Alexander M. Kim
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PhD candidate @harvard (Dept. of Anthropology: Archaeology) · human #aDNA & archaeogenetics (Dept. of Genetics @harvardmed) · Northern Eurasia
Boston, MA
Joined March 2014
Our paper on the genomic formation of Uralic and Yeniseian peoples is now out. Congratulations to everyone involved!.
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In memoriam:.
I've just heard the terrible news that my friend - and friend of many here - Andrew West, @BabelStone, the incomparably brilliant Sinologist and Tangutologist - passed away suddenly but peacefully on 10th July. Andrew had a heart of the most immense kindness and generosity, and.
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With their rammed earth remnants perforated by decayed rafters, the (newly UNESCO-listed) Tangut royal mausolea have reminded me for a while of the opaline silica skeletons of many radiolarians, like these fossils from the Ceno-Tethys of southern Tibet.
🔴 BREAKING!. New inscription on the @UNESCO #WorldHeritage List: Xixia Imperial Tombs, #China 🇨🇳. ➡️ #47WHC
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With vocals (incl. transliteration & English subtitles), courtesy of the Aga Khan Music Programme:.
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“I dedicate this küü to the honor of the great Attila Khan.” — Kyrgyz composer Nurak Abdrakhmanov. “Attila Khan”, performed by komuzchu Adinai Kudabaeva (Ustatshakirt Plus ensemble & Seán Curran: 2015)
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Offerings at the border of Tuva and Krasnoyarsk Krai. 2018.
Not even at major archaeological sites, but places like below. You'll be driving past, and there will always be crowds of people circling the structure, leaving coins, sprinkling vodka, for luck. Haven't seen anything like this in other parts of country (though I'm sure it
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“… in the 1920s almost all the hackney-cab drivers in Nouméa were New Caledonian Arabs” (or Kabyles)
"40% of truck drivers in California are Sikh, 95% of the Dunkin’ Donuts stores in Chicago are owned by Indians. In New York, 60% of Dunkin’ Donuts stores are operated by Portuguese immigrants. 90% of the liquor stores in Baltimore are owned by Koreans"
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That’s the one on the Upper West Side; here’s the sister museum on Kommunisticheskaya in Novosibirsk, with a graffito on a related ad in a metro station: “occultism, dangerous!!!”. My photos, 2019.
Nicholas Roerich Museum. Theosophist, painter, and archaeologist. The Roerich Pact was agreed to in 1935 by FDR and other members of the Pan-American Union for cultural preservation.
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I wonder how tetrodotoxin-tolerant these morays are and how much discernment they exercise amongst individuals or tissues. A recent study of Gymnothorax kidako predation on Takifugu alboplumbeus during their summer mass-spawning in Kanagawa and Chiba Prefectures suggested a.
愛知県の帰りは伊豆に寄って、しつこくクサフグの撮影。. ここは昨年水中カメラマンの方に教えていただいたのですが、フグの産卵場にウツボが現れる場所です。. 今回はクサフグが多くはなかったのですが、産卵場が狭まったことで、ウツボが集中して出てくれました。
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“Don’t do that.”. In the compound kizhi-ang, the first element is inherited Turkic (from Proto-Common Turkic *kiši ‘human, person/people’) and the second is what Clauson 1972:166 regards as proximately a loan into Northeastern Turkic from Mongolic, where /aŋ/ denotes ‘wild
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Kotšijâdør, a Selkup shaman photographed by Kai Donner in 1912 on the Tym River (a right tributary of the Middle Obʹ). From the Picture Collections of the Finnish Heritage Agency (VKK532:2245; SUK205:1), mildly edited for tone and clarity.
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A pale track in the steppe. Khakassia, north of Ustʹ-Abakan, near the left bank of the Yenisei. My photo, 2018.
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Interesting study suggesting a previously unknown linguistic stock (a possible language isolate)—without obvious affinity to Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan), Kra-Dai, Hmong-Mien, or Austroasiatic—in one of the two recently extinct languages of the Luren of Guizhou (the other
Excited that the first study on the #languages of the Luren in Southwest China has been published in "Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale". We show that the Luren (now classified as #Manchu) formerly spoke two different languages, one #Sinitic and the other an isolate. (1/5)
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More recently there arose an academic debate about the place of “assent” in Greek animal sacrifice. This close analogue from the Hindu Kush appears to so far not have been deployed within it.
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But he must shake himself wholly: George Scott Robertson (1896) on a prerequisite of ritual animal sacrifice among the ‘Káfirs’ (now Nuristanis) prior to their mass Islamization with remarkably exact ancient Greek correspondences and, reportedly, a contemporaneous Indian parallel
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On the lost Nivkh cosmopolitanism of late 19th c. northern Sakhalin:
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Mimetic symmetry breaking and pari toggling: accounts by Yukaghir and Chitrali hunters
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