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

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
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
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Holocene climate oscillations, seismotectonic events and human–environmental interactions reconstructed from the Giannades palaeolake on Corfu (Eastern Mediterranean, Greece)

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 316-332, February 2026.
ABSTRACT The Mediterranean is particularly sensitive to rapid climate changes (RCCs) during the Holocene. An increasing number of natural climate archives revealed that socio‐economic developments were influenced by such RCCs since the Palaeolithic. However, multi‐millennial and high‐resolution archives are still rare and often located in mountainous ...
Esra Reichert, Peter Fischer, Bernd Zolitschka, Tina Georg, Lea Obrocki, Denis Scholz, Katja Sporn, Andreas Vött   +7 more
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The contribution of citizens to threatened plant conservation

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract There is growing recognition of the importance of citizens in biodiversity conservation, particularly in the Mediterranean Basin—a global biodiversity hotspot and cradle of several civilizations—where human actions have influenced the introduction, extinction, and relocation of plant species, determining their current distribution.
Giuseppe Fenu, Giulia Calderisi, Donatella Cogoni   +2 more
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Geoarchaeological Investigation of Early Neolithic Lagoonal Fringe Landscapes in the Netherlands

Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT Coastal wetlands have historically been portrayed as too marginal for early crop cultivation during the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition due to their dynamic hydrology, low elevation, and poor drainage. However, growing evidence suggests that these environments played a crucial role in the spread of agriculture. We examined buried and submerged
Elena Familetto, Kim Cohen, Kim de Wit, Bertil van Os, Wim Hoek, Hans Huisman   +5 more
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Stone inventory discovered at a Mesolithic site in the North of Western Siberia

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2018
In this article, we investigate a stone inventory from a newly-discovered Mesolithic site. This site is located by the Salym River on the territory of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
Serikov Yu.В. , Balueva Y.V., Konovalenko M.V.   +2 more
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Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains – a review

Boreas, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 4-28, January 2026.
The Ural Mountains are of fundamental importance for studying early human migrations along the geographical limits between Europe and Asia. Geological processes and past climates gave rise to numerous caves, mostly in Palaeozoic carbonate formations.
Jiri Chlachula
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Mesolithic Research in Sweden 1986-1990

Current Swedish Archaeology, 1995
The Mesolithic research in Sweden in the time period 1986-1990 is characterized as a whole by a processual epistemology and with an emphasis on interpreting finds rather than building theory.
Kjell Knutsson
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Mesolithic Cultures of Ustyurt and Kyzylkum

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Archaeologica
The article explores the history of archaeological research on the Mesolithic sites of Ustyurt and Kizilkum and the potential for revising existing archaeological materials, as well as advancing the study of the Mesolithic period in Uzbekistan to a ...
Berik Madreymov
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Traces de vie des derniers chasseurs-cueilleurs mésolithiques

Archéopages, 2012
Recent advances in our understanding of the Mesolithic are due in large part to the growth of development-led archaeology, which has increased our knowledge in certain respects, among which the alluvial environment.
Frédéric Séara
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