“A people that has forgotten its past has lost its soul. It may still possess wealth, numbers, and power, but it no longer possesses direction. Such a people can be governed, manipulated, and eventually destroyed, because it no longer knows what it is.”
— Hilaire Belloc, On Historical Memory
#NewPublication
Venice and the Mongols: The Eurasian Exchange That Transformed the Medieval World
Nicola Di Cosmo and Lorenzo Pubblici , Princeton Univ Pr 2026
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“Modern East Asian cattle appear to descend from West Eurasian domesticated cattle, with subsequent admixture with East Asian aurochs and later East Asian and European taurine lineages. These data illuminate the finer population dynamics that contributed to modern East Asian cattle.
These results point to the Eurasian Steppe and Central Asia as key corridors in the early dispersal of cattle into East Asia, highlighting these regions as priorities for future archaeogenomic research”