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A Brief History of the Cornish Language, its Revival and its Current Status
(2013-12-02)Despite being dormant during the nineteenth century, the Cornish language has been recently recognised by the British Government as a living regional language after a long period of revival. The first part of this paper ... -
A Celtic Invocation: Cétnad nAíse
(2012-10-24)Very little has been written about the baffling text of the Celtic invocation, the Cétnad nAíse, for the reason that it is abstruse, and the allusions in it resist sure explication. Despite the obstacles to interpreting ... -
A New Look at an Old Collection: A Preliminary Analysis of Lithic Debitage from the Bluff Crest of Starved Rock
(2020-11-03)A common problem in archaeology is the constant shortage of time, money, and personnel necessary to process the extraordinary amount of artifacts that accompanies the excavation of heavily occupied prehistoric sites such ... -
A New Way to Research: The Benefits and Future of Indigenous Archaeologies
(2021-11-07)Indigenous archaeologies allow for new methodologies and theoretical approaches into archaeological studies by promoting collaborative research. This paper explores specific approaches, including member-orientated ... -
A Round Iron Age: The Circular House in the Hillforts of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula
(2008-01-02)This article provides a diachronic synthesis of domestic space in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula from recent prehistory through the High Middles Ages. Within the theoretical and methodological frameworks of landscape ... -
A Striped Hyena Scavenging Event: Implications for Oldowan Hominin Behavior
(2020-11-05)The spotted (Crocuta crocuta), brown (Hyaena brunnea), and striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) are well documented collectors of faunal remains. Actualistic studies of spotted and brown hyenas used as analogs for hominin behavior ... -
Acute Induced Scurvy: Implications for COVID-19 and the Cytokine Storm
(2021-11-07)Using an evolutionary genetic disease model, this review considers Vitamin C (VC) and its potential for treating COVID-19 (CV-19). The model’s validity rests on VC’s potent antioxidant property and the mutation sustained ... -
Adult Foot and Ankle Trauma at Schroeder Mounds (11He177): A Late Woodland Period Site in Illinois
(2020-11-05)Foot and ankle trauma in adults may be accidental or caused by physical activities that increase the likelihood of injury. Little is known about the organization of labor or health of the presumed forager-farmers of the ... -
Almost There: A Portrait of Peter Anton: Cultural reproduction, attitudes, and meaning in the category of outsider art
(2020-11-13)An analysis of the debate surrounding the art exhibit Almost There: A Portrait of Peter Anton at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in 2010 reveals sets of actors with competing interests and claims on the ... -
An Explanation for the Current Sex Distribution in the Riverside Cemetery (20ME01), a Terminal Archaic Site, and Implications for a Possible Site Reinterpretation
(2020-11-13)Current research on the Riverside Cemetery (20ME01), a hypothesized Terminal Archaic site in Menominee County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, has focused on the rise in hunter-gatherer social complexity from the Middle ... -
An Overview of Variation in Archaeologically Observed Mortuary Practices: A Case Study Examining Grave Placement, Headstone Type and Epitaph Content in Two Slave Cemeteries
(2020-11-03)Numerous explanations for archaeologically observed variation in the treatment of the dead have been posited by archaeologists, including but not limited to differentiation in rank, social organization, philosophical-religious ... -
Analysis of a Celtiberian protective paste and its possible use by Arevaci warriors
(2007-03-13)This article presents an infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis of residue adhering to a Celtiberian pottery sherd of late Iron Age date from the Arevacian site of Cerro del Castillo, in Ayllón (Segovia, ... -
Analysis of Intraspecific Communication Plasticity in Captive Female Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)
(2020-11-05)Social plasticity, the adjustment of social behavioral expression to the nuances of daily life, is an important facet of primate communication because it is a response to the selective pressures that make one form of ... -
Artistic Expression and Material Culture in Celtic Gallaecia
(2004-12-20)The Iron Age art of northwestern Iberia (the ancient Gallaecia) is scarcely known by scholars outside Spain and Portugal, due to the local character of most publications dealing with this topic. This has deprived archaeologists ... -
“Becoming Cold-hearted like the Gentiles Around Them”: Scottish Gaelic in the United States 1872-1912
(2003-07-07)Historians have occasionally recognized the presence of Scottish Gaelic-speaking immigrants in the United States, but no previous study has attempted to determine the relationship between the Gaelic-American community and ... -
Beyond Occupy Wall Street: A Case Study of Strike Debt’s Rolling Jubilee as an Emergent Form of Political Action
(2020-11-05)On May 13, 2013, the non-profit organization calling itself Strike Debt purchased $12 million of delinquent medical consumer debt from a random selection of 1,190 Americans and abolished their obligations (Rolling Jubilee ... -
Bezen Perrot: The Breton nationalist unit of the SS, 1943-5
(2008-02-06)This article charts the origins and course of the wartime Breton collaborationist force, the Bezen Perrot (Perrot Unit). For the first time in English, and employing source material previously unused in any language, it ...