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“Seen Again”: Ethnography, Immersive Technologies, and Temporality in the Siberian Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 film as promising fieldwork tools for addressing problematic temporalities in ethnographic museums and for collaborating with communities of origin. Focusing on the Maria Czaplicka Siberian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, we examine how previous methods of display marginalized the
Anya Gleizer, Jaanika Vider, Pablo Fernández Velasco   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic inequality is fueled by population scale, land-limited production, and settlement hierarchies across the archaeological record. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Kohler TA, Bogaard A, Ortman SG, Crema ER, Chirikure S, Cruz P, Green A, Kerig T, McCoy MD, Munson J, Petrie C, Thompson AE, Birch J, Cervantes Quequezana G, Feinman GM, Fochesato M, Gronenborn D, Hamerow H, Jin G, Lawrence D, Roscoe PB, Rosenstock E, Erny GK, Kim H, Ohlrau R, Hanson JW, Fargher Navarro L, Pailes M.   +27 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The NAGPRA Decision‐Making Process and Praxis: A Case Study of the New Mexico State University Museum

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examined the decision‐making process and practice of a small academic museum as it strived to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Using the New Mexico State University Museum as a case study, it explores key questions related to NAGPRA compliance: How did the NMSU Museum determine that ...
Fumi Arakawa, Stanley Berryman
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence of neolithic cannibalism among farming communities at El Mirador cave, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Saladié P, Marginedas F, Morales JI, Vergès JM, Allué E, Expósito I, Lozano M, Martín P, Iglesias-Bexiga J, Fontanals M, Marsal R, Hernando R, Burguet-Coca A, Rodríguez-Hidalgo A.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

FIRST EVIDENCE OF LOST‐WAX CASTING IN THE EARLIER BRONZE AGE OF SOUTH‐EASTERN SPAIN: THE SILVER BANGLE FROM EL ARGAR, GRAVE 292

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 50-67, February 2026.
Summary In 1884, one of the burials discovered at El Argar, the eponymous site of the El Argar culture, revealed the remains of a woman wearing an unusual silver bangle. This ornament appears to be the first evidence of a silver object produced by lost‐wax casting in Bronze Age Iberia and, to date, in Western Europe.
Linda Boutoille
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape of fear: indirect effects of conflict can account for large-scale population declines in non-state societies. [PDF]

J R Soc Interface
Kondor D, Bennett JS, Gronenborn D, Turchin P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

BURIED ORNAMENTS: EXPLORING FUNERARY BEHAVIOURS IN THE CHALCOLITHIC FROM THE LOWER DANUBE

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 2-27, February 2026.
Summary This article focuses on personal adornments found in Chalcolithic funerary contexts from the Lower Danube. Generally, these artefacts are made from exotic raw materials originating from the Mediterranean sea, particularly Spondylus shells, along with Glycymeris or Antalis shells, and less frequently from local materials.
Monica Mărgărit
wiley   +1 more source

Intracranial volume variation in Chinchorro mummies: a comparative study with pre-hispanic farmers and contemporary Chilean populations. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Rojas-Costa GM, Silva-Pinto V, Valenzuela Y, de la Iglesia-Vayá M, Molina-Mateo J, Salazar-García DC, Valdes-Sosa PA, Gálvez M.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

GATHERING THE HARVEST: THE COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE IN ROMAN CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 68-92, February 2026.
Summary When Rome colonized Britain, it created a transport network spanning the province. This transformed the Iron Age economy, creating large new markets which in turn supported specialized manufacturing. This article explores the impact of transportation on Roman agriculture – the core of the Romano‐British economy.
Rob Wiseman, with contributions by Rachel Fosberry, Martha Craven   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Hominin Air Sac Loss in Light of Phylogenetically Meaningful Evidence. [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
Ekström AG, Karakostis FA, Snyder WD, Moran S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source