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Gibbons, A. "PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Paleoanthropology's Unsung Hero." Science 312, no. 5781 (June 23, 2006): 1740. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.312.5781.1740.

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Lee, Sang‐Hee. "Decolonizing paleoanthropology." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 175, no. 3 (April 30, 2021): 731–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24282.

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Karetny, E. J. "Neandertal Paleoanthropology." American Biology Teacher 74, no. 4 (April 1, 2012): 284. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2012.74.4.14c.

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Conroy, Glenn Carter. "Paleoanthropology today." Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 6, no. 5 (1998): 155–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1520-6505(1998)6:5<155::aid-evan2>3.0.co;2-b.

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Montgomery, Andrew, and Becca Peixotto. "Explore Paleoanthropology Fieldwork." American Biology Teacher 84, no. 2 (February 1, 2022): 100–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2022.84.2.100.

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This classroom exercise utilizes a free mobile virtual reality app to introduce students to (1) the process by which paleoanthropologists find and interpret fossils, (2) the importance of two recent hominin fossil finds in the Cradle of Humankind of South Africa, and (3) the variety of science careers that contribute to paleoanthropological research. Before their virtual field trip, learners are introduced to the Homo naledi and Australopithecus sediba discoveries and to some of the researchers from the team through a collection of online resources. In the app, learners explore and find fossils in the Dinaledi Chamber of Rising Star Cave in South Africa, where the first fossils of H. naledi were found. Postexploration analysis and reflection prompts encourage learners to consider how researchers decide how and where to excavate, which skills are needed to study our human origins, and why this research is important.
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Rukang, Wu. "Paleoanthropology and Neoanthropology." Chinese Sociology & Anthropology 21, no. 1 (October 1988): 5–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/csa0009-462521015.

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de Bonis, Louis, and Laurent Viriot. "Teeth and Paleoanthropology." Connective Tissue Research 43, no. 2 (April 1, 2002): 87–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713713522.

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de Bonis, Louis, and Laurent Viriot. "Teeth and Paleoanthropology." Connective Tissue Research 43, no. 2-3 (January 2002): 87–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03008200290001032.

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TATTERSALL, I. "Species and paleoanthropology." Theory in Biosciences 123, no. 4 (April 15, 2005): 371–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.thbio.2004.10.001.

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Marshall, E. "Paleoanthropology gets physical." Science 247, no. 4944 (February 16, 1990): 798–801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.2369435.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Paleoanthropology"

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Schmalzer, Sigrid. "The people's Peking Man : popular paleoanthropology in twentieth-century China /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3137238.

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Yen, Hsiao-pei. "Constructing the Chinese: Paleoanthropology and Anthropology in the Chinese Frontier, 1920-1950." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10240.

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Today’s Chinese ethno-nationalism exploits nativist ancestral claims back to antiquity to legitimize its geo-political occupation of the entire territory of modern China, which includes areas where many non-Han people live. It also insists on the inseparability of the non-Han nationalities as an integrated part of Zhonghua minzu. This dissertation traces the origin of this nationalism to the two major waves of scientific investigation in the fields of paleoanthropology and anthropology in the Chinese frontier during the first half of the twentieth century. Prevailing theories and discoveries in the two scientific disciplines inspired the ways in which the Chinese intellectuals constructed their national identity. The first wave concerns the international quest for human ancestors in North China and the northwestern frontier in the 1920s and 1930s. Foreign scientists, such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Amadeus Grabau, Roy Chapman Andrews, and Davidson Black, came to China to search for the first human fossils. With the discovery of Peking Man, they made Beijing one of the most prestigious places for the study of human paleontology and popularized the evolutionary Asiacentric theory that designated Chinese Central Asia and Mongolia as the cradle of humans. Inspired by the theory and the study of the Peking Man fossils, Chinese intellectuals turned Peking Man into the first Chinese and a common ancestor of all humans. In the second wave, from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, Chinese anthropologists like Rui Yifu, Cen Jiawu, Fei Xiaotong, and Li Anzhai made enormous efforts to inscribe the non-Han people of the southwestern frontier into the genealogy of the Chinese nation (Zhonghua minzu). Their interpretations of the relationship between the Han and the non-Han and between the frontier and the center were influenced by various Western anthropological theories. However, their intensive studies of the southwestern non-Han societies advocated the ethnic integration and nationalization of China’s southwestern frontier. By linking the two waves of scientific endeavor, this dissertation asserts that the Chinese intellectual construction of modern Chinese ethnogenesis and nationalism was not a parochial and reactionary nationalist “invention” but a series of indigenizing attempts to appropriate and interpret scientific theories and discoveries.
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Zack, Winston S. "Geoarchaeological Analysis of Two New Test Pits at the Dmanisi Site, Republic of Georgia." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271922/.

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This thesis presents the results of geoarchaeological investigations conducted at two new test pits, M11 and M12, at the paleoanthropological site of Dmanisi during the 2012 field season. This research is important for understanding the site formation processes occurring along the north-south axis of the Dmanisi site and how that affects the chronostratigraphic sequence and interpretation of archaeological materials here. With these excavations we can build a stronger interpretation for how broader areas of this site formed and changed both geologically and archaeologically. The geologic results of this study indicate that changes in sediment deposition and development episodes can affect interpretations of how long these sediments accumulated, how likely bones are to preserve, as well as how secondary gravel deposition can influence several archaeological interpretations. The archaeological results suggest that there could have been changes in occupation intensity between the stratum A and B phases although different rates of sediment deposition and surface stability could affect such artifact accumulations. In addition, during the stratum B phase there appears to be little change in artifact procurement behaviors and reduction characteristics by these hominins. The overall results of this research indicate that geologic factors should be addressed and cautions should be taken prior to making interpretations about archaeological assemblages.
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Sipola, Maija Eliina. "Formation of the Ngandong paleoanthropological site and Solo River terrace sequence, Central Java, Indonesia." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6286.

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The early human paleoanthropological site at Ngandong, Central Java, Indonesia has significant impact on the models for human migration and evolution out of the African continent. Located on an abandoned stream bank above the Solo River, Ngandong archaeological digs have uncovered fourteen Homo erectus fossils that, based on their unique shape, are believed to have lived more recently than any other known examples of Homo erectus. However, this hypothesis has not been substantiated by previous studies at Ngandong due to a general lack of understanding about the formation of the site as a whole. This study seeks to overcome the limits of these previous studies by thoroughly examining the grain size, grain shape, mineralogy, geochemistry, and stratigraphy of the site to understand how it formed, and in turn, provide a necessary geological context to the Ngandong Homo erectus fossils. The results outlined in this dissertation suggest the fossil-bearing layers were deposited at the site (at the time a channel bottom) over a short period of time and were sourced from the volcanic arc that forms the southern portion of Java island.
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Rangel, de Lázaro Gizéh. "Digital analysis of the diploic vascular system in Anatomy, Archaeology and Paleoanthropology and its implications in the hominid endocranial thermoregulation." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/586082.

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Els canals diploicos es col·loquen en l'os esponjós entre les capes corticals de la volta (externa i interna). Les venes diploicas són grans, de parets primes i sense vàlvules que passen per una xarxa de canals microscòpics. Les venes diploicas semblen estar més desenvolupades en humans que en primats no humans, el que suggereix un paper clau en l'evolució humana. Es descriuen les xarxes vasculars diplóicas, proporcionant comparacions quantitatives i correlacions entre el gruix de l'os esponjós i compacte, la longitud de la branca del vas i la mida del lumen, les asimetries vasculars i la distribució volumètrica en els ossos frontal, parietal i occipital. Es van notar les comunicacions entre la xarxa diploica amb l'artèria meníngia a la fossa temporal, amb les venes emisarias en l'os occipital i amb els sins venosos a la confluència del si. En vista de les probables diferències metabòliques i les limitacions associades amb la mida i la forma del cervell humà modern, s'ha d'avaluar si aquestes diferències vasculars poden ser deguts a la termoregulació endocranial. Per tant, considerant la possible contribució dels gots diploicos en la termoregulació del cervell i el maneig de la calor, l'anàlisi de la xarxa diploica pot ser rellevant en antropologia, medicina i paleontologia.
Los canales diploicos se colocan en el hueso esponjoso entre las capas corticales de la bóveda (externa e interna). Las venas diploicas son grandes, de paredes delgadas y sin válvulas que pasan por una red de canales microscópicos. Las venas diploicas parecen estar más desarrolladas en humanos que en primates no humanos, lo que sugiere un papel clave en la evolución humana. Se describen las redes vasculares diplóicas, proporcionando comparaciones cuantitativas y correlaciones entre el grosor del hueso esponjoso y compacto, la longitud de la rama del vaso y el tamaño del lumen, las asimetrías vasculares y la distribución volumétrica en los huesos frontal, parietal y occipital. Se notaron las comunicaciones entre la red diploica con la arteria meníngea en la fosa temporal, con las venas emisarias en el hueso occipital y con los senos venosos en la confluencia del seno. En vista de las probables diferencias metabólicas y las limitaciones asociadas con el tamaño y la forma del cerebro humano moderno, se debe evaluar si estas diferencias vasculares pueden deberse a la termorregulación endocraneal. Por lo tanto, considerando la posible contribución de los vasos diploicos en la termorregulación del cerebro y el manejo del calor, el análisis de la red diploica puede ser relevante en antropología, medicina y paleontología.
The diploic channels are placed in the cancellous bone between the vault cortical layers (external and internal). The diploic veins are large, thin-walled and valveless running through a network of microscopic channels. Diploic veins appear to be more developed in humans than in non-human primates, suggesting a key role in human evolution. We describe their vascular networks, providing quantitative comparisons and correlations between compact and cancellous bone thickness, vessels branch length and lumen size, vascular asymmetries and volumetric distribution in frontal, parietal and occipital bones. Communications between the diploic network with the meningeal artery at the temporal fossa, with the emissary veins at the occipital bone, and with the venous sinuses at the confluence of sinus were noted. In view of probable metabolic differences and constraints associated with modern human brain size and shape, it should be evaluated whether these vascular differences can be due to endocranial thermoregulation. Therefore, considering the possible contribution of diploic vessels in brain thermoregulation and heat management, the analysis of the diploic network may be relevant in anthropology, medicine, and paleontology.
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Lightfoot, Emma. "Bioarchaeological analysis of archaeological populations from Croatia : a comparison of isotopic and archaeological results." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608975.

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Jesse, Richmond. "Experts and australopithecines credibility and controversy in the science of human evolution, 1924-1959 /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3386841.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed January 19, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-295).
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McInnis, Heather E. "Middle Holocene culture and climate on the south coast of Peru : archaeological investigation of the Pampa Colorada /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1196396921&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 729-756). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Premo, L. S. "Agent-based models as behavioral laboratories for evolutionary anthropological research." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110026.

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Agent-based models can provide paleoanthropologists with a view of behavioral dynamics and site formation processes as they unfold in digital caricatures of past societies and paleoenvironments. This paper argues that the agent-based methodology has the most to offer when used to conduct controlled, repeatable experiments within the context of behavioral laboratories. To illustrate the potential of this decidedly heuristic approach, I provide a case study of a simple agent-based model currently being used to investigate the evolution of Plio-Pleistocene hominin food sharing in East Africa. The results of this null model demonstrate that certain levels of ecological patchiness can facilitate the evolution of even simple food sharing strategies among equally simple hominin foragers. More generally, they demonstrate the potential that agent-based models possess for helping historical scientists act as their own informants as to what could have happened in the past.
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O'Neill, Kelsey. "Dietary Adaptations and Intra- and Interspecific Variation in Dental Occlusal Shape in Hominin and Non-hominin Primates." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4626.

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Dental morphology and tooth shape have been used to recreate the dietary adaptations for extinct species, and thus dental variation can provide information on the relationship between fossil species and their paleoenvironments. Variation in living species with known behaviors can provide a baseline for interpreting morphology, and behavior, in the fossil record. Tooth occlusal surface outlines in hominins and non-hominin primates, and other mammals, have been used for assessments of taxonomic significance, with variability often considered as being primarily phylogenetic. Few studies have attempted to assess how diet might influence the pattern of variability in closely related species. Here the occlusal surface shape variability in anterior and postcanine maxillary dentition in primates is measured to assess whether the relationship between diet and variability is consistent. Data were collected from five non-hominin primates in a range of dietary categories, as well as two hominin species, including the derived Paranthropus robustus and a gracile australopith. Mapping a series of 50 sliding semilandmarks based on 2-D photographs using tpsDig software, occlusal surfaces were outlined. Thereafter, outline shapes were quantified using Elliptical Fourier Functional Analysis, and principle components and multivariate analyses were preformed to explore the pattern of intra and interspecific variability in occlusal outlines.These results suggest that there is not a clear relationship between dietary feeding adaptations for all categories examined and selection for larger premolars and molars, as well as smaller incisors, led to less variation in both anterior and post-canine teeth of the fossil hominin Paranthropus robustus.
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Books on the topic "Paleoanthropology"

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Wolpoff, Milford H. Paleoanthropology. 2nd ed. Boston, Mass: McGraw-Hill, 1999.

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Norton, Christopher J., and David R. Braun, eds. Asian Paleoanthropology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9094-2.

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Henke, Winfried, and Ian Tattersall, eds. Handbook of Paleoanthropology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27800-6.

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Winfried, Henke, Tattersall Ian, and Hardt Thorolf, eds. Handbook of paleoanthropology. New York: Springer, 2007.

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Begun, David R., ed. A Companion to Paleoanthropology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118332344.

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Harvati, Katerina, and Mirjana Roksandic, eds. Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0874-4.

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International, Symposium on Paleoanthropology (1999 Beijing China). Proceedings of 1999 Beijing International Symposium on Paleoanthropology: In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the first skull-cap of the Peking Man. Beijing: Published by Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2000.

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Speth, John D. The Paleoanthropology and Archaeology of Big-Game Hunting. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6733-6.

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Bertrand-Yves, Mafart, Delingette Hervé, Subsol Gèrard, International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences., and International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (14th : 2001 : Université de Liège), eds. Three-dimensional imaging in paleoanthropology and prehistoric Archaeology. Oxford, England: Archaeopress, 2002.

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Braun, David R. (David Royce) and SpringerLink (Online service), eds. Asian Paleoanthropology: From Africa to China and Beyond. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Paleoanthropology"

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Durband, Arthur C. "Paleoanthropology." In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1–2. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1840-1.

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Durband, Arthur C. "Paleoanthropology." In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 5682–83. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_1840.

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Yellen, John. "Paleoanthropology Society." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 8285. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_751.

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Yellen, John. "Paleoanthropology Society." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 5734. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_751.

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Marks, Jonathan. "Genetics and Paleoanthropology." In Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 745–62. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39979-4_76.

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Wolpoff, Milford H., and Rachel Caspari. "Paleoanthropology and Race." In A Companion to Paleoanthropology, 321–37. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118332344.ch17.

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Tattersall, Ian. "Paleoanthropology and language." In Studies in Language Companion Series, 129–46. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.144.05tat.

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Isabelle, Crevecoeur, and Marie Claire Dyck. "Physical Anthropology (Paleoanthropology)." In Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, 1706–9. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_1370.

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Marks, Jonathan. "Genetics and Paleoanthropology." In Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 1–17. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27800-6_76-1.

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Norton, Christopher J., and David R. Braun. "Asian Paleoanthropology: An Introduction." In Asian Paleoanthropology, 1–5. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9094-2_1.

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Conference papers on the topic "Paleoanthropology"

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Buraev, A. I., Y. V. Dikii, and M. P. Rykun. "PROBLEMS OF PALEOANTHROPOLOGY IN BURYATIA." In Международная научная конференция "Мир Центральной Азии-V", посвященная 100-летию Института монголоведения,буддологии и тибетологии Сибирского отделения Российской академии наук. Новосибирск: Сибирское отделение РАН, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53954/9785604788981_87.

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Wang, Kai. "Application of computer virtual reconstruction technology in paleoanthropology." In 2021 International Conference on Computer Technology and Media Convergence Design (CTMCD). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ctmcd53128.2021.00027.

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Mana, Sara, Christopher J. Lepre, Sidney Hemming, and Dennis V. Kent. "GEOCHRONOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY FOR PALEOANTHROPOLOGY SITES FROM EAST-CENTRAL AREA 130, KOOBI FORA, KENYA." In GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016. Geological Society of America, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2016am-286282.

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Nottoli, Emmanuelle, Philippe Bienvenu, Didier Bourlès, Alexandre Labet, Maurice Arnold, and Maité Bertaux. "Determination of Long-Lived Radionuclide (10Be, 41Ca, 129I) Concentrations in Nuclear Waste by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry." In ASME 2013 15th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2013-96054.

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Radiological characterization of nuclear waste is essential for storage sites management. However, most of Long-Lived RadioNuclides (LLRN), important for long-term management, are difficult to measure since concentration levels are very low and waste matrices generally complex. In an industrial approach, LLRN concentrations are not directly measured in waste samples but assessed from scaling factors with respect to easily measured gamma emitters. Ideally, the key nuclide chosen (60Co, 137Cs) should be produced by a similar mechanism (fission or activation) as the LLRN of interest and should have similar physicochemical properties. However, the uncertainty on the scaling factors, determined from experimental and/or calculation data, can be quite important. Consequently, studies are performed to develop analytical procedures which would lead to determine precisely the concentration of LLRN in nuclear waste. In this context, the aim of this study was to determine the concentrations of three LLRN: 129I (T1/2 = 15.7×106 a), 41Ca (T1/2 = 9.94×104 a) and 10Be (T1/2 = 1.387×106 a) in spent resins used for primary fluid purification in Pressurized Water Reactors using Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) for measurement. The AMS technique combined mass spectrometry and nuclear physics to achieve highly efficient molecular and elemental isobars separation. Energies of several Million Electron-Volt transferred to the ions in the first accelerating part of specifically developed tandem accelerators lead to molecular isobars destruction through interaction with the argon gas used to strip the injected negative ions to positive ones. At the exit of the tandem accelerator, the energy acquired in both accelerating parts allows an elemental isobars separation based on their significantly different energy loss (dE) while passing through a thickness of matter dx that is proportional to their atomic number (Z) and inversely proportional to ions velocity (ν) according to the Bethe-Block law (1). (1)dEdx=k*Z2ν2 The use of a particle accelerator in conjunction with a selective ion source, mass and energy filters and a high-performance detector thus allow unambiguously identifying and measuring analyte concentration against much more abundant interfering isobars. The development of AMS and of related applications have recently been extensively reviewed [1–3]. Up to now, the potentialities of the accelerator mass spectrometry technique were explored for the measurement of cosmogenic radionuclides produced in the Earth’s environment either in the atmosphere or in the Earth’s crust (in situ-production). Many applications aiming to date and/or quantify Earth surface processes have been developed in the fields of geology, geomorphology and planetary sciences as well as archeology paleoanthropology and biomedicine. The present study extends the scope of AMS to nuclear industry. Because AMS facilities are not widely accessible and difficult to handle, LLRN concentrations in nuclear waste are usually determined using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and radiometric techniques. However for the measurement of very low LLRN concentrations, AMS becomes the most effective measurement method with detection limits of 105–106 atoms per sample. In this study, AMS measurements were performed using the French AMS national facility ASTER located at the Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Géosciences de l’Environnement (CEREGE). The challenge was to define a chemical treatment procedure allowing the measurement of the three nuclides, 10Be, 41Ca and 129I, by AMS. Each method selection was based on three main requirements: 1) a quantitative recovery in solution of Be, Ca, I and key radionuclides after resin mineralization, 2) a selective extraction from the sample matrix and the separation from β-γ emitters (3H, 14C, 55Fe, 59Ni, 60Co, 63Ni, 90Sr, 125Sb, 134Cs, 137Cs) and isobars, 3) the precipitation of each element under the best suited forms (i.e. AgI, CaF2, BeO) for AMS measurements. The chosen methods were optimized on synthetic solutions and finally applied for the determination of the three LLRN concentrations in spent resins from a 900 MWe Nuclear Power Reactor.
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