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The NAGPRA Decision‐Making Process and Praxis: A Case Study of the New Mexico State University Museum

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examined the decision‐making process and practice of a small academic museum as it strived to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Using the New Mexico State University Museum as a case study, it explores key questions related to NAGPRA compliance: How did the NMSU Museum determine that ...
Fumi Arakawa, Stanley Berryman
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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper is devoted to the collections of old Sakha objects produced by Indigenous craftsmen in the north of the Russian Empire and now located in many museums around the world. For several centuries, objects representing Sakha material culture were taken away from their place of origin by explorers, scholars, collectors, and missionaries ...
Tatiana Argounova‐Low
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Additive archaeology: The spirit of virtual archaeology reprinted

, 2015
Archaeologists in the 1980s were embracing wholeheartedly the rapidly expanding field of computer modelling, hypertext and visualisation as vehicles for dataexploration. Against this backdrop ‘virtual archaeology’ was conceived. The term was originally intended to describe a multi-dimensional approach to the modelling of the physical structures and ...
Reilly, Paul, Beale, Gareth
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Ribcage Morphology in Native South American Populations From Different Altitudes: Insights From a Global Comparative Framework

American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 38, Issue 2, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives Altitude shapes human morphology as highland populations must cope with cold and hypoxic environments. Although Andean highlanders have been proposed to exhibit larger and deeper ribcages, this idea is mainly based on research using disarticulated skeletal elements or non‐South American controls. The objective of this research is to
J. M. López‐Rey, M. D. D’Angelo del Campo, G. Bettera Marcat, M. Arrieta, M. Fabra, S. Salega, P. Mercolli, V. Seldes, D. García‐Martínez, M. Bastir   +9 more
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Immersive Cave Environments in VR: A Tool for Exploring Altered States of Consciousness and Creativity in Archaeology

Applied Sciences
This study explores the use of immersive Virtual Reality (VR) cave environments to investigate hypotheses concerning altered states of consciousness, creativity, and flexible thinking in archaeological contexts.
Nicola De Pisapia, Gabriele Penazzi, Isaias De Jesus Herrera Ibarra, Clara Rastelli, Massimo Zancanaro   +4 more
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Virtual Environments as Spaces of Symbolic Construction and Cultural Identity. Latin-American Virtual Communities [PDF]

, 1998
The aim of this work is to understand the sociopsychological\ud and cultural realities of virtual communities as live spaces of meeting and high interaction framed within the Latin American context.
Nocera, Jose L. Abdelnour
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Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 189-220, February 2026.
Abstract How do famines shape the health of survivors? We examine the long‐term impact of the Great Irish Famine (1845–52) on human stature, distinguishing between adverse scarring effects and the apparent resilience of survivors due to selection. Using anthropometric data from more than 14500 individuals born before, during, and after this famine, we ...
Matthias Blum, Christopher L. Colvin, Eoin McLaughlin   +2 more
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The role, opportunities and challenges of 3D and geo-ICT in archaeology [PDF]

, 2014
Archaeology joins in the trend of three-dimensional (3D) data and geospatial information technology (geo-ICT). Currently, the spatial archaeological data acquired is 3D and mostly used to create realistic visualizations. Geographical information systems (
Bourgeois, Jean, De Maeyer, Philippe, De Roo, Berdien   +2 more
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Understanding Public Sector Risk Management in Contexts of Hybridity: A Structured Literature Review

Financial Accountability &Management, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 119-140, February 2026.
ABSTRACT As risk management (RM) becomes more prevalent and public sector reforms increasingly blur the lines between the public and private spheres, understanding RM in these potentially hybridized settings becomes ever more critical. Building on the four dimensions of hybridity proposed by Denis et al.—namely, governance structures, agency and ...
Sarah Russo, Pasquale Ruggiero, Riccardo Mussari, Enrico Bracci   +3 more
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An RL‐Driven Adaptive Game Approach to Support Cultural Heritage Learning

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Study Serious games for cultural heritage offer opportunities for enhancement, particularly in user experience and educational impact. This paper presents a Reinforcement Learning (RL)‐driven adaptive approach to support CH learning through a graphic adventure game.
Christina Tsita, Christos Gogos, Nikolaos Dimitriou, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Maya Satratzemi   +4 more
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