From Neolithic Naturalness to Tristes Tropiques

Humidity profile retrieval from SAPHIR on-board the Megha-Tropiques

The Megha-Tropiques (MT) satellite, a joint IndoFrench mission, was launched by ISRO’s PSLV-C18 on 12 October 2011 from Sriharikota, India. SAPHIR, a microwave humidity sounder on-board Megha Tropiques operates in six channels with frequencies around 183.31 GHz. A radiative transfer simulationbased operational algorithm has been developed to retrieve layer-averaged relative-humidity (LARH) for ...

Relative humidity profiling with Megha-tropiques

Naturalness (final)

In the wake of David Lewis’s seminal paper ‘New Work for a Theory of Universals’ (1983), a certain use of the word ‘natural’ has become widespread in metaphysics and beyond. In this usage, properties can be classified as more or less natural, with perfectly natural properties as a limiting case. For example, Lewis would claim that being negatively charged is much more natural than being either ...

From Mesolithic to Early Neolithic in the western Mediterranean JEAN GUILAINE & CLAIRE MANEN INTRODUCTION THE TRANSITION FROM the Mesolithic to the Early Neolithic in the western Mediterranean

THE TRANSITION FROM the Mesolithic to the Early Neolithic in the western Mediterranean is a stimulating subject for more than one reason. First, the region’s geographic position means that it is a case of ‘distant Neolithisation’ (between 2000–3500 km) from the presumed epicentre of Neolithisation in south-east Asia, around the Turko-Syrian border. Attempting to grasp the economic, social or sy...

Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans.

Farming and sedentism first appeared in southwestern Asia during the early Holocene and later spread to neighboring regions, including Europe, along multiple dispersal routes. Conspicuous uncertainties remain about the relative roles of migration, cultural diffusion, and admixture with local foragers in the early Neolithization of Europe. Here we present paleogenomic data for five Neolithic ind...