Advances in Anthropology
Dados do Periódico
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Editora | Scientific Research Publishing (CN) |
| ISSN | 2163-9353 / 2163-9361 |
| Wikidata | Q59275370 |
| OpenAlex | S4210178264 |
| MAG | 4210178264 |
| Site | http://www.scirp.org/journal/aa |
| Total de publicações | 257 |
| Período coberto | 2011 - 2026 |
| País | US |
| Idioma | EN |
| Acesso | Open Access |
| Citada por | 21 |
| Fator de impacto | 0.148 |
| Índice h | 3 |
This journal is explicitly titled "Advances in Anthropology," indicating a direct focus on the discipline. As a general anthropology venue, it is core to social/cultural anthropology
African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Chinese history and philosophy · Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Dermatoglyphics and Human Traits · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Catholic Institutional Agency and Socio-Political Transitions in Mwanza, Tanzania (1880-1961)
This paper examines the institutional agency of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) in navigating socio-political transitions in the Mwanza Region, Tanzania, bounded primarily within the foundational colonial period (1880-1961). Utilizing a qualitative historical research design, the study draws on oral history interviews alongside primary digitized archival series from the Archives of the Missionaries of Africa in Rome (including Archival Files GEN …
Landscape, Defense, and Symbolism
Elevated fortified settlements occupy some of the most prominent mountain landscapes of the western Balkans. Their locations were rarely accidental. Natural protection, broad visibility, access to building stone, and control of communication corridors repeatedly influenced where communities established permanent settlements. The Kolun Hillfort, near Mrežica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, occupies a limestone plateau reaching approximately 1190 m abov…
The Soninke People
Between Essentialist and Constructivist Approaches
In contemporary debates, African bioethics is often forced to choose between two theoretical poles that are equally inadequate when taken to extremes: a normative essentialism that protects the dignity and value of life, but risks freezing African cultures into a homogeneous and ahistorical image; and a moral constructivism that opens the space for deliberation, pluralism, and contextual adaptation, but may dissolve into relativism or into a mere…
Deliberate Closure of Constructed Spaces
The deliberate closure of constructed spaces represents a recurring but insufficiently examined phenomenon in archaeological and anthropological research. This study explores patterns of intentional backfilling and sealing in two distinct contexts: the Ravne tunnel system in the Visoko region of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Neolithic site of G?bekli Tepe in southeastern Türkiye. Archaeological investigations conducted between 2006 and 2025 with…
Pre-European Māori Pā as a Model for Traditional Hilltop Fortresses in Wider World Context
The two types of pre-European settlements of the Māori people are pā—a palisaded fortress, and kainga-unfortified settlements on flatland. Pā are normally located on strategically chosen sites where natural defence conditions, such as the top of a cliff or steep slope, headland or hilltop, are available. A well palisaded pā and unfortified or crudely palisaded kainga nearby are mutually dependant on each other for security and resources. The crop…
Current Status, Hot Topics, and Trends in Chinese Cultural Heritage Protection Research in the New Era (2013-2024)
Using CiteSpace bibliometric software, this study conducted a visual knowledge map analysis of 561 CSSCI journal articles on cultural heritage preservation research indexed in China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) from 2013 to 2024. It systematically examined the current state, research hotspots, and trends in cultural heritage preservation studies, clarifying the overall development trajectory of this field. Findings reveal that the vol…
An Anthropological Interpretation of the Subterranean Ravne Tunnel System (Central Bosnia)
The subterranean Ravne tunnel system in central Bosnia contains a dense concentration of architectural features, artifacts, and environmental conditions that point to sustained human activity underground. Archaeological documentation, spatial mapping, stratigraphic observations, and recently published environmental studies are combined to examine how these tunnels were shaped, used, and modified over time. Dry-stone walls, blocked passages, shift…
Geometric and Numerical Correlations in the Shroud of Turin
Cross-Border Pastoralism in a Losing Era
The Shroud of Turin and Mathematical Constants
The Concept of Tao and of Yin/Yang
The Female Emotions and Images in Northern Shaanxi Folk Songs
The Soninke Civilization
Traditional African Medicine
Traditional medicine in Ivory Coast is undergoing a major transformation and occupies a prominent place in the health system. Indeed, the experience of Covid-19, marked by the inability of modern Western health systems to treat this viral disease, has sparked a growing interest in traditional medicine, despite the denial of recognition to which he is subject through certain players in the modern health system. And yet, the prowess of African medi…
The Voice of Royalty
Fons or kings in all human societies occupy a high social standing. They have certain privileges, which others in the society do not have. In the Cameroon Grassfields, they have the prerogative to own and use symbolic art objects. The single or double gong and elephant tusk are among the prestigious objects, which were used by the Fon or the kwifon alone in the past. Today, instruments like the double gong are used by many masquerades and some ch…
Philosophical Anthropology and the Study of Time
The idea about time within the outlines of philosophical anthropology erases the boundary between the cognitive intentions of the philosophical and non-philosophically oriented knowledge as well as it tries to raise the question about the comprehension of time within consciousness in the context of a total cognitive theory. The paper displays how the most significant thinkers within the history of the philosophical reflection on time up until the…
Clash of Traditions
The populations of Ìlàjẹ theocratic communities consider themselves culturally distinct from the inhabitants of their native settlements. The inhabitants of the former predominantly originate from the latter, as before the formation of theocratic communities in Ìlàjẹland, Ìlàjẹ indigenes in their homeland inhabited villages and islands within their coastal boundaries. To escape persecution and to practice their faith without inhibition, the Holy …
Why Is “Following Human Nature Called Dao”? —An Anthropological Discussion on the Correspondence between “Dao” and “Human Nature”
The doctrine of “following human nature is called Dao” in The Doctrine of the Mean illustrates the corresponding relationship between “human nature” and “Dao”, carrying anthropological and cosmological implications. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the correspondence between human nature and Dao using the methods of anthropology and biology. Dao represents the rule of conduct (movement), and material can form things by adhering to these r…
Understanding the Concept of Human Superiority
The theory of mind is the ability for an organism to understand the mental state of other beings, and attribute and predict their behaviors based on this understanding. While humans demonstrate the innate mental content of a theory of mind, understanding whether or not other organisms have a theory of mind is more difficult, especially because it is viewed from a human-centric lens, leading people to wonder about other animals. This therefore beg…
Tang China and the Buddhist Silk Roads
Tang China’s capital was the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan city in the world from the early seventh to mid-eighth centuries. Crucial to its prestige was its tolerance of multiple religious traditions and support for long-distance commerce. The Silk Roads, a series of paths through deserts, mountains and grasslands traversing 5000 kilometers of China and Central Asia carried world-transforming cosmologies and luxury products between China, Indi…
The Anecdote of Liuite —In View of the Progress of Modern Technology, There Might Be No More New Minerals to Be Found on the Earth after another Half a Century
Liuite (FeTiO3 with an orthorhombic perovskite structure) is a new mineral approved by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) in November 2018. It was named after my family name, Liu, because I am the first person who synthesized/identified this new material in my laboratory in 1975 at the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University. Since …
Royalty and Ancestral Venerations
Royalty and ancestry venerations: commemorating the death of palace children (princes and princess), examines the different ceremonies and rites which are performed during the death celebration of princes and princess or palace children. Children in the Grassfields of Cameroon in general and in Kedjom Keku in particular are treated differently, that is, those of free birth and those of royal descent. Such differential treatment is seen during the…
Why Is Human Nature Good
Mencius’s judgment that “human nature is good” is not only a metaphysical statement but also an anthropological one. The purpose of this article is to support such a judgment by applying anthropology. In the first part, I with some research results of anthropologists show that humans have “good sprouts” that are different from apes. In the second part, I discuss that the good sprouts came from the random adventure for cooperative behavior of comm…
The Soninke Civilization
In this paper, the author aims to study the causes of the social mutations of the Soninke society form the colonial epoch to the present day. In fact, we have noticed that the western colonization which symbolizes a huge cultural aggression against the African societies in general, has brought about big transformations in Africa in general and in Soninkara particularly. Since this historical event, the society of the Soninke people has been under…
Why Marx Was a Bad Driver
Contemporary automobilities research is characterised by a fundamental paradox-recognition of driving as a sensate experience alongside a tendency to emphasise the driver’s sensory disengagement from, rather than engagement with the bodily, social and environmental contexts with which s/he interacts. In this article, which builds on previous empirical work I have published, only now in a more theoretical and comparative directions, I undertake th…
Mapping Three-Dimensional Density Patterns for Analyzing Artefact (Re)distribution Trends in Palaeolithic Sites
The artefact density in an archaeological deposit provides a direct record of the concentrating and dispersing effects of various formation processes. 2D density analyses have frequently been processed, especially through the topological properties of the Geographical Information System. Nevertheless, the resulting 2D visualisation by density maps does not consider or analyze the vertical interpolation of archaeological finds. This is limiting in…
The Significance of the Earliest Beads
This paper attempts to explore beyond the predictable and banal archaeological explanations relating to early beads and pendants. It recounts replication experiments to establish aspects of technology so as to better understand what can be learnt from the quantifiable properties of these artifacts. The article also scrutinizes the available empirical record in the light of taphonomic logic to translate the known spatial and temporal distributions…
African Eve
The replacement hypothesis proposes that “modern humans” evolved only in sub-Saharan Africa, through a speciation event rendering them unable to breed with other hominins. They then spread throughout Africa, then to Asia, Australia and finally to Europe, replacing all other humans by exterminating or outcompeting them. In this critical analysis of the replacement hypothesis it is shown that it began as a hoax, later reinforced by false paleoanthr…
Being and Becoming Maya in Chan Kom
Between the years of 1931 and 1950, Robert Redfield, social science researcher and ethnographer from the University of Chicago, and Alfonso Villa Rojas described subtle and explicit cultural changes within Chan Kom, a Maya village in North-Central Yucatán. Using the theoretical framework developed by Martin Heidegger regarding worlds, being and style, this paper explores the social and cultural changes in the Maya village of Chan Kom in order to …
Re-Examining the Out-of-Africa Theory and the Origin of Europeoids (Caucasoids). Part 2. SNPs, Haplogroups and Haplotypes in the Y Chromosome of Chimpanzee and Humans
Our consideration of human haplogroups, and our analysis of the dynamics of the Y-chromosome nucleotide flow from primates to humans during the evolution of genus Homo has shown that a common ancestor of the majority of present day human males, both African and non-African, lived approximately 160,000 years ago. The haplogroup of this common ancestor has been identified as the α-haplogroup, which is equivalent or close to haplogroups A1/A1b in th…
Re-Examining the "Out of Africa" Theory and the Origin of Europeoids (Caucasoids) in Light of DNA Genealogy
Seven thousand five hundred fifty-six (7556) haplotypes of 46 subclades in 17 major haplogroups were considered in terms of their base (ancestral) haplotypes and timespans to their common ancestors, for the purposes of designing of time-balanced haplogroup tree. It was found that African haplogroup A (originated 132,000 ± 12,000 years before present) is very remote time-wise from all other haplogroups, which have a separate common ancestor, named…
Ancient History of the Arbins, Bearers of Haplogroup R1b, from Central Asia to Europe, 16,000 to 1500 Years before Present
This article aims at reconstructing the history of R1b ancient migrations between 16,000 and 1500 years before present (ybp). Four thousand four hundred eight (4408) haplotypes of haplogroup R1b (with subclades) were considered in terms of base (ancestral) haplotypes of R1b populations and the calculated time to their common ancestors. The regions considered are from South Siberia/Central Asia in the east (where R1b haplogroup arose ~16,000 ybp) …
A New Biomarker for Hepatocellular Damage
Background: Accumulating evidence has suggested that cell-free DNA (cf-DNA) enters the circulation following cell apoptosis or necrosis. An increased level of cf-DNA fragments has been found in the blood of mice with drug-induced liver damage. We sought to determine the role of cf-DNA in hepatocellular damage. Methods: Plasma samples were collected from 204 patients with hepatitis. The patients were divided into three groups according to liver pa…
Extirpolation of the Mythology that Porotic Hyperostosis is Caused by Iron Deficiency Secondary to Dietary Shift to Maize
Diagnosing a shift to a maize-dominant diet, on the basis of recognition of high population frequencies of porotic hyperostosis, has unfortunately entered the “collective consciousness” of anthropology—because of the mythology that iron deficiency is a common cause of that phenomenon. Skull changes in patients with all forms (both primary and secondary) of iron deficiency are actually extremely rare (0.68%!). That frequency certainly does not sup…
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge of a Human-Elephant Interaction in Transmara District, Kenya
Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK) of the Maasai community in the context of their interaction with elephants around Masai Mara National Reserve (MMNR), Kenya is explored. Although Maasai community land sustains a huge elephant population, it is experiencing increased human-elephant conflict (HEC). Focus group discussions combined with scientifically collected data were used in assessing the relevance of IEK to elephant related ecological rese…
There Are ponoks , and There Are ponoks
There has been a vast corpus of literature on Islam and Muslims since 9/11 that sought to locate the basis of Muslimness in some primordial essentialist cultural value. Since then, many Muslim religious boarding schools in predominantly Muslim countries in South and Southeast Asia have been policed and raided. This essay, based on fieldwork conducted in Thailand’s far-south, hope to provide a different picture from what has commonly been portraye…
Haplogroup R1a, Its Subclades and Branches in Europe During the Last 9,000 Years
This study identifies and describes 38 branches of the haplogroup R1a STR haplotypes which currently exist in Europe or which migrated from Europe to areas in the east, south, and southeast between 6000 and 4500 years before the present (ybp). The study is based on 2471 haplotypes which have been tested for either 67- or 111-markers; it essentially creates a unified robust system, which assembles dozens of R1a-SNPs and thousands of STRs and assig…
Mobile and Terrestrial but Firmly Rooted on the River Banks
Archaeological interpretation often links both the European Mesolithic and the complexity with reduced mobility and permanent or semi-permanent settlements. The Iron Gates Gorge (IGG) Mesolithic, on the banks of the Danube, with substantial formal disposal areas for the dead and canonized architecture, especially as manifested at the site of Lepenski Vir, fully conforms to this notion. Different aspects of bioarchaeological analysis – when evalua…
The Origin of Sumerians
Who were the Sumerians? Where did they originate? For those who are not familiar with this remarkable, resourceful and intelligent people, who not only invented writing but also established the true mythological foundations of all main religions of the world, simply put, they taught us almost everything. Four different points regarding the current known archeological evidence are evaluated separately, and the Sumerians’ unique and strongly sacred…
New Postcranial Hominin Fossils from the Central Narmada Valley, India
Hathnora in Central Narmada valley (Madhya Pradesh) has earlier yielded a partial skullcap, and two clavicles and a 9th rib of Middle Pleistocene hominin. Recent explorations have brought to light two more human fossils-a humerus and a femur from a new locality, Netankheri. The femur is derived from the Middle Pleistocene stratigraphic horizon as the Hathnora skullcap, and shares similar “archaic” mosaic morphology of Homo heidelbergensis, also a…
Were There Commercial Communications between Prehistoric Harappans and African Populations
This paper is an historical and scientific evaluation of Western archaeologists’ theories concerning ancient population movements and commercial contacts between the prehistoric Harappans and African populations during the Indus Age (2500-1900 BC). In this context the human skeletal remains and artifacts from Harappa and Mohenjodaro are relevant. An urnburial from the Indus river site of Chanhudaro has an important bearing upon this subject. The …
Molecular Genetic Perspectives on the Origin of the Lyngngam Tribe of Meghalaya, India
Meghalaya, one of the Northeast Indian states, is inhabited by two major tribal clusters, Khasi and Garo. The disputed origin of the Lyngngam tribe of Meghalaya is a result of their geographic distribution, which is sandwiched between that of the above two major tribal clusters. Our earlier analysis of ethnohistoric, linguistic and demographic data suggested the neighbouring Khasi and Garo as the putative parental population(s) of Lyngngam. In th…
Haplogroup R1a as the Proto Indo-Europeans and the Legendary Aryans as Witnessed by the DNA of Their Current Descendants
This article aims at reconstructing history of R1a1 ancient migrations between 20,000 and 3500 years before present (ybp). Four thousand four hundred sixty (4460) haplotypes of haplogroup R1a1 were considered in terms of base (ancestral) haplotypes of R1a1 populations and timespans to their common ancestors in the regions from South Siberia and northern/northwestern China in the east to the Hindustan and further west across Iranian Plateau, Anato…
Tay-Sachs and French Canadians
Tay-Sachs, an inherited neurological disorder, is unusually common among French Canadians from eastern Quebec. Two alleles are responsible, one being specific to the north shore of the St. Lawrence and the other to the south shore. This pattern of convergent evolution suggests the presence of a selection pressure limited to eastern Quebec. Both alleles probably arose after the British conquest of Quebec in 1759 or at least were uncommon previousl…
A Time Series of Prehistoric Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Western European Genetic Diversity Was Largely Established by the Bronze Age
A major unanswered question concerns the roles of continuity versus change in prehistoric Europe. For the first time, genetic samples of reasonable size taken at multiple time points are revealing piecemeal snapshots of European prehistory at different dates and places across the continent. Here, we pull these disparate datasets together to illustrate how human genetic variation has changed spatially and temporally in Europe from the Mesolithic t…
Genotoxicity Assessment of Birch-Bark Tar—A Most Versatile Prehistoric Adhesive
In the Mesolithic, birch-bark tar was commonly utilized across Europe and much of Asia as an adhesive to bind, seal and coat surfaces, but also quite frequently it was found to be chewed. The tar is known to contain biomarker triterpenoid compounds like betulin, crucial in preserving food and for medical applications. Aqueous, ethanolic and DMSO extracts were prepared from solid birch-bark tar and evaluated in vitro for the induction of DNA damag…
Golfer and Tennis Elbow in Byzantine Turkey
Both lateral and medial epicondylitis are well known in modern medicine as diseases of occupation, leaving recognizable lesions on the epicondyles. We report on 36 individuals from the 8th-10th century AD Byzantine period from Kovuklukaya, near Sinop, Middle Black Sea region, Northern Anatolia, Turkey. The present study focuses on medial and lateral epicondylitis with lesions of enthesopathies and bony pits, assessing the frequency of these lesio…
The Origin of Kurds
Kurds are traditionally regarded as Iranians and of Iranian origin, and therefore as Indo-Europeans, mainly, because they speak Iranian. This hypothesis is largely based on linguistic considerations and was predominantly developed by linguists. In contrast to such believes, newest DNA-research of advanced Human Anthropology indicates, that in earliest traceable origins, forefathers of Kurds were obviously descendants of indigenous (first) Neolith…
The Future of Traditional Customary Uses of Wildlife in Modern Africa
This paper discusses the future of traditional customary uses of wildlife in Africa. The continent’s wildlife is as old as humanity or perhaps even older. Indeed wildlife has through the ages remained a valuable resource for the African society; both in its traditional setting and in its modern form. While wildlife has some conventional and universal uses to society, there are some uses that are anthropologically unique to the African traditional…
Bioarchaeological Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains of Iron Age from the Shirakavan Cemetery, Shirak Plateau, Armenia
This study introduces some diseases which occur among the population of Armenia in the Iron Age. Health issues in the individuals from Shirakavan provoked not by nutritional problems, but problems of infectious nature. The skeletal traumas of the inhabitants of the Shirak plateau are connected only with military conflicts. The results of this study are those that suggest strenuous labor for at least some individuals, based on the presence of oste…
Soft Tissue Contributions to Pseudopathology of Ribs
This study reports the results of a de novo classification and characterization of macroscopically perceivable bone alterations relating to the pathologic significance of rib alterations as noted in defleshed bones. We distinguish between nonspecific two-dimensional color alterations and three-dimensional surface modification which appears to have diagnostic significance. Color alterations were patchy in nature with brown being most prominent, fo…
Study of P, Ca, Sr, Ba and Pb Levels in Enamel and Dentine of Human Third Molars for Environmental and Archaeological Research
Elemental determination of 80 third molars, collected from local dental clinics in Hsinchu City, Taiwan during 2009 to 2010, was conducted using inductively coupled plasma—mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Results show that the mean concentrations of P, Ca, Sr, Ba and Pb in enamel are respectively 14.63% ± 2.19%, 27.91% ± 4.03%, 108.31 ± 35.71 ppm, 1.96 ± 1.01 ppm, and 0.72 ± 0.49 ppm. The concentrations of P, Ca and Sr are higher in enamel than in den…
African Eve
The replacement hypothesis proposes that “modern humans” evolved only in sub-Saharan Africa, through a speciation event rendering them unable to breed with other hominins. They then spread throughout Africa, then to Asia, Australia and finally to Europe, replacing all other humans by exterminating or outcompeting them. In this critical analysis of the replacement hypothesis it is shown that it began as a hoax, later reinforced by false paleoanthr…
Being and Becoming Maya in Chan Kom
Between the years of 1931 and 1950, Robert Redfield, social science researcher and ethnographer from the University of Chicago, and Alfonso Villa Rojas described subtle and explicit cultural changes within Chan Kom, a Maya village in North-Central Yucatán. Using the theoretical framework developed by Martin Heidegger regarding worlds, being and style, this paper explores the social and cultural changes in the Maya village of Chan Kom in order to …