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Visible Tools, Invisible Crafts: An analysis of textiles tools, textile production, and textile organisation along the south coast of Iron Age Britain
Textile production was an essential element of society in prehistory, supplying people with clothing, furnishings, and utilitarian items like sails, straps, and sacking. The fragility of textiles means few examples of ... -
Human behavioural dynamics in island rainforests: evidence from the Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua
During the Late Pleistocene and Holocene (over the past c. 100,000 years), Homo sapiens dispersed into a wide array of novel, challenging environments. Remarkable adaptive flexibility encouraged humans to improvise social ... -
Foraging ecology and population structuring of baleen whales in the western South Atlantic and eastern South Pacific
Baleen whales are highly mobile marine predators that are still recovering from unsustainable exploitation between the 18th and 20th centuries. There remain considerable gaps in our understanding of the migration, foraging ... -
Fields and Forests: A Stable Isotope Perspective on the Subsistence Strategies of Past Amazonian Peoples
The subsistence strategies employed by the ancient peoples of the Amazon have been a fundamental and extensively debated topic since the inception of archaeological research in the region. Despite a general disagreement ...
