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Ontological polyglossia: the art of communicating in opacity* Polyglossie ontologique : l'art de communiquer dans l'opacité

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
wiley   +1 more source

The Beast Within: H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and human evolution in the mid-1890s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
H.G. Wells’ novels The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau were both concerned with the evolutionary destiny of mankind and what it meant to be human, both important areas of discussion for Victorian natural science in the 1890s. In this essay I
McNabb, John
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Problemas acerca del final del Musteriense

open access: yesZephyrus, 2009
RESUMEN: El final del Musteriense es uno de los momentos que más interés ha suscitado en la investigación prehistórica de los últimos años. Sin embargo, el análisis del problema está sujeto a condicionantes tanto arqueológicos como epistemológicos. Entre
Javier BAENA PREYSLER   +1 more
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Mesolithic Europe : glimpses of another world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
[First Paragraph] Mesolithic Europe holds a special place in our imagination. Perhaps more than any other region and period, it is unique in conjuring up a strange sense of both 'otherness' and familiarity.
Spikins, Penny
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Lithics of the North African Middle Stone Age: assumptions, evidence and future directions

open access: yes, 2019
North Africa features some of the earliest manifestations of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, as well as early examples of complex culture and the long distance transfer of exotic raw materials.
Scerri, E., Spinapolica, E.
core   +1 more source

Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
wiley   +1 more source

Palaeo-environments of the Balkan Lateglacial and their potential – were humans absent from the Garden of Eden?

open access: yesБългарско е-Списание за Археология, 2013
The lower part of a sediment core taken from the Ezero lake, next to Tell Ezero, in the Thracian Plain, Bulgaria, covers the period 15500–13500 calBP (Greenland Ice Core Stages G1-1c–1e).
Enikő Magyari   +3 more
doaj  

El Epipaleolítico en la vertiente mediterránea de la Península Ibérica : investigaciones recientes

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 1997
El siguiente artículo constituye el resumen del trabajo de investigación de doctorado presentado en el Departamento de Prehistoria e Historia Antigua de la UNED.
Marta Muñiz Pérez
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity in matrilineages among the Jomon individuals of Japan

open access: yesAnnals of Human Biology, 2023
Background The Jomon period of Japan is characterised by a unique combination of sedentary and hunting/gathering lifestyles, spanning for more than 10,000 years from the final Pleistocene to the Holocene.
Fuzuki Mizuno   +5 more
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