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From the Nature paper: "Here we use an archaeogenomic approach to identify an elite matriline that persisted between 800 and 1130 CE in Chaco Canyon, the centr
by mturmon 10y ago
From the Nature paper:
"Here we use an archaeogenomic approach to identify an elite matriline that persisted between 800 and 1130 CE in Chaco Canyon, the centre of an expansive prehistoric complex society in the Southwestern United States."
TRWTF is translating the original CE into A.D.
- cgriswald 10y agoJust as the choice to put AD before or after is a style issue, the choice to use AD or CE is essentially a style issue since the two systems are numerically equivalent. They probably feel that more of their readers prefer or understand AD than CE. (TRWTFs are the lack of a year zero and counting backwards sometimes and forwards other times.)