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A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin. [PDF]

Nat Hum Behav
Fibiger L, Iraeta-Orbegozo M, Koledin J, Laffoon JE, Makarewicz CA, Mylopotamitaki D, Bruyere C, Booth T, Bronk Ramsey C, Layfield R, Anchieri L, Huang Y, Kjær Knudsen A, Niemann J, Radmanović D, Oldham NJ, Shaw B, Tracy S, Nylund S, Daly JS, Winter-Schuh C, van Acken D, Ringbauer H, Mittnik A, Ramos-Madrigal J, Schroeder H, Molloy B.   +26 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling bast fiber production in Upper Paleolithic North China: Microfibers and usewear traces on stone tools from Shizitan. [PDF]

PLoS One
Liu L, He Y, Cohen D, Chen X, Shi J, Song Y.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Dietary perspectives on social asymmetry in a full Iron Age community of northern Italy: stable isotope evidence from the Patavine CUS-Piovego necropolis. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Capasso G, Prillo VG, Beck de Lotto MA, Lugli F, Butler CO, Nederbragt AJ, Nava A, Bondioli L, Gigante M, Vidale M, Leonardi G, Madgwick R.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya Affinités morphologiques du crâne fossile de Kabua (Kenya)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of the origins of Homo sapiens is limited, in part, by the fragmented fossil record from Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Africa. Here, we re‐examine the Kabua 1 cranium, an enigmatic and little‐studied Kenyan fossil discovered in the 1950s. We compare virtual reconstructions created previously by our team with a wide range
Abel Marinus Bosman, Laura Tabitha Buck, Hugo Reyes‐Centeno, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Chris Stringer, Rainer Grün, Qingfeng Shao, Katerina Harvati   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climatic mechanisms underlying a southwestern French Neanderthal refugium at the onset of the last glaciation. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Sánchez Goñi MF, d'Errico F.
europepmc   +1 more source

The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece Le rôle du Bassin méditerranéen oriental dans l’évolution humaine : résultats récents en Grèce

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient Genomics Reveals the Origin, Dispersal, and Human Management of East Asian Domestic Pigs. [PDF]

Mol Biol Evol
Han Y, Zhao Z, Stanton DWG, Lei XL, Wu Z, Liu Y, Yu C, Chen X, Li W, Wang J, You Y, Li Y, Lei S, Yi H, Fan W, Cai Q, Min R, Hu C, Chen C, Cui Y, Guo J, Zhang H, Song H, Guo X, Ruan Q, Tan Y, Li Z, Zhang X, Shi X, Zhou X, Zhuang Y, Manin A, Frantz LAF, Alves JM, Pan Y, Wu X, Luo SJ, Larson G, Yu H.   +38 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source