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Strange parallels: Southeast Asia in global context, C. 800-1830 volume 2 Mainland mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands
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The article was published on 2009-01-01. It has received 91 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: East Asia & Context (language use).read more
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War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex societies
TL;DR: A model that uses cultural evolution mechanisms to predict where and when the largest-scale complex societies should have arisen in human history supports theories that emphasize the role of institutions in state-building and suggests a possible explanation why a long history of statehood is positively correlated with political stability, institutional quality, and income per capita.
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The Capitalocene Part II: accumulation by appropriation and the centrality of unpaid work/energy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reconceptualized the past five centuries as the Capitalocene, the "age of capital", and argued that the exploitation of labor-power de...
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The Worlds of the Indian Ocean: A Global History
TL;DR: Beaujard as mentioned in this paper presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE, and shows how Asia and Africa dominated the economic and cultural landscape and the flow of ideas in the pre-modern world, leading to a trans-regional division of labor and an Afro-Eurasian world economy.
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Warfare and the Evolution of Social Complexity: A Multilevel-Selection Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply multilevel selection to a major transition in human social evolution, from small-scale egalitarian groups to large-scale hierarchical societies such as states and empires.
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Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe
TL;DR: Koslofsky as mentioned in this paper explores the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night using diaries, letters, and legal records together with representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art.
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Highly variable Northern Hemisphere temperatures reconstructed from low- and high-resolution proxy data
TL;DR: This reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere temperatures for the past 2,000 years is reconstructed by combining low-resolution proxies with tree-ring data, using a wavelet transform technique to achieve timescale-dependent processing of the data.
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Low-Frequency Signals in Long Tree-Ring Chronologies for Reconstructing Past Temperature Variability
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that carefully selected tree-ring chronologies from 14 sites in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) extratropics can preserve such coherent large-scale, multicentennial temperature trends if proper methods of analysis are used.
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Abrupt changes in the Asian southwest monsoon during the Holocene and their links to the North Atlantic Ocean.
TL;DR: A continuous record of centennial-scale monsoon variability throughout the Holocene from rapidly accumulating and minimally bioturbated sediments in the anoxic Arabian Sea is presented, suggesting that the link between North Atlantic climate and the Asian monsoon is a persistent aspect of global climate.
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A test of climate, sun, and culture relationships from an 1810-year Chinese cave record.
Pingzhong Zhang,Hai Cheng,R. Lawrence Edwards,Fahu Chen,Yongjin Wang,Xunlin Yang,Jian Liu,Ming Tan,Xianfeng Wang,Jinghua Liu,Chunlei An,Zhibo Dai,Jing Zhou,Dezhong Zhang,Jihong Jia,Liya Jin,Kathleen R. Johnson +16 more
TL;DR: The sign of the correlation between the AM and temperature switches around 1960 is suggested, suggesting that anthropogenic forcing superseded natural forcing as the major driver of AM changes in the late 20th century.
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The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality
Ara Norenzayan,Azim F. Shariff +1 more
TL;DR: Converging evidence from various fields for religious prosociality is synthesized, address its specific boundary conditions, and point to unresolved questions and novel predictions.