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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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How climate, Indigenous people, and fire shaped Brazil's Araucaria Forests through the Late Holocene. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Wilson OJ, Cárdenas ML, Latorre C, Behling H, Davies CA, Iriarte J, Mayle FE.   +6 more
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Genomic history of early dogs in Europe. [PDF]

Nature
Bergström A, Furtwängler A, Johnston S, Rosengren E, Breidenstein A, Booth T, McCabe JB, Peto J, Williams M, Kelly M, Tait F, Baumann C, Radzeviciute R, Barrington C, Anastasiadou K, Gilardet A, Glocke I, Sherman M, Brativnyk A, Herbig A, Prüfer K, Pfrengle S, Gretzinger J, Feuerborn TR, Reiter E, Linderholm A, Charlton S, Racimo F, Mikkola L, Anderson-Whymark H, Baird D, Gotfredsen AB, Bocherens H, Bridault A, Brocke R, Drucker DG, Fairbairn AS, Frantz L, Gasparyan B, Giemsch L, Germonpré M, Janssens L, Kandel AW, Kjær K, Lázničková-Galetová M, Loponte D, Magnell O, Martin L, Münzel SC, Mustafaoğlu G, Måge B, Perri A, Pfenninger F, Roblíčková M, Roman-Binois A, Sarıtaş Ö, Schäppi K, Sheridan JA, Sjögren KG, Storå J, Sørensen LV, Tafelmaier Y, Ter-Nedden F, Thalmann O, Larson G, Schuenemann VJ, Krause J, Skoglund P.   +67 more
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Archaeology: The Impact of the Natural Sciences on Archaeology. London [PDF]

American Anthropologist, 1973
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‘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

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
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Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Furtwängler A, Rebay-Salisbury K, Neumann GU, Kanz F, Ringbauer H, Bianco RA, Schmidt T, Semerau L, Radzevičiūtė R, Barquera R, Rohland N, Stewardson K, Workman JN, Curtis E, Zalzala F, Callan K, Iliev L, Qiu L, Cheronet O, Wagner A, Bravo Morante G, Spannagel M, Teschler-Nicola M, Novotny F, Verdianu D, Pinhasi R, Reich D, Krause J, Stockhammer PW, Mittnik A.   +29 more
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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
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Human Evolution in Backwaters, Satellites, and Republics: How Political Change Impacts Paleoanthropology in a Shifting Landscape of Winners and Losers. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Glantz M, Radovčić D.
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