The rise and fall of the Roman Empire was a socio-political process with enormous
ramifications for human history. The Middle Danube was a crucial frontier and a crossroads …

Analyzes philologically and historically all testimony in the works of Gregory of Tours about
various epidemics that struck Gaul, Iberia, and Italy in the sixth century; in particular, those of …

Cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis are amongst of the most commonly
palaeopathological features recorded in archaeological individuals and are useful to test the …

In this article we use pollen data from six sites in southern Greece to study long-term
vegetation change in this region from 1000 BCE to 600 CE. Based on insights from …

This article uses a salient case study (flailing women in ninth-century Dijon) to make two
related arguments about the unusual nature of crowds in early medieval western Europe:(1) …

This study argues that the biological environment is properly a part of environmental history.
The microorganisms—bacteria, viruses, protozoa—that cause infectious disease were the …

Abstract The Roman Empire expanded through the Mediterranean shores and brought
human mobility and cosmopolitanism across this inland sea to an unprecedented scale …

R1394 Current Biology 30, R1391–R1412, December 7, 2020 ll development of an effective
anti-viral or vaccine in record time. Indeed, this is where reductionist modern medicine tends …

This book is an attempt to draw all of this material together into a coherent analysis
principally focussed on conflict and diplomacy between the Roman Empire and the …

What explains the origins and survival of the first states around 5000 years ago? In this
research, we focus on the role of weather-related productivity shocks for early state …