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The multifaceted nature of Egyptian mummification: Paleoradiological insights into child mummies. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zesch S, Panzer S, Paladin A, Sutherland ML, Lindauer S, Friedrich R, Pommerening T, Zink A, Rosendahl W.   +8 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, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 49-66, March 2026.
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

Ancient DNA and spatial modeling reveal a pre-Inca trans-Andean parrot trade. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Olah G, Bover P, Llamas B, Heiniger H, Segura Llanos R, Shimada I.   +5 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, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 67-84, March 2026.
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

Non-Invasive geophysical imaging reveals ptolemaic tombs at ai-dyabat for global archaeological applications. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Abudeif AM, Mohammed MA, Gaber HA.
europepmc   +1 more source

When data becomes information: visualizing archaeological textiles

, 2010
The main focus of this work is on web visualization technologies that could be applied to visualize archaeological textile data. The datasets used for the project contain more than seven thousand records of textile fragments.The web application Textile Recorder & Visualizer was created based on the WordPress publishing platform to maintain the ...
openaire   +1 more source

How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 63-72, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence of the use of silk by bronze age civilization for sacrificial purposes in the Yangtze River basin of China. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zheng H, Yang R, Guo J, Xie Z, Liu J, Yang H, Jia L, Yu J, Cai Q, Tang F, Zhou Y.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 183-194, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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
europepmc   +1 more source