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A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin. [PDF]

Nat Hum Behav
Fibiger L, Iraeta-Orbegozo M, Koledin J, Laffoon JE, Makarewicz CA, Mylopotamitaki D, Bruyere C, Booth T, Bronk Ramsey C, Layfield R, Anchieri L, Huang Y, Kjær Knudsen A, Niemann J, Radmanović D, Oldham NJ, Shaw B, Tracy S, Nylund S, Daly JS, Winter-Schuh C, van Acken D, Ringbauer H, Mittnik A, Ramos-Madrigal J, Schroeder H, Molloy B.   +26 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Living in the Mycelial World

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Author Correction: Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay. [PDF]

Nat Commun
McGrath K, van der Sluis LG, Lefebvre A, Charpentier A, Rodrigues ASL, Álvarez-Fernández E, Baleux F, Berganza E, Chauvière FX, Dachary M, Duarte Matías E, Houmard C, Marín-Arroyo AB, de la Rasilla Vives M, Tapia J, Thil F, Tombret O, Torres-Iglesias L, Speller C, Zazzo A, Pétillon JM.   +20 more
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“Is This Edible Anyway?” The Impact of Culture on the Evolution (and Devolution) of Mushroom Knowledge

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
wiley   +1 more source

What Is the Acheulean? [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
Moncel MH, Cucart-Mora C, Arzarello M, Ashton N, Baena J, Barsky D, de la Torre I, Galanidou N, García-Medrano P, Hertler C, Herzlinger G, Ingicco T, Li H, Ma D, Mosquera M, Ollé A, Pappu S, Pei S, Tian C, Wang W, Bae CJ.   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Avoid Confusion! Does Survival Processing Shape the Spontaneous Use of Learning Strategies for Distinguishing Edible and Poisonous Mushroom Twins?

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunter‐gatherers faced the survival threat of confusing edible mushrooms with their poisonous twins, imposing selection pressure on those who failed to detect subtle visual differences. Grounded in the ancestral priorities framework, which posits that the human mind is adapted to handle prehistoric challenges, we investigated whether humans ...
Roman Abel
wiley   +1 more source

Swearing as a catalyst of technological development. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Benítez-Burraco A, Washmuth N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Spaceborne and spaceborn: Physiological aspects of pregnancy and birth during interplanetary flight

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Crewed interplanetary return missions that are on the planning horizon will take years, more than enough time for initiation and completion of a pregnancy. Pregnancy is viewed as a sequence of processes – fertilization, blastocyst formation, implantation, gastrulation, placentation, organogenesis, gross morphogenesis, birth and neonatal ...
Arun V. Holden
wiley   +1 more source

Antibacterial properties of experimentally produced birch tar and its medicinal affordances in the Pleistocene. [PDF]

PLoS One
Siemssen T, Oludare A, Schemmel M, Puschmann J, Bierenstiel M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The orphaned orchard in Crimea, the dead poets, and the persistence of Ukrainian cultural legacy

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract This essay draws from the author's personal experiences to examine how forgetting and remembering operate in Ukrainian society following the totalitarian era, particularly under the ongoing full‐scale Russian invasion. It draws on ideas from Paul Connerton, Alexander Etkind, and Tamara Hundorova regarding memory and the effects of violence on ...
Julia Buyskykh
wiley   +1 more source