You know what’s worse than not citing historians? Is citing historians and not actually considering what they wrote, and having a lack of engagement with the wider discourse. It means that you looked, stopped when you found what you thought you needed, and didn’t go further.
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So their map: premise is regarding the early Church contact with the world and the impact on kin structures. Okay so not only is the premise here that the early medieval Church was a Western European thing, it ignores the origins and impact of Christianity in the following places
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Ethiopia being the biggest one, but in general it oversimplifies the Church in N Africa and the Middle East quite significantly.
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Also re: data sets. They are comparing modern evidence (presumably of regular people but I have no idea) with the aforementioned spotty kinship data of the medieval period and just mashing it all up together and presenting that as a model.
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Did no one see the problems inherent in that?
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Also if someone could point out their primary sources/data sets to me in this, I would love that. Because I cannot for the love of me find them in the paper. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/eaau5141 …
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I can't even view the dataset but given what I know about demographic data of the period, it cannot be an accurate sample set.
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In that I cannot view the data. I have the files etc. Basically I want to know where they got the data from. What sources? When? Very important.
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