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Traditional land use is integral to ecological function in SW Madagascar

Scientific Reports
Historic land-use practices are important for understanding present-day patterns of ecological productivity and resilience. A longstanding challenge, however, has been how to discern different land-use activities across landscapes from archaeological and
Dylan S. Davis, George Manahira, Bram Tucker, Kristina Douglass   +3 more
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Alberta Archaeological Review (Fall, 2000)

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Assemblages of care: Moral economies, classed labor, and affective exhaustion among Karachi's working middle‐class women

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how working middle‐class women in Karachi navigate the intersecting burdens of care and self‐care within the affective, infrastructural, and ideological conditions of urban precarity. Drawing on twelve semi‐structured interviews conducted across homes, workplaces, and cafés in the city, seven of which anchor the primary ...
Muhammad Huzaifa
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Curanderas a la sombra de la Huaca de la Luna

Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2004
This paper presents archaeological information about female healers or curanderas that are represented on Moche ceramics discovered in the archaeological complex of the Huaca del Sol and the Huaca de la Luna.
Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Douglas Sharon, Santiago Uceda   +2 more
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Alberta Archaeological Review (Spring, 2003)

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The matrilineal Turn: Wiradjuri matrilineal leadership, colonial disruption, and the work of cultural return

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article advances three claims regarding the matrilineal organization of Wiradjuri society in central New South Wales. Drawing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century ethnographic record, it demonstrates that Wiradjuri descent, totem, moiety identity, and ceremonial authority were and are matrilineally organized, despite ...
Jessa Rogers
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Alberta Archaeological Review (Fall, 2007)

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Integrating ZooMS and taphonomy further highlights differential processing of animal and Neandertal carcasses in the Quina Mousterian at Les Pradelles (Marillac‐le‐Franc, southwest France)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cave of Les Pradelles (Marillac‐le‐Franc, France) was repeatedly visited by Neandertals ~55 000 years ago and is a key site in discussions of Neandertal cannibalism. Excavations between 1967 and 1980 (Vandermeersch) and between 2001 and 2013 (Maureille/Mann) produced a rich faunal assemblage (>20 000 bones), alongside Quina Mousterian ...
Pauline Raymond, Jean‐Jacques Hublin, Karen Ruebens, Geoff M. Smith, Sandrine Costamagno, Cédric Beauval, Alan Mann, Bruno Maureille   +7 more
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Polar bears and expanding sea ice in the Mid Holocene Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Scientific Reports
The archaeological record offers the opportunity to infer the effects of regional climatic shifts on species distributions and human-animal interactions.
Lillian Draper Parker, Catherine F. West, Kaylee Hope Tatum, Michael Etnier, Brandi Bethke, Katherine Reedy, Nikkita Shellikoff, Courtney A. Hofman   +7 more
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Alberta Archaeological Review (Spring, 2007)

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