Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour [PDF]
, 2009 It is proposed here that the archaeological evidence for the emergence of 'modern behaviour' (160,000-40,000 bp) can best be explained as the rise of cognitive variation within populations through social mechanisms for integrating 'different minds ...
Spikins, Penny
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Nature Communications, 2018 Much of the North American megafauna went extinct in the late Pleistocene, but the causes are debated. Here the authors analyze human and megafaunal population dynamics in Pleistocene North America and find variation among taxa and region in whether ...
Jack M. Broughton, Elic M. Weitzel
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Cultural heritage and memory: untangling the ties that bind
Culture & History Digital Journal, 2015 Today in heritage studies memory looms larger than ever, there are memory parks, memory politics, and memory wars, there is discussion of ‘dissonant’, ‘dark’, and ‘difficult’ heritage linked to memories of traumatic past events.
Dacia Viejo-Rose
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Principles and Practice of Investigating Buried Adobe Features with Ground-Penetrating Radar
Remote Sensing, 2021 Because so many ancestral populations, at various times, have lived within the constraints of earthen architectural technology, it has significant representation in building traditions across large temporal and geographic expanses.
Scott Byram, Jun Ueno Sunseri
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Evidence for late polynesian colonization of New Zealand: University of Waikato radiocarbon measurements [PDF]
, 1997 We present radiocarbon determinations for 271 New Zealand archaeological samples measured at the University of Waikato Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory between 1975 and 1995.
Higham, Thomas F.G., Hogg, Alan G.
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Mul Meyaj Tía U Betá Jump’el Kaj: Working Together to Build a Community in Puuc Archaeology
Heritage, 2020 This paper explores specific challenges that archaeologists face when attempting to involve a broader community of local stakeholders in cultural heritage research. We combine our perspectives as a US-based archaeologist and a local community member in a
Kenneth E. Seligson, Manuel Chi Nah
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Comparative Performance of the MGISEQ-2000 and Illumina X-Ten Sequencing Platforms for Paleogenomics
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 The MGISEQ-2000 sequencer is widely used in various omics studies, but the performance of this platform for paleogenomics has not been evaluated. We here compare the performance of MGISEQ-2000 with the Illumina X-Ten on ancient human DNA using four ...
Kongyang Zhu +11 more
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Human Dental Microwear From Ohalo II (22,500–23,500 cal BP), Southern Levant [PDF]
, 2007 Dietary hardness and abrasiveness are inferred from human dental microwear at Ohalo II, a late Upper Palaeolithic site (22,500–23,500 cal BP) in the southern Levant.
Agelarakis +123 more
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Middle Pleistocene protein sequences from the rhinoceros genus Stephanorhinus and the phylogeny of extant and extinct Middle/Late Pleistocene Rhinocerotidae [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background Ancient protein sequences are increasingly used to elucidate the phylogenetic relationships between extinct and extant mammalian taxa. Here, we apply these recent developments to Middle Pleistocene bone specimens of the rhinoceros genus ...
Frido Welker +7 more
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