"Despite lager’s European origins, S. eubayanus hadn’t actually been found there and was only first discovered in 2011, in the Patagonia region of South America. Now, thanks to a research project carried out by undergraduate students, S. eubayanus has been found living in European soil — fittingly, in the beer-loving nation of Ireland." https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brewing-yeast-ancestor-ireland-beer

"Over the last 150 years or so, Kazakh has been written in Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic, each prevailing at different points in the language’s history. The writing systems used to record the languages have changed about as many times as have the hands ruling over their speakers." https://daily.jstor.org/alpha-bravo-cyrillic/

"The way some people ridicule hitch makes me wonder what they think about the folks who eat them," lamented Robert Geary, cultural resources director for the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-sacred-minnow-nears-extinction-native.html

"Scientists developed two possibilities for what the Banyoles mandible may represent: a member of a previously unknown population of Homo sapiens that coexisted with the Neandertals; or a hybrid between a member of this Homo sapiens group and a non-Neandertal unidentified human species." https://phys.org/news/2022-12-jawbone-earliest-presence-humans-europe.html

"Highland pastoralists living in present-day Uzbekistan in Central Asia produced and supplied roughly one-third of the tin found aboard the ship—tin that was en route to markets around the Mediterranean to be made into coveted bronze metal." https://phys.org/news/2022-11-year-old-uluburun-shipwreck-reveal-complex.html

"Most of them left Kauai, and even Hawaii altogether, by early July 1906." https://theconversation.com/white-landowners-in-hawaii-imported-russian-workers-in-the-early-1900s-to-dilute-the-labor-power-of-asians-in-the-islands-192387

"These results raise the possibility that wolf domestication occurred earlier than proposed until now, at least in western Europe, where the interaction of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers with wild species, such as the wolf, may have been boosted in areas of glacial refuge." https://phys.org/news/2022-11-europe-ancient-domestic-dogs-basque.html

"Food history is replete with honored legends, creative stories, slightly twisted truths, unsupported claims, leaps of faith, and outright lies." https://daily.jstor.org/the-fakelore-of-food-origins/

"So what we're seeing - through the footprints - is a landscape transforming with sea-level rise, and also with the arrival of agriculture that probably put a lot more pressure on this ecosystem." https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63036911

"He also found that many of the bracelets had been made from an inferior-quality metal, to 'buy' humans as cheaply as possible." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/slavery-traders-tried-to-cheat-africans-with-impure-cornish-copper-says-study