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

Annals 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, Enrique Baquedano, Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diverse feasting networks at the end of the Bronze Age in Britain (c. 900-500 BCE) evidenced by multi-isotope analysis. [PDF]

iScience
Esposito C, Lamb AL, Andersen MB, Millet MA, Inglis E, Lugli F, Nederbragt AJ, Madgwick R.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Speech Repression and Threat Narratives in Politics: Social Goals and Cognitive Foundations

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.
Why do political activists repress speech, especially to protect simplistic ideological narratives? I argue that speech repression stems from at least three key motivations: hypersensitivity to social threats, desires to maintain mobilizations through information control, and status‐seeking through loyalty signaling.
Antoine Marie
wiley   +1 more source

Introducing the Special Feature on housing differences and inequality over the very long term. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Kohler TA, Bogaard A, Ortman SG.
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, EarlyView.
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

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

A genealogy of fish women and other imagined identities: “The mechanics of fluids” in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Fluidity invigorates a utopian home in Chinese Canadian author Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl (2002). In the novel, the fishlike lesbian couple cyclically returns to their aquatic habitat between mortal reincarnations: from last‐century colonial South China to near‐future bio‐capitalistic Canada, where they recurrently experience displacement ...
Qianyi Ma
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

Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality.
Rasmus Vangshardt
wiley   +1 more source

Author Correction: Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Palaeolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Higgins OA, Modi A, Cannariato C, Diroma MA, Lugli F, Ricci S, Zaro V, Vai S, Vazzana A, Romandini M, Yu H, Boschin F, Magnone L, Rossini M, Di Domenico G, Baruffaldi F, Oxilia G, Bortolini E, Dellù E, Moroni A, Ronchitelli A, Talamo S, Müller W, Calattini M, Nava A, Posth C, Lari M, Bondioli L, Benazzi S, Caramelli D.   +29 more
europepmc   +1 more source