[HN Gopher] Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Pl... ___________________________________________________________________ Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Plains and northern Rockies Author : BerislavLopac Score : 31 points Date : 2023-06-06 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (fermatslibrary.com) (TXT) w3m dump (fermatslibrary.com) | readthenotes1 wrote: | Impossible to read in dark mode... | | Question: did it really take 60 authors to write the article? | mmmrtl wrote: | You can see author contributions at the end. It took 5 to write | it, and everyone else to get the samples, perform experiments, | analyze data, etc. Pretty typical for genomics. | jjulius wrote: | >You can see author contributions at the end. | | GP could probably do well to take a cue from their own | username... | InitialLastName wrote: | No, it took 60 researchers (geneticists, archaeologists, | radiocarbon dating specialists) to collect and analyze the data | involved in drawing a fairly sweeping conclusion involving a | wide array of evidence from a large portion of the continent. | They all deserve credit for their contributions, even if they | didn't directly contribute in an authorial sense. | api_or_ipa wrote: | Would love to read this, but the website has no zoom buttons and | if I zoom in using my browser and click anywhere, that annoying | sidebar screws everything up. | | Can't find the doc on scihub. Anyone have a PDF they can share? | AlotOfReading wrote: | https://extension.usu.edu/freesnetwork/Tayloretal2023Earlydi... | | Will Taylor (lead author) is pretty nice guy from past | experience working with him. He would probably be happy to | provide drafts if you reach out to him privately. He uses his | twitter pretty frequently (@wtt_taylor) when he's not in the | field, and he has a rarely checked mastodon account | @archaeozoo@fediscience.org if you don't like twitter. Some of | his other papers are available on his academia.edu page. | joshe wrote: | TLDR version: horses broadly used in the American west (like New | Mexico) just 30 years after Spanish arrival (so 1520ish). Earlier | guess was that it was much later, 1700ish coming from the east to | west across North America. | | Good context from the author of 1491 here, including the | intricacies that required so much collaboration: | | https://twitter.com/CharlesCMann/status/1641537159973707777 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-06-06 23:00 UTC)