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Terrestrial Analogs to Titan for Geophysical Research

open access: yesReviews of Geophysics, Volume 64, Issue 2, June 2026.
Abstract Saturn's moon Titan exhibits remarkable parallels to the Earth in many geophysical and geological processes not found elsewhere in the solar system at the present day. These include a nitrogen atmosphere with a condensible gas—methane—replacing the Earth's water, leading to an active meteorology with rainfall and surface manifestations ...
Conor A. Nixon   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Doctoring Dobbs: Erasure art as anthropological practice

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract This essay examines erasure art as an anthropological practice through Doctoring Dobbs, a multimodal project responding to the US Supreme Court's overturning of federal abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. In creative practice, erasure removes material from an existing source to reveal something new.
Risa Cromer
wiley   +1 more source

“Flames Over Persepolis”: New Scientific Evidence Supporting Historical Perspectives

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 421-433, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the burning of Persepolis Terrace, historically attributed to Alexander III in 330 bce. A review of classical accounts and excavation reports, combined with diagnostic surveys, confirms the fire's historicity and provides novel insights.
Maria Letizia Amadori   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medicine for the Material World

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 434-439, June 2026.
ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient Iran

open access: yes, 1967
info:eu-repo/semantics ...
openaire   +1 more source

Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
wiley   +1 more source

From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 378-443, June 2026.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

A Mock Battle in Ancient Iran

open access: yesBulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, 1970
There are about 11 days between the solar year and the lunar year, and about 5 days between the solar year and the 360-day year. Later calendars of various areas of the world have remainders of the 5th day, the 10th or the 13th day New Years, while some nations have remainders of the archaic New Years of the 8th or the 13th day of the 12th month ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Distal Marine Mercury Signals in Peak Late Paleozoic Ice Age: Implications for Aeolian Versus Volcanic Inputs

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 10, 28 May 2026.
Abstract An investigation of the relationships among large igneous province (LIP), carbon cycling, and climate change is central to understanding Earth system. During Glacial III, the most intense phase of Late Paleozoic Ice Age, the influence of coeval LIP on the carbon cycle and climate remains debated.
Yuzhu Ge   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information retrieval or document retrieval? Terminological confusions and unrealistic goals in information science, exemplified in relation to generative artificial intelligence

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 5, Page 714-726, May 2026.
Abstract ChatGPT and related technologies have revived an old issue in information science (IS) concerning information retrieval (IR) versus document retrieval. Since 1950, the term IR has primarily been used as a misnomer for document retrieval. This problematic terminology reflects a desire to go beyond documents and provide, in response to user ...
Birger Hjørland
wiley   +1 more source

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