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From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object Du mammouth à la miniature : La maquette de camp d’été des Yakoutes comme objet de narration

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya. [PDF]

PLoS One
Goldstein ST, Mueller NG, Finestone E, Sawchuk EA, Juengst S, Otwani AO, Miller JM, Langley MC, Fernandes R, Steinhof A, Iminjili V, Chepkorir C, Janzen A, Ogola C, Ndiema E, Petraglia M, Boivin N.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris, Matei Candea, Thyge Enggaard, Terne Sasha Thorn Jakobsen, Morten Axel Pedersen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiproxy study reveals equality in the deposition of flaked lithic grave goods from the Baltic Stone Age cemetery Zvejnieki (Latvia). [PDF]

PLoS One
Petrović A, Bates J, Macāne A, Zagorska I, Edmonds M, Nordqvist K, Little A.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Molecular and isotopic characterization of archaeological softwood tars and resins in maritime context

, 2015
Lucile Bailly
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Guesting: rethinking the relationship between hospitality and homemaking within temporary refugee accommodation Le concept de guesting: repenser la relation entre hospitalité et création d'un « chez‐soi » dans l'hébergement temporaire des personnes réfugiées

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This paper introduces the emic concept of guesting, coined by women living in refugee accommodation to distinguish their form of hospitality from other more hierarchical forms of hosting. Central to guesting is the unspoken rule that once you have played the host, next time you must be the guest.
Charlot Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

The seasonality experiment: Investigating how seasons affect the burning conditions of cremations. [PDF]

PLoS One
Stamataki E, De Mulder G, Hermans R, Vercauteren M, Snoeck C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

Late Byzantine imports of "Elaborate Incised Wares" in the Crimea and local counterparts: Archaeological contexts and archaeometric investigations

, 2021
Iryna Teslenko, S.Y. Waksman, Nataliia Vitalievna Ginkut   +2 more
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Airborne and Spaceborne Remote Sensing and Digital Image Analysis in Archaeology

, 2018
K. Lambers
semanticscholar   +1 more source