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

Anthropology.net

For decades, they were thought to be remnants of an earlier, Ice Age aesthetic, part of a vast visual tradition called the Irregular Infill Animal Period (IIAP). Of the 151 rock art sites identified, 22 preserved animal depictions that broke stylistically with the earlier IIAP tradition. Credit: Dr. Motta in Motta et al. link] Ross, J.,

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Rewriting the Past: The Forgotten Bronze Age of North Africa

Anthropology.net

Rather than being overrun by an external culture, the people of Kach Kouch were actively adapting and integrating new influences into their own traditions. Kach Kouch upends this assumption, showing that indigenous communities were already engaged in complex economic and social structures centuries before Carthage was even founded.

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Echoes Across the Sands: Bronze Age Cymbals Reveal Musical Ties Between Oman and the Indus Valley

Anthropology.net

These instruments, linked to the Umm an-Nar culture, provide compelling evidence of a shared musical tradition between the ancient civilizations of the Arabian Peninsula and the Indus Valley.​ The discovery of these well-preserved cymbals offers a rare glimpse into the auditory traditions of Bronze Age communities.​

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Apply Now for 2025 APSA Dissertation Workshops | Deadline: April 27, 2025

Political Science Now

All applications must be submitted by Sunday, April 27, 2025. Each full-day workshop includes six PhD candidates who present a dissertation chapter, along with two faculty members who lead the workshop and moderate discussions. Our virtual workshops are held over the summer or fall.

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Rethinking Inequality: What 50,000 Ancient Homes Tell Us About Power, Wealth, and Human Choices

Anthropology.net

Drawing on data from over 50,000 ancient homes spread across six continents and 10,000 years of human history, the research team measured the economic disparities of the past through one of its most visible clues: the size of people's houses. Others developed traditions or institutions that emphasized reciprocity and mutual aid.

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AI: risky business

Living Geography

Far from undermining traditional geography, it enhances our ability to understand complex, interconnected environments that impact both physical places and human experiences. Source World Economic Forum Global Risks Perception Survey 2005-2006 to 2024-2025.

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CFP: Rome and Iberia V: Diversity of Relations from Antiquity to Modernity

Society for Classical Studies

Diversity of Relations from Antiquity to Modernity April 10-11, 2025 We are delighted to invite you to participate in the fifth interdisciplinary international academic conference on the relationship between ancient Rome and the Iberian Peninsula. Political, economic and commercial relations in the ancient times.