Boreas, EarlyView.The archaeological sediment sequences analysis from the Wanbei site reveals a predominantly warm and humid climate with a brief cooling phase between 5600 and 5400 a BP, during the Middle Holocene in the middle and lower Huai River valley. Despite the cooling trend, rice remained the dominant crop in mixed farming, while the proportion of millet ...
Weixin Tian +9 more
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The nature of prehistoric obsidian importation to Anir and the development of a 3,000 year old regional picture of obsidian exchange within the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. In A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht [PDF]
, 2004 Glenn R. Summerhayes
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Parenting as contested practice between experts, audiences, and selves: An introduction
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract Interrogating what constitutes “good parenting” captures and reflects multiple debates within and across different societies, milieus, and power constellations. In this Special Issue, Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves, we bring together seven articles and a commentary that tackle how people move through the labyrinth of diverse ...
Heike Drotbohm, Konstanze N'Guessan
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Decoding the Ishango Bone: Unveiling Prehistoric Mathematical Art [PDF]
arXivThe Ishango Bone, discovered in 1950 near the Semliki River in present-day Democratic Republic of Congo and dated to over 24,000 years ago, features a series of 16 grouped numerical notches arranged across three columns. The interpretation of these markings has long been debated, ranging from numerical intention to decorative symbolism.
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Documenta PraehistoricaSystematic investigations of Bronze Age settlements in different regions of western Eurasia have provided new insights into settlement structures, land use, and past mobile lifestyles.
Elke Kaiser +8 more
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Conservation Beyond Consolidation for Prehistoric Monuments: Finding Narratives from Archaeology to Architecture for Scottish Brochs [PDF]
, 2021 C. Liu, Dimitris Theodossopoulos
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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
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Prehistoric alteration of soil in the Lower Rhine Basin, Northwest Germany—archaeological, 14C and geochemical evidence [PDF]
, 2006 Renate Gerlach +4 more
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Goddard: A Prehistoric Village Site on Blue Hill Bay, Maine, Steven L. Cox (dir.), The Maine Archaeological Society, Occasional Publications in Maine Archaeology No. 16, Augusta, 2021, 130 pages + illustrations [PDF]
, 2022 Geneviève Treyvaud
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Exploring craniofacial fluctuating asymmetry in a South African sample
Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.This study investigated craniofacial fluctuating asymmetry (FA) in a contemporary South African sample using micro‐XCT scans. Inter‐landmark distances (ILDs) assessed size variation, while geometric morphometric methods (GMMs) captured shape variation.
Miksha Harripershad +3 more
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