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A freshwater diet-derived C-14 reservoir effect at the Stone Age sites in the Iron Gates gorge [PDF]

, 2001
Human bones from single inhumation burials and artifacts made from terrestrial mammal (ungulate) bone found in direct association with the skeletons were obtained from the Stone Age site of Schela Cladovei situated just below the iron Gates Gorge of the ...
Bonsall, C., Boronean, V., Cook, G.T., Hedges, R.E.M., McSweeney, K., Pettitt, P.B.   +5 more
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Ontological polyglossia: the art of communicating in opacity* Polyglossie ontologique : l'art de communiquer dans l'opacité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 293-312, March 2026.
What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
wiley   +1 more source

Bricks and urbanism in the Indus Valley rise and decline [PDF]

, 2014
The Indus Civilization, often denoted by its major city Harappa, spanned almost two millennia from 3200 to 1300 BC. Its tradition reaches back to 7000 BC: a 5000 year long expansion of villages and towns, of trading activity, and of technological ...
Khan, Aurangzeb, Lemmen, Carsten
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Measuring up: an afterword

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 159-166, March 2026.
Abstract Towards the end of their Introduction, the editors of this special issue suggest that a principal challenge in ethnographic description is ‘how to measure the measures of others’. It is their own measure of persons, say, or of transactions, on which anthropologists frequently draw in adjudicating social phenomena, not least when characterizing
Marilyn Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Nightmare egalitarianism: Commensuration, autonomy, and imagination Le cauchemar de l’égalitarisme : commensuration, autonomie et imagination

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 7-27, March 2026.
Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron, Florian Mühlfried, Hans Steinmüller   +2 more
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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, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
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
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Harmony or Disharmony? The Effect of Organized Industrial Zones on Urban Development/Growth: The Case of Bursa

Growth and Change, Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The historical timing and spatial configuration of industrialization shape urban development. While early industrial cities such as Manchester and Chicago integrated industrial districts into their metropolitan form during the initial stages of urban growth, cities like Bursa encountered industrialization later, producing distinct spatial ...
Merve Dilman Gokkaya, Yalcin Yildirim
wiley   +1 more source

Lasting Lower Rhine-Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion. [PDF]

Nature
Olalde I, Altena E, Bourgeois Q, Fokkens H, Amkreutz L, Baetsen S, Deguilloux MF, Fichera A, Flas D, Gandini F, Kegler JF, Kootker LM, van der Leije J, Leijnse K, van der Linde C, Kooijmans LL, Lauwerier R, Miller R, Molthof H, Noiret P, Raemaekers DCM, Rivollat M, Smits L, Stewart JR, Ten Anscher T, Toussaint M, Callan K, Cheronet O, Frost T, Iliev L, Mah M, Micco A, Oppenheimer J, Patterson I, Qiu L, Soos G, Workman JN, Edwards CJ, Lazaridis I, Mallick S, Patterson N, Rohland N, Richards MB, Pinhasi R, Haak W, Pala M, Reich D.   +46 more
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Author Correction: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands. [PDF]

Nature
Scerri EML, Blinkhorn J, Groucutt HS, Stewart M, Candy I, Allué E, Burguet-Coca A, Currás A, Carleton WC, Lindauer S, Spengler R, Boxleitner K, Asciak G, Colucci M, Gauci R, Hatton A, Kutowsky J, Maier A, Mata-González M, Mifsud N, Niang K, Roberts P, de Giorgio J, Xerri R, Vella NC.   +24 more
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Dietary trends at the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in North-west Europe [PDF]

, 2009
Bartosiewicz, Laszlo, Bonsall, Clive, Cook, Gordon T., McSweeney, Kathleen, Pickard, Catriona   +4 more
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