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A "Dirty" Footprint: Macroinvertebrate diversity in Amazonian Anthropic Soils. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol, 2021
Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) are fertile soils found throughout the Amazon Basin, created by pre‐Columbian societies with sedentary habits. Much is known about the chemistry of these soils, yet their zoology has been neglected. Studying nine archeological sites in Amazonian regions and adjacent reference soils we found 673 morphospecies and, we ...
Demetrio WC, Conrado AC, Acioli ANS, Ferreira AC, Bartz MLC, James SW, da Silva E, Maia LS, Martins GC, Macedo RS, Stanton DWG, Lavelle P, Velasquez E, Zangerlé A, Barbosa R, Tapia-Coral SC, Muniz AW, Santos A, Ferreira T, Segalla RF, Decaëns T, Nadolny HS, Peña-Venegas CP, Maia CMBF, Pasini A, Mota AF, Taube Júnior PS, Silva TAC, Rebellato L, de Oliveira Júnior RC, Neves EG, Lima HP, Feitosa RM, Vidal Torrado P, McKey D, Clement CR, Shock MP, Teixeira WG, Motta ACV, Melo VF, Dieckow J, Garrastazu MC, Chubatsu LS, TPI Network, Kille P, Brown GG, Cunha L.   +46 more
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Ethics and applications of isotope analysis in archaeology. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Abstract This synthesis explores specific ethical questions that commonly arise in isotopic analysis. For more than four decades, isotope analysis has been employed in archeological studies to explore past human and animal dietary habits, mobility patterns, and the environment in which a human or animal inhabited during life.
Stantis C, Schaefer BJ, Correia MA, Alaica AK, Huffer D, Plomp E, Di Giusto M, Chidimuro B, Rose AK, Nayak A, Kendall EJ.   +10 more
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Exploring directional and fluctuating asymmetry in the human palate during growth. [PDF]

Am J Phys Anthropol, 2021
Directional and fluctuating asymmetry of human palate. Abstract Objectives Palate morphology is constantly changing throughout an individual's lifespan, yet its asymmetry during growth is still little understood. In this research, we focus on the study of palate morphology by using 3D geometric morphometric approaches to observe changes at different ...
Oxilia G, Menghi Sartorio JC, Bortolini E, Zampirolo G, Papini A, Boggioni M, Martini S, Marciani F, Arrighi S, Figus C, Marciani G, Romandini M, Silvestrini S, Pedrosi ME, Mori T, Riga A, Kullmer O, Sarig R, Fiorenza L, Giganti M, Sorrentino R, Belcastro MG, Cecchi JM, Benazzi S.   +23 more
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State and life in Cuba: calibrating ideals and realities in a state-socialist system for food provision. [PDF]

Soc Anthropol, 2020
Based on our collective ethnography of Cuba’s socialist system for the provision of state‐subsidised food, this article explores manners in which the state weaves itself into the fabric of people’s everyday lives in state‐socialist society. Instituted by Cuba’s revolutionary government in the early 1960s, Cuba’s ‘state system for provisioning’ is still
Mesa Cumbrera O, Carrazana Fuentes LY, Rodríguez Hernández D, Holbraad M, Reyes Mora I, Cano Orúe MR.   +5 more
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Beyond sex, gender, and other dilemmas: Human pelvic morphology from an integrative context

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 32, Issue 5, Page 293-305, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Recent research on the pelvis has clarified the flexibility of pelvic bones to manage nearly infinite possibilities in terms of selection and drift, while still maintaining excellent bipedalism. Despite this work, and the studies outlining the diversity of pelvic morphology across the hominin lineage, conversations continue to be stymied by ...
Cara Wall‐Scheffler, Helen Kurki
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Amazonian Activism for European Museum Audiences: Critical Reflections on the Development of an “Amazonia” Exhibition at the National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands

Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 277-295, April 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper describes and expands on the discussions held at a symposium at the Research Center for Material Culture in the Netherlands in February 2020, which was held as part of the planning of an upcoming “Amazonia” exhibition to be curated at that institution by some of the authors.
Laura Osorio Sunnucks, María Mercedes Martínez Milantchi, Martin Berger, Andrea Scholz, Mariana Françozo   +4 more
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Hidden in plain sight: A microanalytical study of a Middle Stone Age ochre piece trapped inside a micromorphological block sample

Geoarchaeology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 283-313, March/April 2021., 2021
Graphical Abstract 3D reconstruction of a Middle Stone Age ochre piece trapped inside a micromorphological block sample. Abstract A complete Middle Stone Age ochre piece was unintentionally collected and fully preserved within a micromorphological block sample intended to characterise a 74 ± 3 ka occupation horizon at Blombos Cave, South Africa ...
Magnus M. Haaland, André M. Strauss, Elizabeth C. Velliky, Susan M. Mentzer, Christopher E. Miller, Karen L. van Niekerk, Christopher S. Henshilwood   +6 more
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Ancient Amazonian populations left lasting impacts on forest structure

Ecosphere, Volume 8, Issue 12, December 2017., 2017
Abstract Amazonia contains a vast expanse of contiguous tropical forest and is influential in global carbon and hydrological cycles. Whether ancient Amazonia was highly disturbed or modestly impacted, and how ancient disturbances have shaped current forest ecosystem processes, is still under debate.
M. W. Palace, C. N. H. McMichael, B. H. Braswell, S. C. Hagen, M. B. Bush, E. Neves, E. Tamanaha, C. Herrick, S. Frolking   +8 more
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Preliminary Compositional Evidence of Provenance of Ceramics from Hatahara Archaeological Site, Central Amazonia

Journal of Chemistry, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013
One hundred twenty four ceramic fragments and six clay samples from the Hatahara archaeological site in Amazonas state, Brazil, were analyzed using instrumental neutron activation analysis, INAA, to determine the concentration of twenty chemical elements: Ce, Co, Cr, Cs, Eu, Fe, Hf, K, La, Lu, Na, Nd, Rb, Sc, Ta, Tb, Th, U, Yb, and Zn.
K. P. Nunes, R. G. Toyota, P. M. S. Oliveira, E. G. Neves, E. A. A. Soares, C. S. Munita, Yiannis Kourkoutas   +6 more
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ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 422-452, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to situate the diverse collections within ongoing debates about art restitution.
Arielle Xena Alterwaite
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