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Locating Traces of Arboreal Beings: Connecting the Tree and the Woodblock
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 145-155, July 2025.ABSTRACT Woodblocks for printmaking are multi‐perspectival communicators inscribed with layered narratives. The artistic process of cutting excavates the surface of a woodblock, making visible lesser‐seen traces of the past, reflective of the practice of archaeology.
Julian Laffan
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Cahiers François Viète, 2011 This article examines the position of historians of science involved in the heritage process. Historical and memorial operations are substantially antinomic: the former aims at understanding the past, the latter at unifying a community.
Jérôme Lamy
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Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 69, Issue 2, Summer / été 2025.Résumé Les géographes usent généralement de la notion de territorialisation pour évoquer ou réfléchir sur le processus par lequel l'être humain est en relation avec le monde et y fait sa place à partir du territoire qu'il crée ou recherche. Ils emploient les notions connexes de déterritorialisation et reterritorialisation pour évoquer ou réfléchir sur ...
Mario Bédard
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People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 215-230, January 2025.Abstract West Africa, the largest cocoa‐producing region globally, has experienced significant deforestation in recent decades, leading countries to implement large‐scale agroforestry policies; however, most studies on farmers' adoption of agroforestry fail to consider the social (Who?), historical (When?), geographical (Where?), and ecological (What?)
Marie Ruth Dago +10 more
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Feral ecologies of the human deep past: multispecies archaeology and palaeo‐synanthropy
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1062-1084, December 2024.Abstract This article articulates recent advances in palaeo‐ecology with the goals and ambitions of multispecies archaeology. It centres the synanthropic nexus as a key context for the study of early human‐animal relationships and argues that its evolution yields important yet currently overlooked dynamics shaping the structure of the archaeological ...
Shumon T. Hussain
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Image et mesure : deux cultures aux origines de l’astrophysique française
Cahiers François Viète, 2006 In the commission preparing the 1874 transit of Venus, debates about the choice of photographic techniques are illustrative of the stakes that would come to characterize the beginning of astronomy in France over the following decades.
Stéphane Le Gars
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Cahiers François Viète, 2023 Driven by needs to map an expanding nation as well as by pure astronomical inquiry, nearly 50 meridian circles were installed in 19th-century U.S. observatories. In the 1840s, U.S.
Trudy E. Bell
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Population, culture history, and the dynamics of change in European prehistory★
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1085-1101, December 2024.Abstract Despite many attacks on its shortcomings, culture history has remained in practice the dominant framework for describing and interpreting European prehistory. It has gained even more salience in recent years because the new information coming from ancient DNA about the genetic ancestry of individuals in prehistory seems to show that this ...
Stephen Shennan
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Alexandre de Humboldt et la pasigraphie en géologie
Cahiers François Viète, 2015 Alexander de Humboldt is certainly not the person to whom we refer in the history of geological cartography. However, unable to make geological maps in the South American llanos, he became interested in the vertical graphic representation of lithological
Mireille Gayet
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Interdisciplinarité ou mélange des genres en histoire des sciences ?
Cahiers François Viète, 2020 This paper develops methodological reflections based on my own practice of the history of science, without claiming them as a model. Following a brief historical sketch of the institutionalisation process of the history of science and its oscillation ...
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
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