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Toward an Ethnography of God

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, anthropologists and theologians have been engaging in conversation with one another. Building on, and branching out from, that conversation, this article calls for a careful ethnographic engagement with not just “God talk” (the literal meaning of theology) but also with the figure of God itself.
Amira Mittermaier
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient genomes reveal the genetic structure and population interaction in the Central Plains of China during the Eastern Zhou Period. [PDF]

Front Microbiol
Wu X, Liu P, Yan F, Jin R, Zhong C, Wang L, Chen K, Yang F, Nie L, Liang J, Zhou Y, Ding B.   +11 more
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Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the persistence of race in biological anthropology, particularly in the context of ancestry estimation using the Fordisc software. Despite efforts to move away from race‐based typologies since the mid‐20th century, historical notions of race continue to shape scientific methods and technologies in anthropology. By tracing
Iris Clever, Lisette Jong
wiley   +1 more source

Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic. [PDF]

PLoS One
Schmidt I, Gehlen B, Winkler K, Arrizabalaga A, Arts N, Bicho N, Crombé P, Eriksen BV, Grimm SB, Kapustka K, Langlais M, Mevel L, Naudinot N, Nerudová Z, Niekus M, Peresani M, Riede F, Sauer F, Schön W, Sobkowiak-Tabaka I, Vandendriessche H, Weber MJ, Zander A, Zimmermann A, Maier A.   +24 more
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The mind & muscles: Introducing a validated EEG/EMG protocol for recording cognitive-muscular interactions in experimental archaeology. [PDF]

PLoS One
Eteson B, Affinito S, Karakostis FA.
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Composing senselessness: Autoethnography after homicide

Anthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.
Abstract Not all narratives create meaning, or create the same kinds of meaning; instead, some stories amplify meaninglessness, which—it is argued—is its own form of sense‐making. This article examines how meaning is formulated through narrative in the absence of a meaningful death, specifically in the context of a motiveless murder.
Jerome Arrow
wiley   +1 more source

Strontium isoscapes for provenance, mobility and migration: the way forward. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Spies MJ, Alblas A, Ambrose SH, Barakat S, Barberena R, Bataille C, Bowen GJ, Britton K, Cawthra H, Diamond R, Dosseto A, Evans JA, Fisher E, Gray K, Heddell-Stevens P, Holt E, James HF, Janzen A, Le Corré M, le Roux P, Lee-Thorp J, Mackay A, McNeill PJ, Montgomery J, Mugabe B, Oelze VM, Pfab M, Richards MP, Samec CT, Santana-Sagredo F, Serna A, Stantis C, Snoeck C, Stewart B, Stuurman C, Tarrant D, West AG, Winter-Schuh C, Sealy J.   +38 more
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Innovation through recycling in Iron Age plaster technology at Tell el-Burak, Lebanon. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Amicone S, Orsingher A, Cantisani E, Calandra S, Badreshany K, Spiteri C, Berthold C, Sader H, Schmitt A, Kamlah J.   +9 more
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The exploitation of silver deposits in early medieval Europe: some documentary, economic and social problems

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on Southern Europe, this article sheds light on the mining landscape of the early Middle Ages. Based on the current state of historical and archaeological knowledge, the article raises a number of questions that can be extended to other European regions.
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
wiley   +1 more source