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What Is the Acheulean?

open access: yesEvolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The Acheulean represents the longest cultural period known to human history, lasting globally for more than 1.75 million years. It may have emerged as early as 1.95 Ma in Africa, spreading throughout much of the continent and then into Eurasia and lasting up to 350–200 ka in western Europe and South Asia, and even later in eastern Asia ...
Marie‐Helene Moncel   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Rock Art: beyond 'pretty pictures'. [PDF]

open access: yesF1000Res, 2023
Valdez-Tullett J, Figueiredo Persson S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Loess Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand

open access: yesNew Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2026.
Loess in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) has been studied since its first documented recognition (on Banks Peninsula) in 1878 by Julius von Haast. A decade later, John Hardcastle revealed that southern ANZ loess was both glacial in origin and contained signals of past climates.
Brent V. Alloway   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Doppelgängers, Human Relationships, and Practical Identity

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 435-444, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the potential effects of relationships with Large Language Model (LLM)‐based digital doppelgängers (DDs) on users' values, concerns, and interests, that is, on their practical identity. DDs are artificially intelligent conversational agents trained on individuals' data to replicate their speech patterns, mannerisms ...
Cristina Voinea   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Norm Circles and Critical Realism

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT An increasing number of scholars have employed the critical realist concept of norm circles in empirical research. Norm circles are social structures, composed of human agents, that tend to encourage people to conform with norms. As such, they provide a (partly) structural explanation for social normativity, which in turn plays an important ...
Dave Elder‐Vass, Manuel Heckel
wiley   +1 more source

Kinding Culture

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Progress and dialogue in cultural analysis are often hindered by analysts' reliance on implicit ontic claims, namely, foundational, unstated assumptions about the expected properties and typical characteristics of cultural kinds, thus precluding proper debate and theoretical progress.
Omar Lizardo
wiley   +1 more source

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