A Review of Monumental Past: The Life-histories of Megalithic Monuments in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany) by Brian Fagan

“…Are there cultural memories which helped the megaliths acquire cultural values in later prehistory? Did later prehistoric people in the area connect the megaliths with their ancestors by endowing them with particular interests, concepts, and ideas? …”
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Partir, caboter, revenir : comprendre la mobilité maritime dans la France atlantique durant le Mésolithique by Gregor Marchand, Jorge Calvo-Gómez, Catherine Dupont, Philippe Guillonnet, Marylise Onfray, Michel Philippe

“…As an impalpable research object, maritime mobility in prehistory can only be understood through such disciplinary confrontations.…”
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Archaeological Live Interpretations, Docu-Soaps and Themed Walks: Similarities and Differences by Sarah Willner, Stefanie Samida, Georg Koch

“…Beginning in 2011/12, the fellows of the interdisciplinary research project, Living History: Reenacted Prehistory between Research and Popular Performance, in which historians, archaeologists, and European ethnologists participate and collaborate, have been applying themselves to the examination of these manifold performance-based practices of representation, communication, and acquisition of the past. …”
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On the representation of hierarchical structure: Revisiting Darwin’s musical protolanguage by Shigeru Miyagawa, Shigeru Miyagawa, Analía Arévalo, Vitor A. Nóbrega

“…Finally, we entertain the assumption that the capacity to generate hierarchical structure might have developed as part of tool-making in human prehistory, and hence was established prior to the enhancement of a prosodic protolinguistic system.…”
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Determination of the Linear Viscoelastic Material Behaviour of Interlayers with Semi-Crystalline Structures by Miriam Schuster

“…The exact structure and number of crystallites depend e.g. on the cooling rate and the physical age (or thermal prehistory) of the sample. These factors must be taken into account in the experimental determination of the material parameters with DMTA. …”
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BRITISH PRESS ABOUT THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE OF 1902 by Prokonin F.I.

“…British newspapers and magazines published materials covering the prehistory of the 1902 treaty, the position of the ruling circles in England and allied Japan, the attitude of the countries of continental Europe and America, as well as public figures of these states to the Anglo-Japanese alliance. …”
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Religion som strømme i en flydende bevidsthed by Uffe Schjødt

“…In my view, Steven Mithen’s Book, The Prehistory of the Mind does not offer a satisfying account of how the mind finally went fluid and became able to perform complex artifacts and religious behaviour.…”
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The Construction of a Bronze Age Longhouse Model in Dwelling-byre Style using Experimental Archaeological Techniques by Wolfgang F.A. Lobisser

“…Longhouses built using earth-fast post technique belong to the most important and most successful house types of middle European prehistory. The footprints of these structures, in various styles, are identifiable from the very beginning of the Neolithic period up to the Middle Ages, and sometimes up to early modern times. …”
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Le souvenir de la Grande Guerre dans les réseaux de conservation de l’Entre-Deux-Guerres. Une préhistoire du Bouclier bleu by Pierre Leveau

“…The story in fact constitutes the prehistory of the Blue Shield. It shows how during the inter-war period, under the aegis of the Society of Nations, the international networks of heritage curatorship we know today came into being, and that the idea of a shared heritage for all of humanity emerged as a kind of antidote to the memory of the Great War. …”
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Orthodoxy in Western China and Central Asia: Historical Background by Irina Yu. Smirnova

“…The author discusses the prehistory of the spread of Orthodoxy among the residents of Western China that was inextricably linked to the policy of Russia in Central Asia in the second half of the 19th century and traces the first missionary projects carried out in Ghulja (1851) among the descendants of captive Albazinians exiled from Beijing to the Chinese Ghulja in 1712. …”
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Paleodermatology: Dermatoscopic findings of “Niño del Plomo” an Incan mummy in Chile by Verónica Catalán, MD, MBA, Mario Castro, PhD, Raúl Cabrera, MD, Verónica Silva-Pinto, PhD, Alex Castro, MD, Cristóbal Lecaros, MD, MBI

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Evidence of the use of a horn yoke in the Middle La Tène period, and an analysis of animal finds from La Te`ne features in the Velké Zboží and Malé Zboží cadasters, central Bohemia... by René Kyselý

“…The find represents one of a few documented cases of the use of the yoke in prehistory in the territory of today’s Czech Republic. …”
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Flint assemblages in the context of cultural transition during the 6th millennium BC: a case study from Bulgaria by Maria Gurova

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El museo vivo y el museo imaginario – Reproductibilidad y medios de comunicación de masas en los museos arqueológicos colombianos: prácticas globales y apropiaciones locales (1938... by Daniel García Roldan

“…The second perspective delves into the museum as a site for the geographic and cartographic representation of territory: maps and geographic discourses have clearly played an important role within exhibition spaces that attempt to symbolize the history and the prehistory of the nation, which justifies an investigation into the way museum archaeologists in Colombia made use of these techniques and disciplines (geography and cartography). …”
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The Warrior and the Cat: A Re-Evaluation of the Roles of Domestic Cats in Viking Age Scandinavia by Matthias S. Toplak

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Embodied Space in Google Earth: <i>Crisis in Darfur</i> by Catherine Summerhayes

“…My discussion of the Google Earth site, <i>Crisis in Darfur</i>, investigates the subversive possibilities of compassion in opening up an aesthetic and yet mundane space of respite from the regimes of power inherent to Google Earth, a website with an undeniable prehistory of military surveillance.…”
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Physical Mechanisms Underpinning the Vacuum Permittivity by Gerd Leuchs, Margaret Hawton, Luis L. Sánchez-Soto

“…The debate about the emptiness of space goes back to the prehistory of science and is epitomized by the Aristotelian ‘horror vacui’, which can be seen as the precursor of the ether, whose modern version is the dynamical quantum vacuum. …”
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A Dataset Describing the Manufacturing of Stone Tools Over 3 Million Years by Jonathan Paige, Charles Perreault

“…This is one of the primary datasets developed over the course of the Leakey Foundation funded project: Estimating the reliability of stone tools in reconstructing cultural relationships in prehistory. This dataset should be useful to researchers interested in studying technological variability at large spatio-temporal scales.…”
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Sperm whale clans and human societies by Hal Whitehead

“…Patterns and processes of human prehistory that may be instructive in studying sperm whale clans include: the extreme variability of human societies; no clear link between modes of resource acquisition and social structure; that patterns of vocalizations may not map well onto other behavioural distinctions; and that interacting societies may deliberately distinguish their behaviour (schismogenesis). …”
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Adhesion and Energy Characteristics of Rigid-Chain Polymer Surface: Polyamidoimides by Anatoly E. Chalykh, Valentina Yu. Stepanenko, Ali D. Aliev

“…The adhesion characteristics and surface energies of two series of polyamidoimides (PAI) with different molecular weights, monomer unit structures, hinge groups in the main chain of the macromolecules, and thermal prehistory were determined via delamination at 180° and test fluids contact angles. …”
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