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Australian geography’s challenges and community‐based learned societies in its future
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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The Kigali story, the Singapore model, and rights to the city
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Michael M.J. Fischer
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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+64 more
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ABSTRACT Numerous specimens stored in natural history collections have been involuntarily preserved together with their associated microbiomes. We propose exploiting century‐old soils occasionally found on the roots of herbarium plants to assess the diversity of ancient soil microbial communities originally associated with these plants.
Gianluca Grasso+7 more
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Political uses of the ancient past on social media are predominantly negative and extreme. [PDF]
Bonacchi C, Witte J, Altaweel M.
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wholeskim: Utilising Genome Skims for Taxonomically Annotating Ancient DNA Metagenomes
ABSTRACT Inferring community composition from shotgun sequencing of environmental DNA is highly dependent on the completeness of reference databases used to assign taxonomic information as well as the pipeline used. While the number of complete, fully assembled reference genomes is increasing rapidly, their taxonomic coverage is generally too sparse to
Lucas Elliott+5 more
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Sacrificial animals as evidence for the disintegration of the ritual and music system: A case study of the Zhuolu site (790-410 BC). [PDF]
Yu X+5 more
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Archaeological Geology of Jurash, ʿAsīr Province, Southwestern Saudi Arabia
ABSTRACT The Jurash archaeological site is located on Wādī Bīshah near the city of Khamīs Mushayt in southwestern Saudi Arabia. It has a fort and other remains from the pre‐Islamic period (third century bc to early seventh century ad) and a settlement with two mosques from the Early Islamic period (early seventh to early 11th centuries ad).
James A. Harrell
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A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia. [PDF]
Sanjuán LG+17 more
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ABSTRACT Since 2020, the Saudi‐French Archaeological and Epigraphic Mission to Najrān (MAFSN) has been conducting additional archaeological surveys and small‐scale excavations in the Ḥimā area, providing a wealth of data from different historical periods.
Silvia Lischi+3 more
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