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Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains – a review

open access: yesBoreas, 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
wiley   +1 more source

When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 443-461, July 2025.
Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
wiley   +1 more source

Metaverse in Tourism and Hospitality: A Framework‐Based Systematic Review

open access: yesHuman Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
The metaverse is projected to contribute over $3 trillion to the global economy by 2031. Major technology firms, including Unity Technologies, Meta, Epic Games, Valve Corporation, Alphabet, and Roblox, invest billions of dollars in its development. Adopting digital technologies such as mixed reality (MR), virtual reality (VR), extended reality (ER ...
Chiranjeeb Debnath   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Commensal Attraction: Eating Together as a Social Tool

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 556-570, December 2024.
Abstract Social and human sciences have demonstrated again and again how commensality—the practice of eating together—has substantial implications, across time and place, for how social life is configured. Closely related phenomena have also been explored in biologically oriented sciences focused on human behavior.
Nicklas Neuman
wiley   +1 more source

Kyrgyzstan's 'manas' epos millennium celebrations : post-colonial resurgence of Turkic culture and the strategic marketing of cultural tourism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The paper addresses the symbolic nature of the Manas epos and its influence on both the unification of Kyrgyzstan and the enhancement of the country's national and Turkic identity.
Bakieva, Gulnara   +3 more
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‘Good fortune in the camps never lasted’: Gendered experience of carceral labour in the Soviet Union, 1930–1953

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 890-903, October 2024.
Abstract Gendered order in the Soviet camp system shaped women inmates’ experiences of labour and factored in their survival. This article zooms in on the published memoirs of four women political prisoners who survived the Gulag and explores how they experienced and narrated carceral labour.
Zhanna Popova
wiley   +1 more source

Audiovisual research collections and their preservation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The basic problem of primary audio and video research materials is clearly shown by the survey: A great and important part of the entire heritage is still outside archival custody in the narrower sense, scattered over many institutions in fairy small ...
Schüller, Dietrich
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“We Know What War Is”: Veterans, Soldiers, and Military Masculinity in the Soviet “Fight for Peace,” c. 1955–65

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 4, Page 548-572, October 2024.
Abstract The aim of this article is to bring the issue of peace more definitively into the increasingly complex vision we have of the postwar era and to give particular thought to the place of the military man within a society that was now supposedly orientated toward peace.
Claire E. McCallum
wiley   +1 more source

Misc. Pub. 91-1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
I submit herewith the annual report of the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management, University of Alaska Fairbanks, for the period ending December 31,1990. This is done in accordance with an act

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EMAP Soundgate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Soundgate App allows you to interactively explore a number of archaeological sites as they might have looked in the ancient past. As well as seeing what they look like, you can also hear what they sounded like.
Till, Rupert
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