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Grinding en route to sedentism: Plant processing in the 8 ka-BP southern Mongolian Plateau, China

Plant food exploitation has long been considered one of the most significant windows to understanding the process of sedentism. Two early Neolithic sites, Yumin (ca. 8,400-7,600 cal BP) and Simagou (ca. 7,500-7,000 cal BP), witnessed the earliest onset of a sedentary lifeway in t...

Interpretation at Risk: Post‑Interpretive Criticism After the 20th Century

This essay establishes Post‑Interpretive Criticism as a formal break with the dominant aesthetic consensus of the late twentieth century, which treated meaning as something produced through mediation rather than encountered through structure. Surveying post‑1950 traditions across...

Interpretation at Risk: Post-Interpretive Criticism After the 20th Century

Title: Interpretation at Risk: Post‑Interpretive Criticism After the 20th Century Author: Dorian Vale Affiliation: Museum of One — Registered Archive and Independent Research Institute for Contemporary Aesthetics Abstract: This essay establishes Post‑Interpretive Criticism as a f...