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Leveraging known Pacific colonisation times to test models for the ancestry of Southeast Asians. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Almeida M, Gandini F, Rito T, Foody MG, Brandão A, Oliveira M, Olivieri A, Fichera A, Oteo-Garcia G, Zainuddin Z, Eng KK, Pomat W, Bryk J, Pereira L, Farr H, Pala M, Oppenheimer SJ, Richards MB, Soares P.   +18 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Tactile tensions: uncertainty, mutuality, and therianthropic nightmares in Highland Odisha Tact et tensions : incertitude, mutualité et cauchemars thérianthropiques dans les hautes terres de l'Odisha

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In the central highlands of Odisha, India, Kutia Kondh families navigate a precarious reality shaped by productive autonomy, decentralized authority, and material and relational uncertainty. Abundance and destitution are finely balanced in a world where humans, animals, ancestors, and spirits are co‐present and co‐dependent but also opaque and ...
Sam Wilby
wiley   +1 more source

Livestock husbandry in Islamic Cártama, Málaga, Spain: the micro and bioarchaeology of an open-air <i>Fumier</i> sequence. [PDF]

Archaeol Anthropol Sci
Banerjea RY, Eguiluz MA, Morandi LF, Ros J, Vrydaghs L, Devos Y, Larrieu M, Losilla N, Bertelli I, Ribechini E, Cuesta AM, García MG, García FM, Contreras GG, Pluskowski A.   +14 more
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No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war Nul égalitarisme dans les hautes terres Wa : commensuration relative dans la parenté, le sacrifice et la guerre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating human paleodiet at Mesolithic Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Karelia using a multi-proxy stable isotope approach. [PDF]

PLoS One
Eckelmann RII, Arppe L, Schulting RJ, Ghosh S, Trubač J, Kuchařová A, Wooller MJ, Gerasimov D, Moiseyev V, Mannermaa K.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Society beyond morality: mimesis, sovereignty, and being not‐human in the Nyau associations of Malawi La société par‐delà la moralité : mimèse, souveraineté et existence non humaine dans les sociétés Nyau du Malawi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
wiley   +1 more source

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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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

<i>FIAT LUX</i>: The Mullein's (<i>Verbascum</i> sp.) Image and Its Symbology Through History Within the Euro-Mediterranean Culture. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Soldovieri N, Lazzara A, Albani Rocchetti G, Bartoli F, Caneva G.   +4 more
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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