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Boreas, EarlyView.The site of Barmaky currently marks the oldest Epigravettian occupation of north‐western Ukraine shortly after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), dated to around 19 cal. ka BP. Stable isotope analyses of bone collagen from six terrestrial mammals and two bird species show a comparatively highly structured palaeo‐food web.
Lilian Reiss +6 more
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Lair, Glenshee, Perth & Kinross Archive Report: the lithic assemblage (4268161; 4415161) [PDF]
, 2015 An analysis of the lithic assemblage from the excavations undertaken by the Tay Landscape Partnership in 2012 and 2014 at The Lair ...
Wright, Dene
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Bipedalism or bipedalisms: The os coxae of StW 573
Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.There has been a long debate about the possibility of multiple contemporaneous species of Australopithecus in both eastern and southern Africa, potentially exhibiting different forms of bipedal locomotion. Here, we describe the previously unreported morphology of the os coxae in the 3.67 Ma Australopithecus prometheus StW 573 from Sterkfontein Member 2
Robin Crompton +15 more
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A Viking burial at Balnakeil, Sutherland [PDF]
, 2012 A full discussion of a young Viking male pagan grave with full consideration of its context and broader significance in the context of the Norse in the British ...
Batey, C., Paterson, C.
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Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.Modeling maps of the endocranial surface. Orange color indicates resorption fields, blue color deposition. Dashed lines indicate that the pars lateralis and pars basilaris have not yet fused. Abstract Studies of modeling processes have provided important insights in human evolutionary discipline.
Cristina Lozano‐Bendicho +7 more
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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 +21 more
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Metaphors and the Invention of Writing
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract The foundation of ancient, invented writing systems lies in the predominant iconicity of their sign shapes. However, these shapes are often used not for their referential meaning but in a metaphorical way, whereby one entity stands for another.
Ludovica Ottaviano +3 more
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Excavations and the afterlife of a professional football stadium, Peel Park, Accrington, Lancashire: towards an archaeology of football [PDF]
, 2012 Association football is now a multi-billion dollar global industry whose emergence spans the post-medieval to the modern world. With its professional roots in late 19th-century industrial Lancashire, stadiums built for the professionalization of ...
Ayto E. +19 more
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Measuring Beyond the Standard: Informal Measurement Systems as Cognitive Technologies
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the role of measurement as a cognitive technology across human history, emphasizing the coexistence of formal and informal measurement systems. While standardized systems dominate contemporary culture and are well documented across large‐scale societies of the past, this manuscript highlights the less explored domain of ...
Roope O. Kaaronen +2 more
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Beauly Sub-Station, Beauly, Highland. Archive Report: the lithic assemblage (4004161) [PDF]
, 2015 An analysis of the lithic assemblage from the excavations undertaken by Northlight Heritage at Beauly Sub ...
Wright, Dene
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