Humans' relationships with animals, increasingly the subject of controversy, have long been of interest to those whose primary aim has been the better understanding of humans' relationships with other humans. Since this topic was last reviewed here,…
Papers in Archaeology
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GRASS is a full featured, general purpose Open Source geographic information system (GIS) with raster, vector and image processing capabilities. There has been constant development of the software since 1982, with recent major improvements…
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Mainland IL, Schutkowski H, Thomson AF (2007) Macro- and micromorphological features of lifestyle differences in pigs and wild boar. Anthropozoologica 42(2): 89-106
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Visual function in monkeys is subserved at the cortical level by a large number of areas defined by their specific physiological properties and connectivity patterns. For most of these cortical fields, a precise index of their degree of anatomical…
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A diverse assemblage of large mammals is spatially and stratigraphically associated with Ardipithecus ramidus at Aramis. The most common species are tragelaphine antelope and colobine monkeys. Analyses of their postcranial remains situate them in a…
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Transparent obsidian artifacts have been reported for the northern Lake Titicaca Basin. Based on instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) of these artifacts a distinct chemical group was identified. Yet, the location of the source of…
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Despite the growing material evidence of African American religious practices, attempts to understand these materials in their cultural context are still limited. This study represents an attempt to recognize, interpret, and understand religious…
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A comparison of aspects of magical belief & practice with elements identified in experimental parapsychology suggests that some magical phenomena may have their basis in what parapsychologists call psi. Similarities are found between magic &…
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Magnetic and Geochemical Variations as Indicators of Palaeoclimate and Archaeological Site EvolutionThe River Bend site, 41TR68, is located on the West Fork of the Trinity River near Fort Worth, Texas, in the Upper Trinity River floodplain. A magnetometer survey was performed at this site to identify hearths, and utilizing these data backhoe…
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The Atapuerca Site (Burgos, N. Spain) is an extensive archaeological site which has yielded numerous human fossil remains. The Gran Dolina section, one of the open-air excavations and subject of this study, consists of a sedimentary infilling of 18…
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China is a key area for research into human occupation in the Old World after the initial expansion of early humans out of Africa. Reliable age determinations are pivotal for assessing the patterns of human evolution and dispersal in this region.…
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A relational database using Access, and an interface based on a Geographical Information System (GIS) with ArcView program, were created to allow spatial-temporal analysis of documentary flood data collected for the Tagus basin (Central Spain). High…
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The co-occurrence of matrilocality and maize-based agriculture among historical northern Iroquoian groups of New York and southern Ontario has long been of interest to anthropologists and archaeologists. The traditional explanation of this…
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David Rindos' coevolution theory remains the most comprehensive application of Darwinian theory to issues of prehistoric agriculture evolution. While his theory has drawn attention, there has been a lack of subsequent development of the application…
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When we speak about the history of archaeology, we frequently mean the development of new techniques of excavation and analysis, outstanding discoveries that have attracted public interest, or the gradual improvement of our understanding of the…
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The scarcity of long geological records of major earthquakes, on different types of faults, makes testing hypotheses of regular versus random or clustered earthquake recurrence behavior difficult. We provide a fault-proximal major earthquake record…
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A detailed chronology of major stratospheric dust veils from 1881 to 1960 has been constructed by searching the primary literature for relevant observational data of various kinds, especially pyrheliometry. Data from 23 observing sites in both…
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Current techniques for the quantification of melt inclusion chemistry require that inclusions are compositionally homogeneous and that post-entrapment devitrification or crystallization onto the inclusion walls could be reversed by appropriate…
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Despite intensive study and a number of remarkable discoveries in the last two decades of the 20th century, our understanding of the cultural and biological processes that resulted in the emergence of the Upper Paleolithic and the establishment of…
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What are the advantages of equipping a wooden arrow with stone, rather than just using the sharpened wooden tip? Very few it seems. In a series of well-controlled experiments the authors show that stone arrow-heads achieve barely 10 per cent extra…
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