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Advances in Anthropology (AA) is an international peer reviewed journal dedicated to reporting on the latest advances in anthropology and related disciplines. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians worldwide to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and perspectives i…
Algis Vincent Kuliukas
A 3D Geometric Morphometric (GM) analysis of the shape of the pelvis and femur of various extinct hominids and extant humans and apes is described. Observed differences in shape are then discussed in the context of the wading hypothesis, a model of the evolut…
Andrew Dawson
Contemporary automobilities research is replete with representation of a docile driver body or, as it is sometimes humorously described, a ‘mobile meat puppet’. This emerges, largely from research on automobilities in ‘Developed-World’ contexts. Contrastingly…
Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, 1 1
The Yazidi are Kurdish speakers who have lived for centuries as farmers and cattle breeders, scattered about in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and the former Soviet Union. They shared the same fate as the Kurds when the areas were Islamized in the 7 th century. Most of…
Sena Karachanak-Yankova, Desislava Nesheva, Draga Toncheva, Angel S. Galabov
Slavic speaking populations are the most numerous Indo-European ethno linguistic group in Europe. They show great variety and fall into three groups: West, East and South Slavic populations. In order to contribute to the understanding of the correlation betwe…
Ferdinand Fellmann, Esther Redolfi
In this article, we argue that there is an essential difference between social intelligence and creative intelligence, and that they have their foundation in human sexuality. For sex differences, we refer to the vast psychological, neurological, and cognitive…
Reinhardt S. Stein, Giancarlo T. Tomezzoli
The inscription 6858 was discovered on a grave slab at the beginning of 1965, 1 km far from the village of Kjolmen (Preslav district — Bulgaria). After having considered previous decipherings, we propose a deciphering based on similarities between the inscrip…
Petr Jandáček, Anton Perdih
The onomatopoetic Mongol word for the animal elephant, zaan , reflects the primordial Eurasian word for the trumpeting animal mammoth. Subsequently it had diversified into the many variants such as slen , sian , sion , san , chan , slon , silonit , glan , zil…
Metin Gündüz
The “phonetic sound value of each and every hieroglyphic picture’s expressed and intended meaning as a verb or as a noun by the creators of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic picture symbols , ‘ exactly matches ’, the same meaning” as well as the “first letter…
Eyal Regev
The archaeological excavations of the Hasmonean palaces in Jericho and the numismatic evidence on the Hasmoneans are examined in order to understand the Hasmonean rulers’ approach to Hellenistic culture. They enable us to see not only the extent of Hellenisti…
Alice Assadorian
The article is a tentative classification of the toponymy of the Turkish speaking Iranian regions, now including Eastern and Western Azerbaijans, Ardabil, Zanjan and Ghazvin Provinces. Based on a comprehensive study the writer did, as of 2008, a database of 1…
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