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Power in Cultural Evolution and the Spread of Prosocial Norms [PDF]

, 2018
According to cultural evolutionary theory in the tradition of Boyd and Richerson, cultural evolution is driven by individuals' learning biases, natural selection, and random forces.
Cofnas, Nathan
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AI For Whom? Participation, Power and Educational Pathways in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT For four decades, discourses on digital divides have shaped engagement with societal transformation processes in the context of digitality. With the rapid development of AI technologies, these disparities are manifesting in an emerging “AI Divide” that not only reproduces existing social inequalities but potentially amplifies them.
Daniel Autenrieth, Jan‐René Schluchter, Lea Schulz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quartz workshop of the Stone Age "Pereboiny" on the Seversky Donets (Rostov region) [PDF]

Cultural Heritage and Modern Technologies
A new object of archaeological heritage – the Pereboiny quartzite workshop, was identified in the Kamensk district of the Rostov region on the left bank of the Seversky Donets River, on a high root terrace, not far from the famous Kalitvensky quartzite ...
Zorov Yu.N., Kolesnik A.V., Danilchenko A.Yu.   +2 more
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Black in Impressionism and Post‐Impressionism: Art, Color Vision, and Psychophysics

Color Research &Application, Volume 51, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
Black has engendered controversy in 19th Century color theory and in Impressionist and Post‐Impresssionist painting. The neural mechanisms of blackness perception are being revealed through contemporary psychophysics. ABSTRACT From Paleolithic cave art to modern abstraction, artists have used black not merely as a neutral tone, but as a powerful ...
John S. Werner
wiley   +1 more source

Technology and taphonomy of the Middle Paleolithic assemblage from the Uzun Mera site in Macedonia

Quaternary Environments and Humans
The open-air site of Uzun Mera in eastern North Macedonia provides new insights into Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal behaviour and site formation processes in the understudied Balkan Peninsula.
Darko Stojanovski, Gabriele L.F. Berruti, Marta Arzarello, Sarah A. Lacy, Trajche Nacev, Aleksandar Danev   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

New research on the Middle Paleolithic of the Middle Prut Basin

Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021
In 2015– 2017 the Prut-Dniester expedition from the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences carried out field research at a number of Paleolithic localities in the middle reaches of the Prut and Dniester in the north-west of Moldova.
Vishnyatsky, L., Burlacu, V.
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"Two tribes": Handaxe shape variation shows distinct regional cultural groups in southeastern Britain between 424 000 and 374 000 BP

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 602-621, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines regional and chronological variations in Acheulean handaxe morphology during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (c. 425–365 ka BP) in Britain. Using a data set of 737 handaxes from 13 securely dated sites in East Anglia and the Thames Valley, we apply three‐dimensional geometric morphometric analysis to examine morphological ...
Mark White, Frederick Foulds, Aaron Rawlinson, Ceri Shipton, Rob Davis, Nick Ashton   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Less-elaborate” bone tools during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic, and its continuity during the Upper Paleolithic. An historiographical review [PDF]

Se presenta una revisión crítica de las evidencias de utillaje en materia ósea a lo largo del Paleolítico inferior y medio en Europa, así como de los denominados útiles “poco elaborados” en el Paleolítico superior y la Prehistoria reciente.
Mozota Holgueras, Millán
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‘Missing persons’: Ancient legacies of human–environment interaction in tropical natural properties inscribed under the 1972 World Heritage Convention

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S2, Page S9-S30, May 2026.
Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
wiley   +1 more source

Stone tool use as an adaptive technology: A meta-analysis of functional estimates on use-wear traces from early, middle, and late Upper Paleolithic industries in the northeastern Japanese Archipelago

Quaternary Environments and Humans
Since the 1980s, the development of experimental traceological studies has enabled archaeologists to estimate the intended use of Paleolithic stone tools whose functions were unclear.
Akira Iwase
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