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The long-held consensus that the more populated and "civilized" a society, the more complex their communication may be more nuanced than previously thought.
After systematically analyzing written and otherwise recorded evidence of shared information in prehispanic Mesoamerica over 3,000 years, two archaeologists say governance appears to be a more influential factor than society size in determining the complexity of computational communications.
They published their findings on February 10 in a special theme issue of the Journal of Social Computing focused on the collective computational abilities of prehistoric societies.
"Mesoamerica—much of today's Mexico and Central America—is considered one of the few places in the world that saw pristine development of writing systems, without input from other scripts," said paper author David M. Carballo, assistant provost for general education and associate professor of archaeology, anthropology, and Latin American studies at Boston University.
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Homo sapiens ventured into Neanderthal territory in Europe much earlier than previously thought, according to an archaeological study published in Science Advances on Wednesday.
Up to now, archaeological discoveries had indicated that Neanderthals disappeared from the European continent about 40,000 years ago, shortly after the arrival of their "cousin" Homo sapiens, barely 5,000years earlier and there was no evidence of an encounter between these two groups.
After the disappearance of her husband, a struggling farmer in an isolated Appalachian community discovers she is a pawn in a blood-soaked revenge plot and the only way out for her and her son could mean destroying a decades-old truce.
Writers: Lane Skye, Ruckus Skye
Runtime: 127
Country: USA