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From Optimism to Opportunity: New Perspectives on the Osteological Paradox. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
McFadden C, Anderson A, Biehler-Gomez L, Brown R, Marklein KE, Sammut S, Wyatt B, Yaussy SL.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Vital events, vital relations: the structure of relations in an identity database Événements vitaux, liens vitaux : la structure des liens dans une base de données d'identité civile

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
wiley   +1 more source

Human Evolution in Backwaters, Satellites, and Republics: How Political Change Impacts Paleoanthropology in a Shifting Landscape of Winners and Losers. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Glantz M, Radovčić D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic. [PDF]

Nature
Marsh WA, Scarsbrook L, Yüncü E, Hodgson L, Lin AT, De Iorio M, Thalmann O, Thomas MG, Goor M, Bergström A, Noseda A, Amiri S, Biglari F, Borić D, Bougiouri K, Carmagnini A, Giannì M, Higham T, Lebrasseur O, Linderholm A, Mannino MA, Middleton C, Mustafaoğlu G, Perri A, Peters J, Richards M, Sarıtaş Ö, Skoglund P, Stevens RE, Stringer C, Tabbada K, Talbot HM, Van der Sluis LG, Bello SM, Dimitrijevic V, Martin L, Mashkour M, Parfitt SA, Vukovic S, Brace S, Craig OE, Baird D, Charlton S, Larson G, Barnes I, Frantz LAF.   +45 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
wiley   +1 more source

Holocene Nile dynamics shaped the physical and cultural landscape of ancient Nubia. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Peeters J, Winkels TG, Wolf P, Skuldbøl TBB, Chamberlain EL, Büchner-Matthews S, Elamin SM, Mohamed EA, Emberling G.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gough's Cave and biomolecular archaeology: a story of evolving interpretation Archéologie biomoléculaire à la grotte de Gough's Cave : une interprétation en constante évolution

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Gough's Cave is a key archaeological site that has been at heart of British archaeology for the past century. Professor Chris Stringer, whom this special issue honours, has been a key figure in excavations and research projects at the site for many decades.
William A. Marsh
wiley   +1 more source

Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland. [PDF]

Commun Biol
Fraser M, Sanchez-Quinto F, Kırdök E, Ausmees K, Kılınç GM, Larena M, Correa-Mendoza L, Le Meur A, Blanchet A, Bergfeldt N, Arrieta-Donato E, Escobar-Rodríguez M, Götherström A, Lozano-Gonzalez K, Aguilar-Ordoñez I, Malmström H, Knutsson K, Wallin P, Rascovan N, Storå J, Jakobsson M.   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source