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Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun: Nuxalk Governance, Language, and the Museum Public

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This review suggests that Nuxalk Strong: Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun reframes the ethnographic gallery as a site of protocol rather than as a trophy case. Co‐curated by Snxakila—Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk Nation) and Jennifer Kramer (UBC MOA), the exhibition centers law, lineage, and language to present belongings and supernatural beings ...
Cheyanne Brown Armstrong, Mark Turin
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Elephant‐Skin‐Inspired Porous Cementitious Tiles with Programmable Crack Networks for Passive Cooling

Advanced Materials, Volume 38, Issue 44, 7 August 2026.
Elephant‐skin‐inspired crack networks are programmed in porous diatomaceous earth (DE)‐cement composites using substrate‐guided, stress‐concentration induced fracture. The resulting crack lattices act as capillary conduits that redistribute water, while the porous matrix stores moisture.
Qingya Huang, Kun‐Hao Yu, Ji Yoon Bae, Yunchan Lee, Dorit Aviv, Shu Yang   +5 more
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Biochar-Terracotta Conductive Composites: New Design for Bioelectrochemical Systems

Frontiers in Energy Research, 2020
Research in the field of bioelectrochemical systems is addressing the need to improve components and reduce their costs in the perspective of their large-scale application.
Pierangela Cristiani, Andrea Goglio, Stefania Marzorati, Stephanie Fest-Santini, Andrea Schievano   +4 more
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Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of opportunity for social buffering

Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 95, Issue 8, Page 1326-1338, August 2026.
This study tests whether early‐life maternal association buffers offspring from the effects of prenatal stress in a facultatively social lizard. Despite clear effects of maternal glucocorticoids on growth and social behaviour, social associations did not mitigate these effects, revealing limits to social buffering in this species.
Kirsty J. MacLeod, Alix Bouffet‐Halle, Erik Wapstra, Tobias Uller, Geoffrey M. While   +4 more
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Ceramic Production and Geodiversity in Iron Age Iberia: An Archaeometric Study of Pottery from Castrejón de Capote (SW Spain)

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 659-673, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot, Luis Berrocal‐Rangel, Manuel Fernández‐Götz   +2 more
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An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 804-810, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi, Federica Spagnoli, Vittorio Vinciguerra, Stefania Garzoli   +3 more
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GAJAH DALAM TERAKOTA MAJAPAHIT

Dewa Ruci: Jurnal Pengkajian dan Penciptaan Seni, 2016
Elephant’s manifestation in the shape of Majapahit’s terracotta more interesting with aesthetic approach. The artifact is an discovery of archeologists’ in Trowulan which is estimated as a city center of Majapahit Kingdom.
Prima Yustana
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Predator Experience Shapes Behaviour: Comparing Stone Wētā (Hemideina maori) Populations With and Without Weka (Gallirallus australis hectori)

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2026.
Map of Lake Wānaka showing the locations of Mou Tapu and Mou Waho, the two islands where Hemideina maori were sampled, with an inset image of a female H. maori. Mou Tapu is free of introduced mammalian predators and weka (Gallirallus australis hectori), whereas Mou Waho hosts an introduced population of weka.
Sheri Johnson, Luke Thompson, Hamish Doogan, Priscilla Wehi   +3 more
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Effect of terracotta drinker and/or water addition of ASPRO‐C plus on behavior, growth, and physiological response of broiler chickens exposed to high temperature

Animal Research and One Health
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a terracotta drinker and/or water supplementation with ASPRO‐C Plus on the zootechnical performance of broiler chickens reared in a hot environment. A total of 160 Cobb 500 broiler chicks of 15 days old (240.2 ±
Tadondjou Tchingo Cyrille d’Alex, Edmond Gilhoube, Denis Djaomanwe, Narcisse Ledang, Roger Ponka, Ferdinand Ngoula, Alexis Teguia   +6 more
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Conservation and restoration of a votive mask from Jiyeh in Lebanon [PDF]

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017
A terracotta mask discovered at the site of Jiyeh (ancient Porphyreon) in Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast between Beirut and Sidon, underwent conservation and restoration in 2014.
Anna Tomkowska
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