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Kuznets' tides: An archaeological perspective on the long-term dynamics of sustainable development. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Green AS, Feinman GM, Thompson AE, Cruz P, Chirikure S, Kerig T, Lawrence D, Petrie CA, Ortman SG.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of heritage spaces and monuments in the Historic Centre of Mexico City during ongoing feminist mobilizations. Feminists have claimed that the Mexican government is more concerned about protecting monuments and urban heritage than acting to prevent gender‐based violence and femicide.
Fernando Gutiérrez
wiley   +1 more source

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeology and traversing America's pre-Columbian fault line. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Thomas DH.
europepmc   +1 more source

“Alien versus predator”: predatory effect of coccinellid Exochomus quadripustulatus on the scale insect Toumeyella parvicornis. An open‐field experimentation on the Pinus pinea of Rome

Insect Science, EarlyView.
The release of gravid Exochomus quadripustulatus females proved to be effective in containing Toumeyella parvicornis infestations on stone pine trees, under open‐field condition. The ladybugs caused a lower infestation level compared to the trees that did not receive any ladybugs during the observation season.
Nicolò Di Sora, Luca Rossini, Giulia Luziatelli, Mario Contarini, Stefano Speranza   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning from volcanic eruptions: Co-production of knowledge at Merapi and Kelud, Indonesia. [PDF]

Jamba
Solekhah N, Hakim FN, Wahyono E, Prayoga RA, Fatimah S, Purbandini L, Wibowo DP, Saparita R, Febriyandi Ys F, Humaedi MA.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

COPIS: A robust and versatile robotic imaging system for the 3D digitization of natural history specimens with photogrammetry

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are increasingly turning to 3D models to use in scientific research. Natural history museums are one of the primary sources for specimens used as 3D models, and efforts are underway to digitize their collections using methods like photogrammetry.
Jeremy D. Pustilnik, Genevieve S. Rios
wiley   +1 more source

100 generations of wealth equality after the Neolithic transitions. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Kerig T, Crema ER, Birch J, Feinman GM, Green AS, Gronenborn D, Lawrence D, Petrie CA, Roscoe P, Thompson AE, Kohler TA.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
wiley   +1 more source

Archeo-Inspiration from the Cultural History of Glass: Historic Accounts, Anecdotes and Hard Facts as Challenges to Modern Material Science. [PDF]

Adv Mater
von Contzen E, von Ditfurth J, Stroth F, Rapp BE.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source