Short and long daily sleep duration were risk factors for dementia and premature death in a study of Japanese adults aged 60 years and older. The findings are published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Continue reading “Optimal sleep linked to lower risks for dementia and early death”
Music and the brain: the neuroscience of music and musical appreciation
NovoScriptorium brings here to your attention a very interesting paper, under the corresponding title, by Michael Trimble and Dale Hesdorffer. We present the ‘Abstract‘ and a link for the actual publication. Continue reading “Music and the brain: the neuroscience of music and musical appreciation”
The Theopetra Cave in Thessaly: a 130,000 year old prehistory (Part 3)
To date, the biggest and the most complete research programme of the Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology (EPSSG) is that of the Theopetra cave. The facts presented in the 1st and 2nd part of the special issue reveal the reasons for which the cave became an object for enhancement through community programmes of the 3rdCommunity Support Framework (CSF). Continue reading “The Theopetra Cave in Thessaly: a 130,000 year old prehistory (Part 3)”
«The Greeks: Whence and when?» – Mainstream Scientific responses and present state of Research (Awarded book by the Academy of Athens)
Here we present the ‘Preface‘, from the extensive English Summary, of the awarded (2013) by the ‘Academy of Athens’ book “«The Greeks: Whence and when?». The mainstream Scientific responses and the present state of Research on the first beginning of the Greek civilisation”, by Theodoros G. Giannopoulos, Crete University Press, 2012. Continue reading “«The Greeks: Whence and when?» – Mainstream Scientific responses and present state of Research (Awarded book by the Academy of Athens)”
The Theopetra Cave in Thessaly: a 130,000 year old prehistory (Part 2)
Particularly important information also results from the archaeobotanical remains and the radiocarbon study. Continue reading “The Theopetra Cave in Thessaly: a 130,000 year old prehistory (Part 2)”
The Theopetra Cave in Thessaly: a 130,000 year old prehistory (Part 1)
In March 1990, by a happy coincidence, the results of the first three excavation seasons of the Theopetra Cave were published for the first time in the journal Archaiologia in the special issue no 34 on the (then) recent surveys in Thessaly. Rereading that text today, I saw how many things have changed since then but also how many others had been correctly evaluated from the start and are still valid today although perhaps more documented. Specialized studies and analyses in the intervening period, confirmed this excavation’s importance for Greece’s prehistory. Today, twenty-five years later, in the same journal’s present electronic form, the results are briefly given of an on going survey of 27 years… Continue reading “The Theopetra Cave in Thessaly: a 130,000 year old prehistory (Part 1)”
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