Laura Spinney
@lfspinney
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Novelist, science journalist and author of PROTO: HOW ONE ANCIENT LANGUAGE WENT GLOBAL - out now!
Ile-de-France, France
Joined July 2012
Hallo liebe Leser von DER URKNALL UNSERER SPRACHE! Die deutschsprachige Ausgabe von PROTO ist für das Wissensbuch des Jahres in der Kategorie "Überblick" nominiert. Noch bis zum 14. August könnt ihr hier abstimmen:
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RT @LauraNMeyer: Come for the Springsteen poetry but keep reading to the end for shout out of @lfspinney "Proto: How One Ancient Language W….
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RT @JohnHMcWhorter: I never got Springsteen until I sat down and listened hard enough to understand that the essence of his work is poetry….
nytimes.com
I stopped listening to Bruce Springsteen’s music. I heard something more.
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Did language evolve to organise childcare?.
theguardian.com
It takes a village to raise a child – and that’s why we started speaking, argues an evolutionary biologist
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In prehistory, women ruled, fought, hunted and mediated with other worlds.
newscientist.com
Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no doubt that throughout prehistory women were rulers, warriors, hunters and shamans
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And armed with nothing but hand axes. No hard hats.
@DanDavisWrites The scale of operations at sites such as these are staggering. The search for metals really changed the world, fostering trade and triggering the emergence of polities —we see it everywhere, including western Anatolia and the Aegean.
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Love this. How to say 92 in different European languages. Note the outliers France and especially Denmark. With thanks to and reddit. #linguistics
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Uralic languages illuminated #ancientdna.
news.harvard.edu
Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west, study finds.
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RT @LauraNMeyer: Delighted to see PROTO by @lfspinney and SHATTERED LANDS by @SamDalrymple123 included here!.Prospect critics recommend boo….
prospectmagazine.co.uk
We asked staff members, contributors and critics to recommend books for taking on holiday this summer. Here are our critics’ choices
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RT @riccginevra: @lfspinney Thanks @lfspinney! Interesting experiment – maybe @iosif_lazaridis is interested in our comparative reconstruc….
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Can I just say, that @DannyBate4 knows his stuff.
New ALILI alert! 🚨. Episode 37 is a trip into prehistory, as @lfspinney, author of the super new book Proto, joins me to share her expertise and enthusiasm for the 'lost' language of Proto-Indo-European! Listen here:. Acast:Spotify:
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Go to the museum at Çorum - more than 180 kinds of bread or bakery product!.
Some texts mention breads made with hazelnuts, fruits, or fine white flour,” she explains. “We’ve been able to recreate similar flavors today, bringing the ancient Hittite kitchen back to life. - Dr. Valentina Orsi from Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations.
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.@riccginevra ?.
Yamnaya man, 3200BC speaking Proto-Indo-European. Do any linguists make sense of what he is supposed to be saying? Created with a mix of Indic and Lithuanian text to approximate PIE phonology.
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.@riccginevra @andrewmbyrd ??.
Yamnaya man, 3200BC speaking Proto-Indo-European. Do any linguists make sense of what he is supposed to be saying? Created with a mix of Indic and Lithuanian text to approximate PIE phonology.
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RT @JohnHMcWhorter: Last night on Colbert. All about PRONOUN TROUBLE (or mostly). via @YouTube.
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Coppola tried this to unearth new script-writing talent - see Zoetrope - all he got was regression to the mean. Should grant applicants judge competitors’ proposals? Unorthodox approach gets two real-world tests | Science | AAAS
science.org
Distributed peer review enlists more researchers in the process, but some may lack expertise
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