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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I don't know what those are, but if you are basing data off of medieval history then there should be some indication of that somewhere within the reference lists. I see nothing.
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