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‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
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Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Groucutt HS, Stewart M, Al-Jibreen F, Al-Qahtani M, Al-Shanti M, Andrieux E, Blinkhorn J, Boivin N, Breeze PS, Drake N, Memesh A, Mufarreh Y, Price G, Scerri EML, Vanwezer N, Vonhof H, Zalmout I, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia MD.   +18 more
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The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya Affinités morphologiques du crâne fossile de Kabua (Kenya)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of the origins of Homo sapiens is limited, in part, by the fragmented fossil record from Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Africa. Here, we re‐examine the Kabua 1 cranium, an enigmatic and little‐studied Kenyan fossil discovered in the 1950s. We compare virtual reconstructions created previously by our team with a wide range
Abel Marinus Bosman, Laura Tabitha Buck, Hugo Reyes‐Centeno, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Chris Stringer, Rainer Grün, Qingfeng Shao, Katerina Harvati   +7 more
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Genomic history of early dogs in Europe. [PDF]

Nature
Bergström A, Furtwängler A, Johnston S, Rosengren E, Breidenstein A, Booth T, McCabe JB, Peto J, Williams M, Kelly M, Tait F, Baumann C, Radzeviciute R, Barrington C, Anastasiadou K, Gilardet A, Glocke I, Sherman M, Brativnyk A, Herbig A, Prüfer K, Pfrengle S, Gretzinger J, Feuerborn TR, Reiter E, Linderholm A, Charlton S, Racimo F, Mikkola L, Anderson-Whymark H, Baird D, Gotfredsen AB, Bocherens H, Bridault A, Brocke R, Drucker DG, Fairbairn AS, Frantz L, Gasparyan B, Giemsch L, Germonpré M, Janssens L, Kandel AW, Kjær K, Lázničková-Galetová M, Loponte D, Magnell O, Martin L, Münzel SC, Mustafaoğlu G, Måge B, Perri A, Pfenninger F, Roblíčková M, Roman-Binois A, Sarıtaş Ö, Schäppi K, Sheridan JA, Sjögren KG, Storå J, Sørensen LV, Tafelmaier Y, Ter-Nedden F, Thalmann O, Larson G, Schuenemann VJ, Krause J, Skoglund P.   +67 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece Le rôle du Bassin méditerranéen oriental dans l’évolution humaine : résultats récents en Grèce

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
wiley   +1 more source

Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic. [PDF]

Nature
Marsh WA, Scarsbrook L, Yüncü E, Hodgson L, Lin AT, De Iorio M, Thalmann O, Thomas MG, Goor M, Bergström A, Noseda A, Amiri S, Biglari F, Borić D, Bougiouri K, Carmagnini A, Giannì M, Higham T, Lebrasseur O, Linderholm A, Mannino MA, Middleton C, Mustafaoğlu G, Perri A, Peters J, Richards M, Sarıtaş Ö, Skoglund P, Stevens RE, Stringer C, Tabbada K, Talbot HM, Van der Sluis LG, Bello SM, Dimitrijevic V, Martin L, Mashkour M, Parfitt SA, Vukovic S, Brace S, Craig OE, Baird D, Charlton S, Larson G, Barnes I, Frantz LAF.   +45 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Global tastes, local choices: Strontium isotope and concentration evidence for changing dietary input in Roman Nijmegen, the Netherlands. [PDF]

PLoS One
De Coster M, Hendriks J, James HF, Snoeck C, Davies GR, Kootker LM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source