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Soils and Soil Landscapes of the Raganello River Catchment (Calabria, Italy)

open access: yes, 2016
This volume details the geoarchaeological research conducted from 2011 to 2013 in the basin of the Raganello River (Calabria, Italy) within the broader 'Rural Life in Protohistoric Italy' research programme of the third author.
Sevink, Jan   +3 more
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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
wiley   +1 more source

Continuity and Change: Identity in LM IIIC to Hellenistic East Crete [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Archaeology is in the privileged position of being able to examine identities through the long time periods often called upon by advocates of essentialist identities, such as those working in the modern political sphere, using theory, methodology and ...
Maarschalk, Rebekah L
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the public experience of archaeology in the uk and Italy: a call for a ‘sociological movement’ in Public Archaeology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Despite the continuing growth of Public Archaeology as a field of studies, the composition and behaviour of the ‘public’ for archaeology are still heavily under-investigated.
Bonacchi, C, Bonacchi, Chiara
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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

open access: yesJournal 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

‘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

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Die Ausgrabung Molino San Vincenzo (Toskana/ITA)

open access: yes, 2016
Poster über den ländlichen Siedlungsplatz Molino San Vincenzo in der nördlichen Toskana. Er befindet sich nahe Empoli in der Gemeinde Montespertoli. Die bisherigen Befunde und Funde von Molino San Vincenzo können als Reste einer römischen Villa mittlerer
Schreck, Veronika (Department of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna)   +1 more
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The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece Le rôle du Bassin méditerranéen oriental dans l’évolution humaine : résultats récents en Grèce

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
wiley   +1 more source

Funding Matters : Archaeology and the Political Economy of the Past in the EU

open access: yes, 2016
The aim of this thesis is to show how Europe is constructed at the intersection between archaeology, money and politics within EU cultural actions. Ever since the 1970s, the European Community has invested money and prestige in the idea of a common ...
Niklasson, Elisabeth
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