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Phonographic Recordings in Finno‐Ugric Languages in Finnish Archives

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review discusses audio recordings made by Finnish scholars among the Russian Arctic people in the early twentieth century and stored in various archives in Finland. The background of the recordings, together with their broader meaning and the possibilities for research they offer, is brought out.
Karina Lukin
wiley   +1 more source

Early humans and the balance of power: Homo habilis as prey

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.
The traditional view regarding Homo habilis as the primary agent in stone‐tool making and animal butchery has long shaped our understanding of human evolution. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) methods have provided unprecedented insights into carnivore–hominin interactions through the analysis of bone surface modifications (BSMs).
Marina Vegara‐Riquelme   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnoarchaeological research in Tierra del Fuego (1986-2006): thoughts for european prehistoric archaeology

open access: diamond, 2007
Assumpció Vila   +10 more
openalex   +2 more sources

‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.
Summary For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas (c. 320 BC) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’.
Patrick Sims‐Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Beyond the Standard: Informal Measurement Systems as Cognitive Technologies

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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