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An Ode to Jonathan Marks, or How I Became a Marksist

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I met Jon Marks in 2015, when I enrolled in the Masters program in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I had just finished a Bachelors degree in anthropology and philosophy at East Carolina University, full of ideas but unsure where they might lead. in Anthropology, and a Ph.D. It wasnt therapy.

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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. DOI : 10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101081

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Echoes of Movement: How the Grammar of Indigenous Languages Maps the Peopling of the Americas

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Linguistic bottlenecks and demographic echoes The study builds on a long-standing hypothesis in historical linguistics and evolutionary anthropology—that migration events, especially those involving small founder populations, reduce linguistic diversity. In this case, however, the origin is likely in the north.

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Faces from the Deep Past: How Europe's Skulls Record 30,000 Years of Upheaval

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The Bone Archive of Human History If genes are blueprints, skulls are blueprints weathered by time. This suggests rapid morphological shifts due to male-driven founder events and local ecological adaptation. A paleogenomic history of southeastern Europe. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 17 (5).

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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

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Heritages are of two kinds, the physical object ranging from tiny beads to pyramids and non-objects like knowledge, custom, oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts. Deborah M.Pearsall (Ed.)

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The First Europeans: Ancient Genomes Reveal Complex Histories of Human Expansion and Neanderthal Interactions

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Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced. Using the length of Neanderthal-derived DNA segments, researchers dated this event to 45,000–49,000 years ago, aligning with the arrival of these modern humans in Europe.

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In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was Matrilineal

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The error perhaps was in believing that this was a single event in a linear, evolutionary understanding of humanity through time. The Cambridge idea, building out of a theoretical link suggested by Engels, was that patriarchy was tied to agricultural production.