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A Yup'ik dance mask from the early‐1900s connects Indigenous tradition and shorebird conservation
People and NatureA dance mask from the early 1900s reveals connections between Yup'ik people of western Alaska and shorebirds as well as their shared struggle to thrive in the modern world.
Liliana C. Naves
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Land use patterns and climate change—a modeled scenario of the Late Bronze Age in Southern Greece
Environmental Research Letters, 2019 In this study, we present a modeling approach that investigates how much cultivable land was required to supply a society and whether societies were in need when environmental conditions deteriorated.
Daniel Knitter +8 more
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Intraspecific variation of cochlear morphology in bowhead and beluga whales
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The bony labyrinth of the petrosal bone, a distinctive feature of mammal skulls, is often identified in micro‐computed tomography imaging to infer species' physiological and ecological traits. When done as part of a comparative study, one individual specimen is normally considered representative of a species, and intraspecific variation is ...
John Peacock, J. G. M. Thewissen
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Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic [PDF]
, 2017 Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which ...
Clark, Douglas A. +3 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Walruses have been an important subsistence and cultural resource for humans and have been exploited for millennia across their distribution. This exploitation has contributed to severe declines in several populations and local extirpations.
Katrien Dierickx +6 more
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International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2021 Low intake of fruits and vegetables and high intake of sugar-sweetened beverages persists as a public health concern in rural remote Alaska Native (AN) communities.
Kathryn R. Koller +8 more
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Le service civique au service de l’insertion des jeunes Réunionnais·es ?
La Nouvelle Revue du Travail, 2023 The French Civic service, a voluntary work status, has been widely promoted on Réunion Island since its inception. It is part of a particular employment situation: the unemployment rate is very high, especially among young people, who are encouraged to ...
Florence Ihaddadene
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Violence and warfare in prehistoric Japan [PDF]
, 2017 The origins and consequences of warfare or largescale intergroup violence have been subject of long debate. Based on exhaustive surveys of skeletal remains for prehistoric hunter-gatherers and agriculturists in Japan, the present study examines levels of
Arimatsu, Yui +5 more
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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Shell middens in Gippsland along the eastern half of Victoria's coastline have usually been characterised as small, short‐duration camp sites with relatively low shell densities and low taxonomic diversity. Here we present new excavation results from a dense, high‐diversity site at Red Bluff near the eastern end of GunaiKurnai Country, a ...
Patrick Faulkner +17 more
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The Economic and Ecological Impact of Dairy Production in Alpine Prehistory: A Numerical Approach
Journal of Computer Applications in ArchaeologyThe dairy industry has played a central role in the economy of the Alps for many centuries, and archaeological evidence suggests a prehistoric origin for this practice.
Francesco Carrer
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