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A proof of concept for machine learning-based virtual knapping using neural networks

Scientific Reports, 2021
Prehistoric stone tools are an important source of evidence for the study of human behavioural and cognitive evolution. Archaeologists use insights from the experimental replication of lithics to understand phenomena such as the behaviours and cognitive ...
Jordy Didier Orellana Figueroa, Jonathan Scott Reeves, Shannon P. McPherron, Claudio Tennie   +3 more
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A Geographical Dataset Describing the Complexity of the Gor River Megalithic Landscape

Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 2023
This paper presents the data that have served as the basis for the study of the spatial patterns of the megaliths of the Gor River Valley (Granada, Spain) as part of a PhD dissertation presented in July 2023 at the University of Granada. This complex, of
Carolina Cabrero González, Juan Antonio Cámara, Francisco Javier Esquivel, Liliana Spanedda, Antonio Garrido Almonacid   +4 more
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Problems with two recent Petri net analyses of Neanderthal adhesive technology [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Patrick Schmidt, Claudio Tennie
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Redefining the role of metal production during the Bronze Age of south-eastern Iberia. The mines of eastern Sierra Morena

Documenta Praehistorica, 2018
Researchers have traditionally paid little attention to mining by Bronze Age communities in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula. This has changed recently due to the identification of new mineral exploitations from this period during the archaeo ...
Luis Arboledas-Martínez, Eva Alarcón-García   +1 more
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'Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose'?

Documenta Praehistorica, 2023
An evolutionary approach on the study of the funerary systems in Late Prehistory allows recognizing diverse contexts of social crises in the north of Iberia. The analysis of the radio-chronological data that we have compiled indicates five phases of use—
Alfonso Alday-Ruiz, Ander Rodríguez-Lejarza, Juan Carlos Mejías-García   +2 more
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Sound archaeology: terminology, Palaeolithic cave art and the soundscape [PDF]

, 2014
This article is focused on the ways that terminology describing the study of music and sound within archaeology has changed over time, and how this reflects developing methodologies, exploring the expectations and issues raised by the use of differing ...
Arias P., Attali J., Attali J., Babbit M., Bahn P., Barrett J., Blesser B., Cage J., Chernoff J. M., Chion M., Cresswell T., Cross I., Dauvois M., Ehrenreich B., Frith S., Hickmann E., Kassabian A., Kerman J., Lund C., Lund C., Lund C., McClary S., Moberg C.-A., Murray Schafer R., Nettl B., Ontañón R., Pedelty M., Pettitt P., Reznikoff I., Rindel J. H., Rupert Till, Russolo L., Scarre C., Scruton R., Subotnik R. R., Subotnik R. R., Till R., Till R., Truax B., Tuan Y.-F., Watson A., Watson A.   +41 more
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Songs of the Stones: An Investigation into the Acoustic History and Culture of Stonehenge

IASPM Journal, 2010
This paper investigates the acoustic culture of Stonehenge, an iconic British prehistoric stone circle. It addresses references to the structure within popular music culture, as well as Thomas Hardy’s discussion of the site.
Rupert Till
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A new method for birch tar making with materials available in the Stone Age

Scientific Reports, 2022
The use of birch tar can be traced back to the European Middle Palaeolithic and is relevant for our understanding of the technical skills and cognitive abilities of Neanderthals.
Tabea J. Koch, Patrick Schmidt
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A Prehistory of n-Categorical Physics

, 2008
This paper traces the growing role of categories and n-categories in physics, starting with groups and their role in relativity, and leading up to more sophisticated concepts which manifest themselves in Feynman diagrams, spin networks, string theory ...
Baez, John C., Lauda, Aaron
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Past practices: rethinking individuals and agents in archaeology [PDF]

, 2008
Archaeologists who seek to examine people's roles in past societies have long assumed, consciously or unconsciously, the existence of individuals. In this study, we explore various concepts and dimensions of ‘the individual’, both ethnographic and ...
Knapp, A.B., van Dommelen, P.
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