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Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
wiley   +1 more source

A bone tool used by neanderthal for flaying carcasses at the Abri du Maras (France). [PDF]

Sci Rep
Doyon L, Hernando JM, Moncel MH, Richard M, Arnaud V, d'Errico F.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Abducted by a Terrestrial Alien: Sensory Distortions, Weird Fungi and Aerial Anomalies in a Decrepit Mountain Cabin

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This account explores how circumstances verging on the other‐worldly alter human perception and consciousness in a fieldwork situation. The case study involves an archaeological field survey team stranded for a time on a remote Lapland mountain.
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen, Vesa‐Pekka Herva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Natural Inhibitory Treatment of Fungi-Induced Deterioration of Carbonate and Cellulosic Ancient Monuments: Isolation, Identification and Simulation of Biogenic Deterioration. [PDF]

J Microbiol Biotechnol
El-Sayed MH, AlHarbi M, Elsehemy IA, Haggag WM, Refaat BM, Ali SM, Elkelish A.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Do Energetic Challenges Mimicking Missed Foraging Encourage Torpor Use by a Neotropical Bat?

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
We experimentally tested whether Merriam's long‐tongued bat (Glossophaga mutica), a Neotropical nectarivorous species, uses heterothermy in response to reduced energy intake. We found that energetically challenged bats maintained subcutaneous temperatures significantly closer to roost temperature during the daytime inactive period.
Zenon J. Czenze, Stuart Parsons, R. Mark Brigham   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clothomics: a practical guide to understand the opportunities and challenges of omics-based methods in archaeological cloth research. [PDF]

NPJ Herit Sci
Viñas-Caron LC, Brandt LØ.
europepmc   +1 more source

ON HISTORICAL (ANTI‐)REALISM

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 58-82, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The problem of historical realism has gained some new momentum recently, with a fresh challenge to what is taken to be an anti‐realist hegemony in the theory and philosophy of history. Unfortunately, this has also provided the opportunity for the reheating of old polemics and lazy scholarship that characterized the 1990s reaction to ...
João Ohara
wiley   +1 more source

Hidden artistic complexity of Peru's Chancay culture discovered in tattoos by laser-stimulated fluorescence. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Kaye TG, Bąk J, Marcelo HW, Pittman M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Wibana: How Bobonaza Runa and Forest Animals Know and Live With Each Other

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Runa women living along the Bobonaza river in the Ecuadorian Amazon raise captured forest animals, in a practice called wibana. Runa women are attentive to the particular ways the wiba (raised) animals interface with the world, and learn the wibas’ communicative repertoires and are able to “read” what wibas sense in the forest, including ...
James Beveridge
wiley   +1 more source

A tale of two agricultural revolutions: crop introductions in the long 1st millennium ce southern Levant. [PDF]

Veg Hist Archaeobot
Hansen AM, Heinrich F, Langgut D, Weiss E, Fuks D.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source