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Tracing the pathways to Yathrib (Al-Madinah): A GIS-based analysis of settlement patterns and ancient trade networks. [PDF]

PLoS One
Metwaly M, Alshami A.
europepmc   +1 more source

God Knows Best

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
wiley   +1 more source

Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland. [PDF]

Commun Biol
Fraser M, Sanchez-Quinto F, Kırdök E, Ausmees K, Kılınç GM, Larena M, Correa-Mendoza L, Le Meur A, Blanchet A, Bergfeldt N, Arrieta-Donato E, Escobar-Rodríguez M, Götherström A, Lozano-Gonzalez K, Aguilar-Ordoñez I, Malmström H, Knutsson K, Wallin P, Rascovan N, Storå J, Jakobsson M.   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
wiley   +1 more source

Deep learning black box and pattern recognition analysis using Guided Grad-CAM for phytolith identification. [PDF]

Ann Bot
Berganzo-Besga I, Orengo HA, Lumbreras F, Ramsey MN.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Response of Remote Tropical West Pacific Islands to Climate Variability: A Multiproxy Record From T‐Lake, Palau, Spanning the Early Holocene to Present

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lake sediments are natural archives of past environmental dynamics and how these systems have responded to past climate variability. Sediment geochemistry, governed by local geology and climate processes, is unique to each lake‐catchment and geochemical proxies must be validated for each study site.
Jalene Nalbant, Larissa Schneider, Jessica L. Blois, Matthew Wolhowe, Julian P. Sachs, Simon G. Haberle, Geoffrey Clark   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of raw material in textile bone instruments from the capital of the Roman Province of Lusitania (Mérida, Spain). [PDF]

Sci Rep
Paladugu R, Antonosyan M, Bustamante-Álvarez M, Roberts P, Detry C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

International Congress of Classical Archaeology [PDF]

Antiquity, 1958
openaire   +1 more source

Tracing Identity in a Fragmented Past: Multi‐Proxy Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains From Dungowan Creek, New South Wales, Australia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human skeletal remains constitute critical archaeological evidence for reconstructing past societies, yet their investigation requires careful ethical, cultural, and legislative consideration. This paper reports on the discovery, recovery and analysis of a set of skeletal remains encountered during a cultural heritage management (CHM ...
Antonella Skepasianos, Cameron Neal, Sarah Croker, Anthony Dosseto, Michelle Fermor, Steve Talbott, Warren Mayers, Joel Mason, Florian Dux, Luke Kirkwood, Pamela Kottaras, Alan N. Williams   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gray wolves in an anthropogenic context on a small island in prehistoric Scandinavia. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Girdland-Flink L, Bergström A, Storå J, Ersmark E, Apel J, Krzewińska M, Dalén L, Götherström A, Skoglund P.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source