Johannes Boehm and Thomas Chaney tracked nearly half a million coins from AD 325–950.
What they found is astonishing: the fall of Mediterranean trade, the rise of the Islamic world, and the economic rebalancing of Europe - all mapped through money.
#MonetaryHistory #SilkRoads #TradeNetworks
What they found is astonishing: the fall of Mediterranean trade, the rise of the Islamic world, and the economic rebalancing of Europe - all mapped through money.
#MonetaryHistory #SilkRoads #TradeNetworks
May 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Johannes Boehm and Thomas Chaney tracked nearly half a million coins from AD 325–950.
What they found is astonishing: the fall of Mediterranean trade, the rise of the Islamic world, and the economic rebalancing of Europe - all mapped through money.
#MonetaryHistory #SilkRoads #TradeNetworks
What they found is astonishing: the fall of Mediterranean trade, the rise of the Islamic world, and the economic rebalancing of Europe - all mapped through money.
#MonetaryHistory #SilkRoads #TradeNetworks
6/🧵 105 Romanesque bindings (63% of the collection!) originally had sealskin chemises, though most have disappeared with only traces remaining.
Similar bindings in other "daughter houses" of Clairvaux across Europe.
Full paper in RSOS:
#medieval #manuscripts #biocodicology #tradeNetworks
Similar bindings in other "daughter houses" of Clairvaux across Europe.
Full paper in RSOS:
#medieval #manuscripts #biocodicology #tradeNetworks
Hiding in plain sight: the biomolecular identification of pinniped use in medieval manuscripts | Royal Society Open Science
The survival of medieval manuscripts in their original bindings remains a rare occurrence.
Taking advantage of the diversity of bindings in Cistercian libraries such as Clairvaux
and its daughter abbe...
royalsocietypublishing.org
April 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
6/🧵 105 Romanesque bindings (63% of the collection!) originally had sealskin chemises, though most have disappeared with only traces remaining.
Similar bindings in other "daughter houses" of Clairvaux across Europe.
Full paper in RSOS:
#medieval #manuscripts #biocodicology #tradeNetworks
Similar bindings in other "daughter houses" of Clairvaux across Europe.
Full paper in RSOS:
#medieval #manuscripts #biocodicology #tradeNetworks
Yellowfin tuna:
Caught in tropical waters.
Processed in Asia or Latin America.
Consumed in the the United States of America in canned form.
This is a planetary supply chain, no tariff, wall, or executive order can change that.
(3/6)
#FoodSecurity #TradeNetworks
Caught in tropical waters.
Processed in Asia or Latin America.
Consumed in the the United States of America in canned form.
This is a planetary supply chain, no tariff, wall, or executive order can change that.
(3/6)
#FoodSecurity #TradeNetworks
May 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Yellowfin tuna:
Caught in tropical waters.
Processed in Asia or Latin America.
Consumed in the the United States of America in canned form.
This is a planetary supply chain, no tariff, wall, or executive order can change that.
(3/6)
#FoodSecurity #TradeNetworks
Caught in tropical waters.
Processed in Asia or Latin America.
Consumed in the the United States of America in canned form.
This is a planetary supply chain, no tariff, wall, or executive order can change that.
(3/6)
#FoodSecurity #TradeNetworks
5/9 This system helped China lift more people from poverty than any nation in history. It created beneficial North American supply chains with Canada and Mexico. It fostered the trans-Atlantic alliances that maintained European peace since WWII.
#GlobalStability #TradeNetworks
#GlobalStability #TradeNetworks
April 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
5/9 This system helped China lift more people from poverty than any nation in history. It created beneficial North American supply chains with Canada and Mexico. It fostered the trans-Atlantic alliances that maintained European peace since WWII.
#GlobalStability #TradeNetworks
#GlobalStability #TradeNetworks
New finds from Kenya suggest that humans used long-distance #tradenetworks, sophisticated #tools, and #symbolic pigments right from the dawn of our species.
"An Older Origin for Complex Human Cultures" - by @edyong209 via @TheAtlantic
"An Older Origin for Complex Human Cultures" - by @edyong209 via @TheAtlantic
December 3, 2024 at 6:29 PM
New finds from Kenya suggest that humans used long-distance #tradenetworks, sophisticated #tools, and #symbolic pigments right from the dawn of our species.
"An Older Origin for Complex Human Cultures" - by @edyong209 via @TheAtlantic
"An Older Origin for Complex Human Cultures" - by @edyong209 via @TheAtlantic