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How Expanded Opportunities Drove Europe's First Mega-Settlements

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From Philosophy to Archaeology: The Capability Approach The HDI, widely used today to evaluate well-being through health, education, and living standards, traces its roots to the capability approach developed by philosopher and economist Amartya Sen. Philosophy of archaeology. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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Painting Through Change: How Aboriginal Artists Reimagined Animal Life in a Shifting Holocene Landscape

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2025 In a new study published in Australian Archaeology 1 , Ana Paula Motta and colleagues, in partnership with the Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation, have proposed that these figures represent a distinct rock art style they call the Linear Naturalistic Figures (LNF). "We The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia.

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Children as Artists: A New Perspective on Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

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Related Studies These articles provide diverse perspectives on children’s roles in prehistoric art, integrating developmental psychology, cognitive science, and archaeology. Journal : Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 2015. Journal : Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory , 2023. Journal : World Archaeology , 2020.

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Tracing Maize’s Roots: Evidence of Domestication in South America

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Archaeological specimens of semi-domesticated maize (corn) were found in baskets buried in caves in Peruaçu Valley. Archaeological evidence indicates that maize spread to southwestern Amazonia approximately 6,000 years ago before eventually arriving in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley some 1,500 years ago. Freitas, F.

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Neanderthal Engineers of the Ice Age: A Bone Spear Point from Mezmaiskaya Cave Challenges the Narrative

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Reshaping the Narrative on Neanderthal Technology The projectile point was discovered by a team led by Liubov Golovanova, who has spent decades investigating the archaeological layers of Mezmaiskaya. Neandertal demise: An archaeological analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science , 179 (106223), 106223. It was a Neanderthal.

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Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School

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The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds. Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally.

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Dog Domestication: A Tale of Alaskan Canids and Human Companionship

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The Study of Ancient Alaskan Canids To explore this complex history, a team of archaeologists led by François Lanoë from the University of Arizona analyzed 111 sets of bones from canids unearthed at archaeological sites across interior Alaska. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 2019. Journal : Science , 2013.