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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Technological Responses of Neanderthals to Macroclimatic Variations (240,000–40,000 BP) [PDF]

, 2009
Using a database of 499 archaeological assemblages from 332 sites in Europe, we statistically test a model of the economic reactivity of the hunter-gatherer production system to climatic variations.
Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre, Tuffreau, Alain   +1 more
core   +3 more sources

New Data from Shovakh Cave and Its Implications for Reconstructing Middle Paleolithic Settlement Patterns in the Amud Drainage, Israel

Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2019
This study presents the geoarchaeological and geochronological aspects of Shovakh Cave and the first comparative context to the nearby Amud Cave (~ 500 m downstream), providing an exceptional opportunity to explore the range of human behaviours within a ...
David E. Friesem, A. Malinsky-Buller, R. Ekshtain, S. Gur-Arieh, A. Vaks, N. Mercier, M. Richard, G. Guérin, H. Valladas, François Auger, E. Hovers   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Redating shuidonggou locality 1 and implications for the initial upper paleolithic in east asia [PDF]

, 2014
A review of recently published temporal data from Shuidonggou Locality 1 indicates that a 40-43 cal ka date for the inception of Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) blade-oriented technologies in East Asia is warranted.
Barton, L, Bettinger, RL, Gao, X, Morgan, C, Peng, F, Yi, M   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Lake-Level Changes and Their Paleo-Climatic Implications at the MIS12 Lower Paleolithic (Middle Pleistocene) Site Marathousa 1, Greece [PDF]

, 2021
Ines J.E. Bludau, Πηνελόπη Παπαδοπούλου, George Iliopoulos, Max Weiss, Ellen Schnabel, Nicholas Thompson, Vangelis Tourloukis, Charlotte Zachow, Styliani Kyrikou, George E. Konidaris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati, Annett Junginger   +13 more
openalex   +1 more source

‘Missing persons’: Ancient legacies of human–environment interaction in tropical natural properties inscribed under the 1972 World Heritage Convention

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
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

Aminocronología de los depósitos del Pleistoceno Medio de Redueña(Madrid) [PDF]

, 1995
This paper deals with Reduefia alluvial fan deposits amino acid (aspartic acidandleucine) racemization dating. Reduefia deposits and faunal and archaeological Middle Paleolithic remains can be correlated with the 8th oxigen episode (ca.
Torres Pérez-Hidalgo, Trinidad José
core   +1 more source

Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

, 2015
We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000-3,000 years ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost four hundred thousand polymorphisms. Enrichment of these positions decreases the sequencing required for
A Keller, A Seguin-Orlando, Alan Cooper, Aleksandr Khokhlov, Alissa Mittnik, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, AW Briggs, AW Briggs, Bastien Llamas, C Der Sarkissian, C Gamba, C Renfrew, Christina Roth, Christos Economou, D Reich, David Anthony, David Reich, DH Alexander, DH Alexander, DM Behar, Dorcas Brown, DW Anthony, Eadaoin Harney, Eszter Bánffy, Fredrik Hallgren, G Brandt, G Hellenthal, Guido Brandt, H Li, Harald Meller, I Lazaridis, I Olalde, Iosif Lazaridis, J Czebreszuk, Joachim Wahl, Johannes Krause, JP Mallory, Kristin Stewardson, Kurt Werner Alt, M Kircher, M Lipson, M Meyer, M Raghavan, Manuel A. Rojo Guerra, Matthias Meyer, Michael Francken, Michael Kunst, N Patterson, N Rohland, N Rohland, N Rohland, Nadin Rohland, Nick Patterson, Nicole Nicklisch, NM Myres, Oleg Mochalov, P Bellwood, P Ralph, P Skoglund, P Skoglund, P Skoglund, PA Underhill, Pavel Kuznetsov, Q Fu, Q Fu, Q Fu, Qiaomei Fu, Rafael Garrido Pena, RE Green, Roberto Risch, S Purcell, S Sawyer, Sandra L. Pichler, Susanne Friederich, Susanne Nordenfelt, Swapan Mallick, T Lassmann, TV Gamkrelidze, Valery Khartanovich, Vayacheslav Moiseyev, W Haak, Wolfgang Haak   +81 more
core   +2 more sources

Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski, Amanuel Beyin, Justin Pargeter   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source