Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history – podcast
03-05-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com

Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history – podcast

Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask. By Jacob Mikanowski Continue reading...
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