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Figure 3 from the manuscript: Detail of the FN3-11-T93-5-1 specimen and the identified bite damage. White arrows indicate areas of taphonomic interest. Lower panels present 3D models obtained using confocal microscopy of the 4 tooth pits included within this study (A n = 1, B n = 1, C n = 2). Photos of the Hippo femur were taken by María Higueras Muñoz, figure created by L.A. Courtenay.
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Figure 5 from the manuscript: Networks of interaction and material culture for two runs of the ArchMatNet model. Networks (a) are from a run of the model where the parameter uniqueTraits is set to false, meaning each band has identical starting traits. Networks (b) include networks where uniqueTraits are set to true, and each band unique starting traits. Nodes are colored by band and numbered by camp. Only the strongest 50% of links are shown. The color and size of the edges represent the strength (or weight) of the relationship between each node.
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Figure summarizing the results of the article: top line with three drawings, showing the interpretation that mild variations dry-wet seasons lead to predictable resource availability and is linked to homogeneous toolkit. Bottom line on the contrary show the link between strong variations dry-wet seasons, leading to unpredictable resource availability, which would favors variable toolkit.
1/3 New recommendation: Fusco, Habte, Leplongeon, Ménard, Manica, Spinapolice, Leonardi (2025). The environmental context of the Middle-to-Late Stone Age Transition in eastern Africa: seasonality as a key factor. v2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Figure summarizing the Table 2 of the article: Overview of the four relatively adequate world hypotheses and their onto-epistemological commitments and imports as well as their broader implications for archaeological typo-praxis.
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Fig. 1 from the preprint: Increase of photogrammetry use in Finnish archaeological fieldwork reports (Paukkonen, 2024).
Fig. 3 from the preprint: Plotted individual report ratios of stratigraphical keywords per page showing decreasing trend.
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Figure 5 from the manuscript: Visual comparison of the flattening and over-smoothing effects of decimation. When normal maps computed from the hi-resolution meshes are applied, most visual detail is rectified in the rendered 3D model.
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