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Sonic Archaeology – The Chaining of Cerberus
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bioarchaeology research
It is totally normal to find an email in your inbox that is asking:
"Have you ever heard of someone being amputated and not surviving and having their leg taken to the grave, or of someone trying to treat a head injury and removing the skullcap and the person still dying and having the removed skullcap fragments taken to the grave?"
I swear..
#BioArchaeology #Academia #Archaeology

Nucleosynthesis and the chemical enrichment of galaxies
Chiaki Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20436 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

Nucleosynthesis and the chemical enrichment of galaxies
Stars are fossils that retain the history of their host galaxies. Carbon and heavier elements are created inside stars and are ejected when they die. From the spatial distribution of elements in galaxies, it is therefore possible to constrain the physical processes during galaxy formation and evolution. This approach, Galactic archaeology, has been popularly used for our Milky Way Galaxy thanks to a vast amount of data from the Gaia satellite and multi-object spectrographs, and now can also be …

Looking forward to joining the panel for the book launch of @… book 'Selected papers by Bill Hillier' this evening, 7 May at 6pm BST at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Book Launch – Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us online for the launch of Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier, a landmark volume celebrating 50 years of space syntax research. This long-awaited collection reflects Bill Hillier’s transformational way of thinking about buildings and cities that influenced generations of scholars, researchers and practitioners within the built environment disciplines and way beyond – in fields ranging from archaeology and biology to physics and zoology. Edited by Laura Vaughan, John Pepon…

Current Galactic Chemical Evolution models fail to explain rising Na-abundances of young thick disc stars
E. K. Owusu (School of Science, University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia Defence Force Academy, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions, Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany, Heidelberger Institut f\"ur Theoretische Studien, Heidelberg, Germany), A. J. Ruiter (School of Science, University of New South Wal…

Current Galactic Chemical Evolution models fail to explain rising Na-abundances of young thick disc stars
We recently identified an upturn in [Na/Fe] for the population of Solar-type stars in the Galactic thick disc ($-0.3 < [\mathrm{Fe/H}] < +0.3$ dex) at super-Solar metallicity in GALactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) data. Here, we investigate the cause of this unexplained Na enrichment between ([Fe/H] $\sim 0 - 0.6$ dex) using the OMEGA$+$ galactic chemical evolution code. We investigate the increase of [Na/Fe] with four combinations of nucleosynthetic yields from the literature, with source…

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The Junction of Immersive Analytics and Virtual Reconstructions -- A Case Study on the Mausoleum of Emperor Maxentius
Virtual Archaeology has significantly evolved over the last decades through advancements in data acquisition and representation by, e.g., improved data recording technologies and virtual reality devices. Immersive environments provide novel ways to present historical events or objects with high visual quality for both, the general public as well as researchers. Here, we examine how the emerging field of Immersive Analytics can contribute to enhancing the understanding and exploration of archaeo…

Reconstructing North Korea's Plutonium Production History with Bayesian Inference-Based Reprocessing Waste Analysis
Benjamin Jung, Johannes Bosse, Malte G\"ottsche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03865

Reconstructing North Korea's Plutonium Production History with Bayesian Inference-Based Reprocessing Waste Analysis
Although North Korea's nuclear program has been the subject of extensive scrutiny, estimates of its fissile material stockpiles remain fraught with uncertainty. In potential future disarmament agreements, inspectors may need to use nuclear archaeology methods to verify or gain confidence in a North Korean fissile material declaration. This study explores the potential utility of a Bayesian inference-based analysis of the isotopic composition of reprocessing waste to reconstruct the operating hi…