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Positive sentiment and expertise predict the diffusion of archaeological content on social media. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Bonacchi C, Krzyzanska M, Acerbi A.
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Changes in agglomeration and productivity are poor predictors of inequality across the archaeological record. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Ortman SG, Bogaard A, Munson J, Lawrence D, Green AS, Feinman GM, Chirikure S, Uhl JH, Leyk S.   +8 more
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Seasonal decomposition and the effect of clothing in Cape Town, South Africa

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Unidentified, unclaimed human remains are a substantial problem in many developing nations, including South Africa. Most forensic cases in Cape Town involve clothed individuals found in thicketed environments. To assist in local medico‐legal death investigations, we gathered taphonomic data on six clothed and four unclothed 60 kg porcine ...
Maximilian J. Spies, Devin A. Finaughty, Louise J. Friedling, Victoria E. Gibbon   +3 more
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Redefining the timing and circumstances of cat domestication, their dispersal trajectories, and the extirpation of European wildcats

Doherty S, Krajcarz M, Carmagnini A, Dimopoulos E, Jamieson A, Alves JM, Bălăşescu A, Baker P, Baranowski P, Beglane F, Bitz-Thorsen J, Bolton A, Bowden W, Britton H, De Cupere B, De Martino M, Donnelly-Symes B, Evin A, Fowler T, Fulford M, Gotfredsen AB, Han Y, Kitchener AC, Knapp Z, Luo S, Mainland I, Maričević D, Moody S, Nesnídalová T, O’Connor T, Orton D, Peters J, Sadebeck F, Siegenthaler A, Smallman R, Sůvová Z, Symmons R, Sudds J, Thomas G, Van Neer W, Wilczyński J, Ottoni C, Popović D, Frantz LA, Larson G, Sykes N.   +45 more
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Earliest evidence of Neanderthal multifunctional bone tool production from cave lion (Panthera spelaea) remains. [PDF]

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Abrams G, Auguste P, Pirson S, De Groote I, Halbrucker É, Di Modica K, Pironneau C, Dedrie T, Meloro C, Fischer V, Bocherens H, Vanbrabant Y, Bray F.   +12 more
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Australian geography’s challenges and community‐based learned societies in its future

Geographical Research, EarlyView.
Geography remains more relevant than ever, yet it faces challenges in Australia. Voluntary, community‐based learned societies like the Royal Geographical Societies of South Australia and Queensland are crucial in promoting geography’s value, advocating for education, fostering research, and engaging the public.
Iain Hay
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Ancient dog mitogenomes support the dual dispersal of dogs and agriculture into South America. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci
Manin A, Debruyne R, Lin A, Lebrasseur O, Dimopoulos EA, González Venanzi L, Charlton S, Scarsbrook L, Hogan A, Linderholm A, Boyko AR, Joncour P, Berón M, González P, Castro JC, Cornero S, Cantarutti G, López Mendoza P, Martínez I, Mendoza España V, Pavlovic D, Prates L, Prevosti F, Rogan J, Oyaneder A, Power X, deFrance S, Wylde M, Gutierrez B, Grouard S, Freiwald C, Awe JJ, Ebert CE, Hoggarth JA, Equihua JC, Pereira G, Parker H, Lefèvre C, Goepfert N, Ostrander E, Larson G, Frantz L, Hitte C, Ollivier M.   +43 more
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Validating a Target‐Enrichment Design for Capturing Uniparental Haplotypes in Ancient Domesticated Animals

Molecular Ecology Resources, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last three decades, DNA sequencing of ancient animal osteological assemblages has become an important tool complementing standard archaeozoological approaches to reconstruct the history of animal domestication. However, osteological assemblages of key archaeological contexts are not always available or do not necessarily preserve enough
Kuldeep D. More, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Jaime Lira Garrido, Andaine Seguin‐Orlando, Emmanuel Discamps, Oscar Estrada, Laure Tonasso‐Calvière, Loreleï Chauvey, Gaëtan Tressières, Stéphanie Schiavinato, Morgane Gibert, Horacio Padula, Horacio Chiavazza, Pablo M. Fernández, Nicolás M. Guardia, Caroline Borges, Stéphane Bertani, Juan Contreras‐Mancilla, Diana Allccarima‐Crisóstomo, Miguel Fhon, Eric Barrey, Léa Charliquart, Emilie Robbe, Thibault de Noblet, Rinat Zhumatayev, Samat Shakenov, Emmanuelle Vila, Rémi Berthon, Marjan Mashkour, Roya Khazaeli, Ahmad Nikgoftar, Ali A. Vahdati, Pavel Kosintsev, Jean‐Luc Houle, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Jaroslaw Wilczynski, Magdalena Moskal‐del Hoyo, Marek Nowak, William Taylor, Adrian Bălășescu, Roxana Dobrescu, Norbert Benecke, Benjamin Arbuckle, Sharon Steadman, Gregory McMahon, Petra Rajić Šikanjić, Marcel Buric, Tajana Trbojević Vukičević, Nadir Alvarez, Jean‐Christophe Castel, Myriam Boudadi‐Maligne, Bastiaan Star, Julian Robert Post‐Melbye, Christian Løchsen Rødsrud, David W. G. Stanton, Sophy Charlton, Victoria E. Mullin, Kevin G. Daly, Nohemi Sala Burgos, Adrian Pablos, Love Dalen, Daniel G. Bradley, Laurent Frantz, Greger Larson, Ludovic Orlando   +64 more
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