The variation of the activity of Xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes with latitude as a potential factor in determining the course of history by Shireesh Apte, Kyle Hoffman

“…A quantitative surrogate that confirms to this hypothesis is the pre-common-era direct correlation of the size of empire with latitude. …”
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Deciphering the West Eurasian Genetic Footprints in Ancient South India by Bhavna Ahlawat, Lomous Kumar, Parayil John Cherian, Jagmahender Singh Sehrawat, Niraj Rai, Kumarasamy Thangaraj

“…The results confirm that the Pattanam site could be an integral part of the lost ancient port of Muziris, which, as per the material evidence from Pattanam and its contemporary sites, played an important role in the transoceanic exchanges between 100 BCE (Before Common Era) and 300 CE (Common Era). So far, the material evidence with direct provenance to the maritime exchanges related to ancient cultures of the Mediterranean, West Asian, Red Sea, African, and Asian regions have been identified at Pattanam. …”
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Vietnam and India: A discourse on Buddhist contacts by Mishra, Patit Paban

“…Ching.Buddha images of Amaravati style pertaining to early centuries of Common Era have been found from Dong-duong near Danang in central Vietnam.An inscription of the same region describes the installation of a Buddha image in 875 C.E. and construction of a Buddhist temple and monastery by Indravarman II.In the present article, an attempt has been made to delineate Buddhist contacts between India and Vietnam.The article would contest the Indic centric view that there was total transplantation of Indian Buddhism.The theoretical premise would be that the whole process of Indian cultural influence was interaction between culture of India and Vietnam.It was the genius of Vietnamese, which choose those elements of an external culture that were either consistent with or could be moulded to its own beliefs.…”
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Archaeological Remains of Rajaduar Area in North Guwahati, Assam by Y.S. Sanathana, Manjil Hazarika

“…The famous archaeological site of Ambari in Guwahati has provided ample evidence for understanding the cultural growth of the area since the beginning of Common Era. Considering the archaeological and historical significance of Guwahati, a detailed documentation and in-depth study has been taken up by the authors in various areas of the city and this paper is an attempt to document the archaeological remains in the Rajaduar area in North Guwahati.…”
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Popularisation of Experimental Archaeology in the Activity of Harjis - Project under the Patronage of the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Lodz (PL) by Katarzyna Badowska, Wojciech Rutkowski

“…Our society aims to recreate dress, weaponry and the realities of the Przeworsk culture, that is, people living in the first centuries of Common Era in the territory of present-day Poland. In scientific activity, we are mainly dealing with experimental archaeology by performing experiments in the field of handicrafts such as blacksmithing, carpentry, leathercraft, weaving and pottery. …”
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Islamic guidelines for healthful living by Rahman, Mohammad Tariqur, Abdul Karim, Jesmin Banu

“…This paper highlights the scientific advancements in immunology and other fields that have given deeper insights into healthful living by advocating guidelines similar to the ones revealed to mankind in the 7th century of the common era (CE) in the Qur'an and Hadith. Discussions are made linking published scientific evidence and recent discoveries in the field of immunology and related sciences with the related Islamic guidelines on various aspects of life. …”
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Gnosticism from Thought to Religion by Hossein Shahbazi, Mohammad Reza Abedi

“…Although some of the components of Gnostic thought, such as the originality of knowledge and the exile of the soul, date back to the pre-Christ era, and especially to Plato, some other components, such as the distinction between the Christian and Jewish gods, belief in the multiplicity of the eternal Christ, the primacy of knowledge over faith, are products of the period of the formation of Gnostic sects and their conflict with the Church Fathers in the first centuries of the common era.…”
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Roman law in Spain prior to the Lex Wisigothorum by Kofanov, Leonid

“…Narrative and epigraphic evidences leave no doubt that already by the beginning of the Common Era the municipal law in Spain had effectively copied and assimilated all public and private Roman legal institutes. …”
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Timing of emergence of modern rates of sea-level rise by 1863 by Walker, Jennifer S., Kopp, Robert E., Little, Christopher M., Horton, Benjamin Peter

“…Regional and local sea-level changes occurring over different time periods drive the spatial pattern in emergence, suggesting regional processes underlie centennial-timescale sea-level variability over the Common Era.…”
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Pleasure and Fear: On the Uneasy Relation between Indic Buddhist Monasticism and Art by Henry Albery

“…When monastics of the Indic North and Northwest around the turn of the Common Era made the decision to introduce art into monasteries, current cultural assumptions regarding the aesthetic experience of such objects, which were axiomatically negated by Buddhist ideology, led to certain confrontations in law and praxis and an attempt to resolve these within certain monastic legal codes (<i>vinaya</i>) redacted during this period. …”
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Roman to Middle Age Earthquakes Sourced by the 1980 Irpinia Fault: Historical, Archaeoseismological, and Paleoseismological Hints by Paolo Galli

“…The Italian seismic compilations are among the most complete and back-in time extended worldwide, with earthquakes on record even before the Common Era. However, we have surely lost the memory of dozen strong events of the historical period, mostly in the first millennium CE. …”
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Kombucha: Biochemical and microbiological impacts on the chemical and flavor profile by Peyton Bishop, Eric R. Pitts, Drew Budner, Katherine A. Thompson-Witrick

“…Fermentation is one of the oldest preservation techniques used by mankind with known actions of fermentation dating back to several millennia before the common era. From this came the fermentation of tea beverages which we commonly call kombucha. …”
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THE PHONETICS OF THRACIAN TURKISH VERNACULAR LINGUISTIC VARIETY by Fatma Sibel BAYRAKTAR, Selda SANDALYECİ

“…The neighing sounds of Turks’ horses were heard not so long after the beginning of the common era in this meeting point of the Continental Europe and Minor Asia and the area became a "Turkish sovereign" with people coming from Anatolia and the North of the Black Sea. …”
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Xianbei Zoomorphic Plaques: Art, Migration, and Human-Environment Entanglement by Fan Zhang

“…This paper adopts an ecological perspective to investigate the visual and material remains associated with the Xianbei people, a nomadic group active in Northeast Asia from the turn of the common era to the early medieval period. Through the study of metal plaques bearing animal motifs and the environmental contexts of these artworks, I articulate the entangled relationship between humans, animals, and nature. …”
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The bhūtasaṃkhyā notation: numbers, culture, and language in Sanskrit mathematical literature by Petrocchi, A

“…<p>A method of expressing numbers by means of symbolic words arranged as in place value notation was developed in India in the early centuries of the Common Era. In the bhūtasaṃkhyā notation, the digits from 0 to 9 are denoted by certain significant words that connote a numerical association derived from many areas of Indian culture. …”

Aesthetic pleasure in the worship of the jina: Understanding performance in jain devotional culture by Restifo, A

“…This paper will argue that the performance of the enlightened soul’s biography was familiar to Jains already in the early centuries of the common era and was not confined to the five auspicious events (kalyāṇakas). …”

An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia. From Zoroaster to ʻUmar Khayyām / by Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, editor 266192, Aminrazavi, Mehdi, 1957-, editor 652142

“…Beginning with some of the texts of Zoroaster with philosophical import, the first part of this volume continues with selections from both Zoroastrian and Manichaean sources composed in the middle centuries of the first millennium of the Common Era. The second part deals with the early Islamic period and the fairly sudden flowering of Islamic philosophy much of which to this day has had its major locus of activity in Persia. …”

Presence, Power, and Agency: Donor Portraits in Early Gandharan Art by Elahi, Moizza S.

“…The appropriation of a transcultural and widely legible visual vocabulary for constructing these essentially Buddhist figures underscores the complex cross-cultural interactions and encounters underpinning Gandharan art and Buddhist practice in the early centuries of the Common Era. The paper argues that, in addition to relic establishment and donative inscriptions, the ruling aristocrats used donor portraits for the material and metaphorical embodiment of their presence and piety within the Buddhist monastic space. …”
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A Critical Examination of the Translation Philosophy of the Asante-Twi Bible by Yaw Worae, Jonathan E.T. Kuwornu-Adjaottor

“…Bible translation activities have been documented since the return of the Jewish people from the Babylonian captivity in the period of the 5th century BCE (Before the Common Era). In Ghana, the earliest translation of portions of Scripture was in Ga in 1805. …”
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The improbable but unexceptional occurrence of megadrought clustering in the American West during the Medieval Climate Anomaly by Sloan Coats, Jason E Smerdon, Kristopher B Karnauskas, Richard Seager

“…The five most severe and persistent droughts in the American West (AW) during the Common Era occurred during a 450 year period known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA—850–1299 C.E.). …”
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