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The mind & muscles: Introducing a validated EEG/EMG protocol for recording cognitive-muscular interactions in experimental archaeology. [PDF]
Eteson B, Affinito S, Karakostis FA.
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
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
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War both reduced and increased inequality over the past ten thousand years. [PDF]
McCoy MD+7 more
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The Kigali story, the Singapore model, and rights to the city
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Michael M.J. Fischer
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Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System
ABSTRACT This article assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales. I use the distinction between impairment and disability from the ‘social model of disability’ to show that the disabling capacities of impairments varied depending on wider social structures and beliefs, and on each
Emily Cock
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From the jaws of the "Leviathan": A sperm whale tooth from the Valencina Copper Age Megasite. [PDF]
Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-Galindo S+11 more
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Innovation through recycling in Iron Age plaster technology at Tell el-Burak, Lebanon. [PDF]
Amicone S+9 more
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Seasonal decomposition and the effect of clothing in Cape Town, South Africa
Abstract Unidentified, unclaimed human remains are a substantial problem in many developing nations, including South Africa. Most forensic cases in Cape Town involve clothed individuals found in thicketed environments. To assist in local medico‐legal death investigations, we gathered taphonomic data on six clothed and four unclothed 60 kg porcine ...
Maximilian J. Spies+3 more
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