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Cooperation, collective action, and the archeology of large-scale societies [PDF]

, 2016
Archeologists investigating the emergence of large-scale societies in the past have renewed interest in examining the dynamics of cooperation as a means of understanding societal change and organizational variability within human groups over time. Unlike
Birch J, Blanton RE, Blanton RE, Blanton RE, Bortot S, Boyd R, Carballo DM, Chabot‐Hanowell B, Cobean RH, Ember CR, Feinman GM, Feinman GM, Hirth KG, Hirth KG, Hunt R, Kowalewski SA, Levi M, McCloskey DN, Mezze García M, Nichols DL, Smith ME, Smith ME   +21 more
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Grazing to Gravy: Faunal Remains and Indications of Genízaro Foodways on the Spanish Colonial Frontier of New Mexico [PDF]

, 2017
Understanding identity aspects of those labeled Genízaro during the late Spanish Colonial period of New Mexico benefits from finer-grained perspectives on what ranges and mixtures of practices persons bearing this casta designation may have performed ...
Sunseri, JU
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Mathematics, statistics and archaeometry: the past 50 years or so [PDF]

, 2008
This review of developments in the use of mathematics and statistics in archaeometry over the past 50 years is partial, personal and 'broad-brush'. The view is expressed that it is in the past 30 years or so that the major developments have taken place ...
Aitchison, Baxter, Baxter, Baxter, Baxter, Baxter, Baxter, Baxter, Beier, Bieber, Binford, Binford, Bronk-Ramsey, Buck, Buxeda i Garrigós, Buxeda i Garrigós, Buxeda i Garrigós, Clarke, Doran, Dunnell, Freeman, Glascock, Hodson, Kendall, Kendall, Naylor, Neff, Orton, Pollard, Pollard, Ringrose, Robinson, Scaife, Scaife, Shanks, Shennan, Shennan, Spaulding, Whittle   +38 more
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Argeologie van homofobie: Boustene van mag

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013
Archaeology of homophobia: Building blocks of power. The article investigates present-day discourses which demonstrate coercive power with regard to sexuality according to which people are attributed an identity.
Mark le Roux, Yolanda Dreyer
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Truth [PDF]

, 2014
In his final works, Foucault explains his overall project as a “history of truth” centered on the relations between subjectivity and truth. While the early archaeology focuses primarily on the formation of new objects and discourses of knowledge, and ...
Deere, Don
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Functional models from limited data: A parametric and multimodal approach to anatomy and 3D kinematics of feeding in basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Basking sharks, Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, Brugden [Squalus maximus], Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter, 1765, vol. 3, pp. 33–49), feed by gaping their mouths and gill slits, greatly reorienting their cranial skeletons to filter food from water.
Tairan Li, Mike Schindler, Martha Paskin, Venkata A. Surapaneni, Elliott Scott, Sabine Hauert, Nicholas Payne, David E. Cade, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Frederik H. Mollen, Daniel Baum, Sean Hanna, Mason N. Dean   +12 more
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Pachacamac y el Proyecto Ychsma (1999-2003)

Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2004
The Ychsma Project (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium - Instituto Nacional de Cultura del Perú) started back in 1999. Its main objectives are the understanding of the functionning, development and influence of the site of Pachacamac during the Late ...
Peter Eeckhout
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The k-NN algorithm for compositional data: a revised approach with and without zero values present [PDF]

, 2014
In compositional data, an observation is a vector with non-negative components which sum to a constant, typically 1. Data of this type arise in many areas, such as geology, archaeology, biology, economics and political science among others.
Tsagris, Michail
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Ontogenetic changes and sexual dimorphism in the cranium and mandible of the Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus L.)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Walruses have been an important subsistence and cultural resource for humans and have been exploited for millennia across their distribution. This exploitation has contributed to severe declines in several populations and local extirpations.
Katrien Dierickx, Oliver Kersten, Youri van den Hurk, Brenna A. Frasier, Richard Sabin, Bastiaan Star, James H. Barrett   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scratches from the Past: Inflationary Archaeology through Features in the Power Spectrum of Primordial Fluctuations

, 2019
Inflation may provide unique insight into the physics at the highest available energy scales that cannot be replicated in any realistic terrestrial experiment.
Chen, Xingang, Dvorkin, Cora, Green, Daniel, Meerburg, P. Daniel, Silverstein, Eva, Slosar, Anže, Wallisch, Benjamin   +6 more
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