The Anthropocene emerges as an aftermath of the long-held, pervasive belief in human exceptionalism, and a wake-up call to reconsider our being world entangled with plethora other living selves. Along ecological social challenges facing all life on Earth, very boundaries between Nature Culture, biological social, nonhuman are destabilized. From archaeological perspective, particularly relevant ...

Abstract In this historiographical review, I analyse recent works on the history of economic growth and provide a starting point for thinking about how literature fits together as discrete field research. The questions being asked in these texts are relatively new, yet no attempt has been made to identify major themes that driving putting into dialogue with each other, across disciplinary bound...

In this article, we present a web-based open source tool to support crossdisciplinary collaborative seriation with the following goals: to compare different matrix permutations, to discover patterns from the data, annotate it, and accumulate knowledge. Seriation is an unsupervised data mining technique that reorders objects into a sequence along a one-dimensional continuum to make sense of the ...

A crucial question for artificial cognition systems is what meaning is and how it arises. In pursuit of that question, this paper extends earlier work in which we show the emergence of simple signaling in biologically inspired models using arrays of locally interactive agents. Communities of “communicators” develop in an environment of wandering food sources and predators using any of a variety...

Currently, extensive investigations are being carried out in the area of mitochondrial genomics. Mitochondrial DNA is used in many fields of science, e.g. evolutionism, phylogeography, anthropology, archaeology, forensics, medical diagnostics, veterinary medicine, molecular ecology, population genetics, and animal breeding. Mitochondrial markers, haplotypes, or haplogroups are associated with p...

Himalayan Journal of Sociology & Anthropology-Vol. III Pollution of Seti River in Pokhara An Anthropological Perspective Amrit Kumar Bhandari Abstract Seti River is one of important components of the ecology of Pokhara so it holds a great significance for maintaining ecological balance and fulfilling different types of needs of people here. But only a few people are aware of its real value whil...

Purpose To expand understandings of conflict, this chapter offers a detailed assessment of how exchange is enacted within local heroin markets. Addressing drug dealing and heroin users’ buying drugs for their peers (i.e., brokering), this research expands how illegal drug markets are commonly understood. A generalized framework is presented that highlights patterns of exchange. Approach Finding...

ALAN D. ZIEGLER,∗ JEFF M. FOX,† EDWARD L. WEBB,‡ CHRISTINE PADOCH,§ STEVE J. LEISZ,∗∗ ROB A. CRAMB,†† OLE MERTZ,‡‡ THILDE B. BRUUN,§§ AND TRAN DUC VIEN∗∗∗ ∗Geography Department, AS2-04-21, 1 Arts Link, Kent Ridge. National University of Singapore117570, Singapore, email [email protected] †Program on Environment, East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848, U.S.A. ‡Department of Bi...