Measuring Beyond the Standard: Informal Measurement Systems as Cognitive Technologies
Abstract This paper explores the role of measurement as a cognitive technology across human history, emphasizing the coexistence of formal and informal measurement systems. While standardized systems dominate contemporary culture and are well documented across large‐scale societies of the past, this manuscript highlights the less explored domain of ...
Roope O. Kaaronen+2 more
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A Perspective on Arkansas Basin and Ozark Highland Prehistory [PDF]
It is, from time to time, valuable to reassess and perhaps shed new light on long-held perspectives. In The \u27Northern Caddoan Area\u27 was not Caddoan, Frank Schambach provides a provocative reinterpretation of the archaeology of the Arkansas Basin ...
Rogers, J. Daniel
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Geographical approach in Prehistoric Archaeology at the turn of the 20th – 21st centuries [PDF]
Olena Smyntyna
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Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Author Correction: Female sex bias in Iberian megalithic societies through bioarchaeology, aDNA and proteomics. [PDF]
Bonilla MD+12 more
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Archaeology of Trants, Montserrat. Part 5. Prehistoric avifauna
Kelley R. Reis, David W. Steadman
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Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries
Short Abstract This article addresses how the lithic and the drift might be reworked as an Anthropocene material outside of a chronostratigraphy. Revisiting the finding of a floating fern fossil at the Hashima mine, we delve into a complex array of Geological imaginaries, and undertake our own speculative work.
Deborah P. Dixon+2 more
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The Archaeological Value of Prehistoric Human Bones
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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The Goss Farm Site (41FN12) on Bois d’Arc Creek, Fannin County, Texas [PDF]
The Goss Farm site (41FN12) is an ancestral Caddo settlement on an alluvial landform on the west side of Bois d’Arc Creek near its confluence with the Red River.
Perttula, Timothy K.
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Sound Archaeology: A Study of the Acoustics of Three World Heritage Sites, Spanish Prehistoric Painted Caves, Stonehenge, and Paphos Theatre [PDF]
Rupert Till
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