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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

Changes in agglomeration and productivity are poor predictors of inequality across the archaeological record. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Ortman SG, Bogaard A, Munson J, Lawrence D, Green AS, Feinman GM, Chirikure S, Uhl JH, Leyk S.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
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War both reduced and increased inequality over the past ten thousand years. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
McCoy MD, Birch J, Chirikure S, Cruz P, Green AS, Gronenborn D, Lawrence D, Roscoe P.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya Affinités morphologiques du crâne fossile de Kabua (Kenya)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of the origins of Homo sapiens is limited, in part, by the fragmented fossil record from Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Africa. Here, we re‐examine the Kabua 1 cranium, an enigmatic and little‐studied Kenyan fossil discovered in the 1950s. We compare virtual reconstructions created previously by our team with a wide range
Abel Marinus Bosman, Laura Tabitha Buck, Hugo Reyes‐Centeno, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Chris Stringer, Rainer Grün, Qingfeng Shao, Katerina Harvati   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Radiocarbon dating of Jerusalem's Siloam Dam links climate data and major waterworks. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Regev J, Szanton N, Vukosavović F, Berko I, Shalev Y, Uziel J, Mintz E, Regev L, Boaretto E.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann, Simon Fries, Bobomullo Bobomulloev, Muhsin Bobomulloev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Snakes and Ladders: A technological approach to tool maintenance byproducts using module flake categories. [PDF]

J Archaeol Method Theory
Nora D, Malinsky-Buller A, Gasparyan B, Petrosyan A, Frahm E.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Operation Northern Light : a remote sensing Approach to Second World War conflict archaeology in Northern Finland (Kilpisjärvi, Enontekiö)

, 2021
De Mulder, Guy, Gheyle, Wouter, Oula, Seitsonen, Plets, Gertjan, Stichelbaut, Birger, Thomas, Suzie   +5 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source