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Reductions in the dietary niche of southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) from the Holocene to the Anthropocene. [PDF]

, 2020
The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal hunted to near extinction during the 1800s. Despite their well-known modern importance as a keystone species, we know little about historical sea otter ecology.
Elliott Smith, Emma A, Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane, Hylkema, Mark G, Kennett, Douglas J, Newsome, Seth D, Tinker, Martin Tim, Vellanoweth, René L, Whistler, Emily L   +7 more
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Assessing the applicability of protein residues in combination with lipid residues to reconstruct Indus foodways from Gujarat

Quaternary Environments and Humans
When extracted and analysed in tandem, proteomics and lipid residue analysis can provide high resolution identification of ancient foodstuff. Here, we apply lipid residue and shotgun proteomic analyses to 11 ceramic vessel sherds from the Gujarat, India ...
Kalyan Sekhar Chakraborty, Lindsey Paskulin, Prabodh Shirvalkar, Yadubirsingh Rawat, Heather M.-L. Miller, Greg Slater, Camilla Speller   +6 more
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Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito, Judith M. Burkart, Carel van Schaik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Anthropological Perspective on Magistrate Jelderks’ Kennewick Man Decision [PDF]

, 2003
The “Kennewick Man” controversy is an extremely important case in the history of American anthropology. As anthropologists with backgrounds in American Indian studies and American archaeology, we have a particular interest in this case.
Jones, Peter N., Stapp, Darby
core  

Bordos and Boundaries: Sustainable Agriculture in the High Altitude Deserts of Northwest Argentina, AD 850-1532 [PDF]

, 2014
Bordos were essential for the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the high altitude desert of Antofagasta de la Sierra in Northwest Argentina during the Late (AD 850 – 1480) and Inca Period (AD 1480 – 1532).
Lane, Kevin John, Salminci, Pedro Miguel, Tchilinguirian, Pablo   +2 more
core   +1 more source

THE VAKHRUSHEVO-1 BURIAL GROUND (NOVOSIBIRSK OB REGION): MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES (ARCHAEOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, PALEOGENETICS) [PDF]

, 2023
В. И. Молодин, Lilia S. Kobeleva, Dmitry V. Pozdnyakov, I.A. Durakov, Р. О. Трапезов, Alexander Pilipenko, S. V. Cherdantsev   +6 more
openalex   +1 more source

Home is where my villa is: a machine learning-based predictive suitability map for Roman features in Northern Noricum (ca. 50–500 CE/Lower Austria/AUT)

Journal of Maps
This study presents the first suitability map for identifying Roman-era archaeological features in Northern Noricum (modern Lower Austria/AUT) from ca. 50 – 500 CE.
Dominik Hagmann
doaj   +1 more source

Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez, Stephen W. Enciso   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Women Traders of the Viking Age: An Analysis of Grave Goods [PDF]

, 2017
The image of Viking culture that most of us carry in our heads is largely masculine and testosterone-driven. Where are women in the Scandinavian past? Examining grave goods associated with female burials—including items of personal adornment—this article
Mierswa, Emily
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Estimación de edades arqueológicas usando la hidratación de obsidianas: dos fuentes de los andes meridionales [PDF]

, 2016
Obsidian is abundant in archaeological sites throughout Mendoza Province, Argentina but no obsidian hydration rates exist to date these assemblages.
Bettinger, Robert, Carpenter, Tim, Garvey, Raven, Gil, Adolfo Fabian, Neme, Gustavo Adolfo   +4 more
core   +1 more source