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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeogenetic insights into the demographic history of Late Neanderthals. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Fotiadou CM, Pedersen JB, Rougier H, Roksandic M, Spyrou MA, Nägele K, Reiter E, Bocherens H, Kandel AW, Haidle MN, Streicher TP, Conard NJ, Schilt F, Godinho RM, Uthmeier T, Doyon L, Semal P, Krause J, Barbieri A, Mihailović D, Crevecoeur I, Posth C.   +21 more
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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

Journal 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

Seasonality and mobility: An Integrative framework for reconstructing Kura-Araxes pastoral systems at Maxta I, Nakhchivan. [PDF]

PLoS One
Maurer G, Frémondeau D, Ismayilova N, Ashurov S, Bakhshaliyev V, Aliyeva FK, Nederbragt A, Jourdan AL, Wengrow D, Wood R, Martin L, Stevens RE.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal 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

New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Fagernäs Z, Troché G, Goldberg P, Hublin JJ, McPherron SP, Murphree WC, Olsen JV, Sandgathe D, Sirakov N, Soressi M, Tsanova T, Turq A, Wierer M, Welker F, Aldeias V.   +14 more
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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

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

‘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
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-isotope analysis of mammal bones provides environmental context for the adoption of agriculture in the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Somerville AD, Casar I, Hernández-Flores R, Otero F, Alvarado EC, Dalmas D, Arroyo-Cabrales J, Flannery KV, Morales-Puente P, Beramendi-Orosco LE.   +9 more
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