change: when did the icehouse cometh? 30 Sep 2008
• Thresholds for Cenozoic bipolar glaciation. 30 Sep 2008
• Relationships between lower limb cross-sectional geometry and mobility: the case of a Neolithic sample from Italy. 29 Sep 2008
• The peopling of America: craniofacial shape variation on a continental scale and its interpretation from an interdisciplinary view. 29 Sep 2008
• Variation in limb proportions between Jomon foragers and Yayoi agriculturalists from prehistoric Japan. 29 Sep 2008
• In brief. Pulmonary tuberculosis. 29 Sep 2008
• Cover illustration. Abu Bakr Razi. 29 Sep 2008
• Equatorial convergence of India and early Cenozoic climate trends. 20 Sep 2008
• Neanderthal exploitation of marine mammals in Gibraltar. 20 Sep 2008
• Melancholy, medicine, and the arts. 11 Sep 2008
• Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks. 9 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'History, Ancient'

Definition: The period of history before 500 of the common era.

Descriptor UI: D049690

Alternative terms: History, Ancient; Ancient History; History of Medicine, Ancient; Ancient History of Medicine; Medicine Ancient History; Medicine, Ancient History; Ancient History Medicine; Ancient History Medicines; History Medicine, Ancient; History Medicines, Ancient; Medicines, Ancient History; Ancient History (Medicine); Ancient Histories (Medicine); Histories, Ancient (Medicine); History, Ancient (Medicine);

Tree Number: K01.400.470;

History Note: 2005

Technical Notes: before 500 AD; IM general only; NIM as check tag; note ANCIENT LANDS in Category Z