AI-accelerated Nazca survey nearly doubles the number of known figurative geoglyphs and sheds light on their purpose. [PDF]
Sakai M +6 more
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AI methods for enhancing and recognizing archaeological features in heterogeneous geophysical datasets. [PDF]
Danese M +7 more
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ABSTRACT According to anthropological theories of brokerage, brokers build bridges, close gaps, make connections, and construct shared norms. In this article, I argue that such structural‐functionalist approaches to brokerage do not prove adequate in addressing unsettled and unsettling scale‐making practices of refugee‐led support initiatives in ...
Lieke van der Veer
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Exploring the Early Neolithic in the Arabian Gulf: A newly discovered 8,400-year-old stone-built architecture on Ghagha Island, United Arab Emirates. [PDF]
Lidour K +4 more
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Little Flanders Beyond Wales : a landscape archaeological research on Flemish settlement landscapes in the British Isles [PDF]
Verbrugghe, Gerben
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Pre-roman copper industry had no polluting impact on the global environment. [PDF]
Yagel O +3 more
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Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya
ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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Advancing Archaeobotanical Methods: Morphometry, Bayesian Analysis and AMS Dating of Rose Prickles from Monteagudo Almunia, Spain (12th Century-Present). [PDF]
Rivera D +5 more
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Do Energetic Challenges Mimicking Missed Foraging Encourage Torpor Use by a Neotropical Bat?
We experimentally tested whether Merriam's long‐tongued bat (Glossophaga mutica), a Neotropical nectarivorous species, uses heterothermy in response to reduced energy intake. We found that energetically challenged bats maintained subcutaneous temperatures significantly closer to roost temperature during the daytime inactive period.
Zenon J. Czenze +2 more
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