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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Human Evolution in Backwaters, Satellites, and Republics: How Political Change Impacts Paleoanthropology in a Shifting Landscape of Winners and Losers. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Glantz M, Radovčić D.
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Importation of Obsidian at Cerro Palenque, Honduras: Results of an Analysis by EDXRF

, 2004
The results of source analysis by EDXRF of obsidian artifacts from the Mesoamerican site of Cerro Palenque in Honduras are reported and changes over time discussed. Sources of obsidian include Ixtepeque, El Chayal, Jalapa, San Martin Jilotepeque, and San
Hendon, Julia A.
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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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Detecting and quantifying networks of biological kinship via exponential family random graph models. [PDF]

Genetics
Rohrlach AB, Gnecchi-Ruscone GA, Hofmanová Z, Rácz Z, Roughan M, Haak W, Tuke J.   +6 more
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Social Memory and Ritualized Practice in Prehispanic Honduras

, 2012
This paper discusses ritualized practices in domestic spaces as signs of an ongoing and dynamic engagement between the people living there and non-human material and incorporeal social actors, using archaeological evidence from the ancient town of Cerro ...
Hendon, Julia A.
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Sourcing the origins of carnelian in early Chinese civilizations. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Yan M, Liu J, Qin C, He X, Li X, Yu J, Mao R, Han H, Sun Z, Wang C, Xie Z, Ran H, Tang F, Kenoyer JM, Tang Z.   +14 more
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Genomic history of early dogs in Europe. [PDF]

Nature
Bergström A, Furtwängler A, Johnston S, Rosengren E, Breidenstein A, Booth T, McCabe JB, Peto J, Williams M, Kelly M, Tait F, Baumann C, Radzeviciute R, Barrington C, Anastasiadou K, Gilardet A, Glocke I, Sherman M, Brativnyk A, Herbig A, Prüfer K, Pfrengle S, Gretzinger J, Feuerborn TR, Reiter E, Linderholm A, Charlton S, Racimo F, Mikkola L, Anderson-Whymark H, Baird D, Gotfredsen AB, Bocherens H, Bridault A, Brocke R, Drucker DG, Fairbairn AS, Frantz L, Gasparyan B, Giemsch L, Germonpré M, Janssens L, Kandel AW, Kjær K, Lázničková-Galetová M, Loponte D, Magnell O, Martin L, Münzel SC, Mustafaoğlu G, Måge B, Perri A, Pfenninger F, Roblíčková M, Roman-Binois A, Sarıtaş Ö, Schäppi K, Sheridan JA, Sjögren KG, Storå J, Sørensen LV, Tafelmaier Y, Ter-Nedden F, Thalmann O, Larson G, Schuenemann VJ, Krause J, Skoglund P.   +67 more
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