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Disabilities have been recognized for millennia. The roles and functions of individuals with disabilities of various kinds in civilizations should be explicated by archeology and anthropology. The greatest challenge is defining mental disorders, especially mental illness, in historical and cultural contexts...... ReadMore -
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This study was conducted among 193 teenage girls (M=15.77, SD=1.87) from Curaçao to assess parent-offspring conflict over mate choice of the offspring, particularly differences among girls who were abandoned by their fathers before the age thirteen (father absence) and girls who grew up with their fathers (father presence). The results supported the parent-offspring conflict hypothesis...... ReadMore -
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Archaeology has been a recurring theme in this journal, normally focused on new findings, interpretations or discoveries made around structures or tangible materials...... ReadMore -
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The following lines are focused on Chile, a country I had the privilege of visiting many times, and which became one of the countries I love most. Rough edges, inadequacies and errors in general that remain are mine (Figure 1)...... ReadMore -
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Relationships between archaeologists, anthropologists, Native Americans, and other Indigenous peoples have often been contentious [1,2], the result of a legacy of colonialism, discrimination, and White privilege, combined with a longstanding focus on scientific exploration of cemeteries, human remains, and sacred places or objects...... ReadMore -
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The Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology last year (2022) has been awarded to Svante Pääbo, one of the pioneers in paleo genomics research, whose studies underlined the importance of our evolutionary history not only for our present but also for our future...... ReadMore -
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Nonhuman animals (henceforth animals) pose an especially strong case of the problem of other minds. This is the problem of justifying the belief that others possess minds, that they indeed have thoughts and feelings like oneself...... ReadMore -
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This research examines the historical record of the 1886 Tarawera eruption in New Zealand and the Pink and White Terraces, into the death of the only English tourist killed in the eruption, Mr Edwin Bainbridge. While his immediate cause of death is accepted as accidental i.e. being crushed by a falling balcony: the proximate cause i.e. hydrogen sulfide...... ReadMore