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Egalitarians despite themselves: envy and leadership in Ecuadorian Amazonia Égalitaires malgré eux : envie et leadership en Amazonie équatorienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 28-48, March 2026.
The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
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Disruption, Preference Cascades, Contagion, and the Transition to Agriculture in Northern Europe

Open Archaeology, 2021
The transition to agriculture in northern Europe around 4000 BC presents an unresolved question. Explanations have vacillated between the adoption of Neolithic things and practices by indigenous foragers to the displacement of Mesolithic populations by ...
Bogucki Peter
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Minimal Evidence of Inflammaging in Naturalistic Chimpanzee Populations

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 189, Issue 2, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives Whereas chronic inflammation is a hallmark of aging in many human populations, inflammaging is reduced in groups characterized by frequent physical activity and diets low in processed foods. Since most biomarkers of inflammation require blood sampling, comparative data from our closest primate relatives have been derived from ...
Megan F. Cole, Melissa Emery Thompson, Nicole Thompson González, Eleanor Paskus, Joshua Rukundo, Rebeca Atencia, Alexandra G. Rosati   +6 more
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Anticipatory action and pastoralism in Africa: a synthesis of current challenges, opportunities, and priorities

Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract This article synthesises the current situation vis‐à‐vis the aid modality of anticipatory action in pastoralist settings. Broadly comprising pre‐planned, pre‐financed interventions triggered by early warning systems and aimed at reducing the impacts of crises, anticipatory action has been effective at reducing the impact of shocks in multiple ...
Samuel F. Derbyshire, Nathaniel Jensen, John Mutua, Tahira Mohamed, Puff Mukwaya, Guyo Roba, Susan Njambi‐Szlapka, Sirimon Thomas, George Tsitati, Alan Duncan   +9 more
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O11 Less amount of hours a week of physical activity is associated to alterations of glucose metabolism in children and adolescents from Mendoza, Argentina

Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Diabetes, 2020
Introduction: Sedentism has emerged as an independent risk factor within the pediatric population. It is associated to metabolic syndrome, the alteration of body composition and the decrease of academic performance, but its relationship with glycemic ...
Zelmira Guntsche, Cecilia Miorin, María Julieta Pomilio, Laura Celestino, Federico Breyer, Fernando Saravi   +5 more
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Buried Treasure? Overlooked and Newly Discovered Evolutionary Contributions to Human Brain Diseases

Annals of Neurology, Volume 98, Issue 6, Page 1178-1195, December 2025.
[Color figure can be viewed at www.annalsofneurology.org] Recapitulative schema of different exploratory levels of the evolutionary impact on human neurological diseases. Clinical neuroscience focuses on the mechanisms of brain function, but this approach falls short of insights into how the central nervous system (CNS) evolved, both in health and ...
Nico J. Diederich, Martin Brüne, John S. Allen, Nicole Bender, Emiliano Bruner, Jean‐Pierre Changeux, Corrado Cali, Olga Dolgova, Anne Grünewald, Geneviève Konopka, Peng Jin, Roger Lemon, Gilberto Levy, Pierre Magistretti, Markus J. Rantala, Kathleen S. Rockland, Roger Sullivan, Annie Swanepoel, Toshiki Uchihara, Katrin Amunts, Christopher G. Goetz   +20 more
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Inner Asian Agropastoralism Within the Mongol Empire: Multi‐Proxy Investigations at Sel'Ungur Cave, Kyrgyzstan

Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Agropastoralism has been a widespread subsistence strategy in Central Asia from prehistory to the present. While significant research has aimed at understanding past agropastoral communities in the region, reconstructing a generalized economic model remains challenging due to the complex topographic and ecological conditions, as well as its ...
G. Brancaleoni, S. V. Shnaider, M. Blinnikov, K. Boxleitner, S. M. Mentzer, V. Alekseitseva, S. V. Zhilich, T. Chargynov, S. Alisher kyzy, E. V. Parkhomchuk, R. Spengler, B. Viola, A. I. Krivoshapkin, M. T. Krajcarz   +13 more
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The Climate Fluctuation of the 8.2 ka BP Cooling Event and the Transition into Neolithic Lifeways in North China

Quaternary, 2020
Early Neolithic lifeways in North China, which are marked by a low-level food production economy, population aggregation, and sedentism, thrived just after the period of a climatic cooling event at 8.2 ka.
Chao Zhao
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Ceramic Production at the Khaybar Walled Oasis During the Mid/Late Third–Early Second Millennium BCE: Evidence for a Burnished Ware Horizon in Northwest Arabia

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 108-137, November 2025.
ABSTRACT The knowledge of Early and Middle Bronze Age ceramics in Northwest Arabia remains limited, particularly in the Medina region, due to the scarcity of archaeological contexts dated to the fourth–first half of the second millennium BCE. Recent research in the Khaybar oasis has revealed significant Bronze Age occupation.
Shadi Shabo, Guillaume Charloux, Bruno Depreux, Kévin Guadagnini, Noisette Bec Drelon, Modwene Poulmarc'h, Diaa Albukaai, Munirah AlMushawh, Rémy Crassard   +8 more
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Radiocarbon‐Inferred Population Trajectories for Southeastern Arabia During the Bronze Age

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 24-38, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper builds on previous attempts to estimate radiocarbon‐inferred population trends—although in Arabia, these attempts are few. A probabilistic reconstruction of Bronze Age (3200–1300 cal BC) demographic trends using a new data set of radiocarbon rates from across the Arabian Peninsula (n = 1280) is presented and a subset of dates (n ...
James R. P. McDonald
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