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Baked Clay Animal Figurines of the Karaz Culture from Early Excavations in the Erzurum Archeological Museum

Art-Sanat
Figurines are significant archeological artifacts that depict humans and animals, often serving practical or symbolic purposes. Considering their location, these small artifacts provide significant insights into the belief systems of the cultures to ...
Rabia Akarsu, Elif Şener
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When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Galit Itzhaki Draizin, Agamit Gelb   +2 more
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Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 26-36, January/March 2025.
Abstract The 2024 general election delivered a verdict on an unpopular Conservative government, a valence election where the key motivation was to remove a government seen as failing. But this is not a full account of the voting choices of the British public.
Paula Surridge
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Rethinking Representation and Animation

Current Swedish Archaeology
Archaeological interpretations of prehistoric humanoid figurines, made and used by the hunter-gatherers of the Stone Ages, have traditionally relied on Western concepts of hylomorphism and iconology.
Erik Solfeldt, Anna Naglaya
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A Figurine and its Scale, a Scale and its Figurine

Internet Archaeology, 2015
I was taught to think of archaeological photography as faceless, a to-scale and accurate depiction of ancient artefacts and sites but these rules only apply to one part of archaeological photography, the 'official' one.
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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
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Recent Bibliography on Coroplastic Topics: 2016–2017

Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2018
This list of recent publications pertaining to coroplast studies has been compiled mainly from Dyabola. ACoSt welcomes notices of publications pertaining to coroplastic topics that focus on material from the Near East, Egypt, Old Europe, Africa, and the ...
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Female terracottas found in the Southern Turkmenistan archaeological sites of the Bronze Age

Studia Humanitatis, 2023
The article describes female terracotta figurines found in the archaeological sites of Southern Turkmenistan. The author describes the history of the study, decorative features, purposes of manufacture and use by the ancient population of these finds ...
Mommaliyeva Mayagozel Amanaliyevna
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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
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Bronze figurines of Mercury-Thoth from Albania

Dissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae
Along with other aspects of society, Illyrian religion was influenced by the Roman world during the first centuries AD. As a result, Mercury became the Roman god most represented in bronze figurines found within the modern territory of Albania.
Sabina Veseli
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