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Archaeology of Atafu, Tokelau: Some initial results from 2008 [PDF]

, 2009
Surface survey, shovel testing, and stratigraphic excavations were done on Atafu Atoll in Tokelau during August 2008. Initial results suggest that Fale Islet has the most potential for further archaeological research.
Addison, David J., Bass, Bryon, Christensen, Carl, Kalolo, John, Lundblad, Steve, Mills, Peter, Petchey, Fiona, Thompson, Adam   +7 more
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Society of Archaeological Masters Students Annual Conference V

Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 2017
The Society of Archaeological Masters Students Conference is an opportunity for UCL Institute of Archaeology masters students to present their research.
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Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris, Matei Candea, Thyge Enggaard, Terne Sasha Thorn Jakobsen, Morten Axel Pedersen   +4 more
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Guesting: rethinking the relationship between hospitality and homemaking within temporary refugee accommodation Le concept de guesting: repenser la relation entre hospitalité et création d'un « chez‐soi » dans l'hébergement temporaire des personnes réfugiées

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This paper introduces the emic concept of guesting, coined by women living in refugee accommodation to distinguish their form of hospitality from other more hierarchical forms of hosting. Central to guesting is the unspoken rule that once you have played the host, next time you must be the guest.
Charlot Schneider
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Household Archaeology and Reconstructing Social Organization in Ancient Complex Societies: A Consideration of Models and Concepts Based on Study of the Prehispanic Maya

, 2001
Studies of the settlement pattern in the Copan Valley, Honduras, indicate that a House society model provides the best way to understand the social organization of the Late Classic period Maya. The House society model, based on Levi-Strauss\u27s original
Hendon, Julia A.
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ALCOA #1 (41AN87): A Frankston Phase Settlement along Mound Prairie Creek, Anderson County, Texas [PDF]

, 1991
The ALCOA #1 (41AN87) site is a Frankston Phase (ca. A.D. 1400-1650) site located on a high alluvial terrace of Mound Prairie Creek, about seven kilometers northeast of Palestine, Texas.
Amick, Clyde, Bruseth, James E., Furman, Ed, Perttula, Timothy K., Yates, Bonnie C.   +4 more
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Something old, something new: further notes on the Aborigines of the Sydney District as represented by their surviving artefacts, and as depicted in some early European representations. In F.D. McCarthy, Commemorative Papers (Archaeology, Anthropology, Rock Art), ed. Jim Specht [PDF]

, 1993
J. V. S. Megaw
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Hacia la institucionalización de la conservación del patrimonio arquitectónico en el área Maya. La Contrata de Copán

Restauro Archeologico, 2017
In 1891, the Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Honduras Government signed an agreement that would mean an unprecedented milestone for the conservation of the Maya architectural heritage. By means of this convention,
Nuria Matarredona Desantes
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Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
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Patterns of Enslavement and Economic Oppression of Central Virginia [PDF]

, 2017
I address how anthropologists can identify the patterns and development of slavery and economic oppression through archaeology and the visualization of Virginia enslavement. I focus on the enslaved people of James Madison\u27s Montpelier.
Bedwell, Hannah
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