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Measuring Beyond the Standard: Informal Measurement Systems as Cognitive Technologies. [PDF]

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Abstract This paper explores the role of measurement as a cognitive technology across human history, emphasizing the coexistence of formal and informal measurement systems. While standardized systems dominate contemporary culture and are well documented across large‐scale societies of the past, this manuscript highlights the less explored domain of ...
Kaaronen RO, Manninen MA, Eronen JT.
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Recent progress in studies of the last million years of human physical and behavioural evolution Avancées récentes dans l’étude du dernier million d'années d’évolution physique et éthologique de l'espèce humaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole, Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mateja Hajdinjak, Chris Stringer   +3 more
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New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone‐built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more detailed excavation was undertaken in 2016 within one of the largest rectangular stone structures.
Khalid Alasmari, Stephanie F. Piper, Kirsten Grothe, W. Derek Hamilton, Delphine Joly, Penny Bickle, Geoff Bailey   +6 more
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The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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Image Databases for Pollen Grain Classification: Availability, Quality, and Challenges

WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2026.
Overview of the study process, from identifying gaps in pollen image databases to a systematic search across six libraries, resulting in 73 final studies, 18 datasets (10 public), and a seven‐point standardization framework proposed under FAIR principles.
Heloise Acco Tives Bedin, Simone de Ramos, André Roberto Ortoncelli, Paula Fernandes Montanher, Patricia A. Jaques   +4 more
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Challenging Patterns of Fine‐Scale Genetic Structure in Galicia and East‐to‐West Genetic Divergence Across the Iberian Peninsula—When Technical Batches Rewrite History

FASEB BioAdvances, Volume 8, Issue 7, July 2026.
Findings reported by Bycroft et al. [1] for the Iberian Peninsula, including ultra‐fine population structure in Galicia, East–West genetic differentiation, and North African ancestry associated with the ‘Reconquista’ period, may be influenced by technical artifacts and sampling limitations within the EPICOLON Phase I dataset.
Jacobo Pardo‐Seco, Alberto Gómez‐Carballa, Conrado Martínez‐Cadenas, Federico Martinón‐Torres, Antonio Salas   +4 more
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The Provenance of Silver in the Viking‐Age Hoard From Bedale, North Yorkshire

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S4, Page S86-S106, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The acquisition of silver was a key motive propelling the Viking expansion out of Scandinavia; identifying the sources of Viking silver during the early part of the Viking Age can provide critical insights into the relative significance of western European and eastern, Islamic wealth in the Viking expansion.
Jane Kershaw, Stephen Merkel, Andrew Woods, Jane Evans, Vanessa Pashley, Simon Chenery   +5 more
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The missing woodland story: Implications of 1700 years of stand‐scale change on ‘naturalness’ and managing remnant broadleaved woodlands

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1572-1587, June 2026.
Abstract Longer‐term perspectives—equivalent to the lifespans of long‐lived trees—are required to fully inform perceptions of ‘naturalness’ used in woodland conservation and management. Stand‐scale dynamics of an old growth temperate woodland are reconstructed using palaeoecological data.
Annabel Everard, J. Edward Schofield, Tim Mighall, Scott Timpany, Gill Plunkett   +4 more
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Assessing Mobility Among Inferred Elites Interred in Crypts 1–3 on Kom H at Tungul (Old Dongola), Sudan

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 409-420, June 2026.
ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark, Artur Obłuski, Robert Mahler   +2 more
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Homo luzonensis and the role of homoplasy in the morphology of hominin insular species

Cladistics, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 286-316, June 2026.
Abstract Homo luzonensis lived during the upper Pleistocene in the northern Philippines, east of the Wallace line. The few specimens attributed to this species show a mosaic of plesiomorphies for the genus Homo and apomorphies found in upper Pleistocene Homo species.
Pierre Gousset, Jérémie Bardin, Isabelle Rouget, Armand S. Mijares, Florent Détroit   +4 more
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