ORCID Profile
0000-0002-0743-4026
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Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar Pakistan
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Archaeology | Archaeology | Archaeology of Europe the Mediterranean and the Levant | Proteomics and intermolecular interactions (excl. medical proteomics) | Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Archaeological science | Archaeological Science | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology |
Understanding Australia's Past | Understanding Asia's Past | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2023
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
Date: 22-04-2021
DOI: 10.15184/AQY.2021.39
Abstract: Secret societies, involving restricted and hierarchically organised initiation rituals, are conspicuous in the chronicles of many past and present societies. These rarely leave a substantial written record and yet archaeology can provide vivid insight into past performances, for ex le in relation to Roman ‘mystery cults’. Far less research, however, has focused on Australia and the Pacific Islands. This article presents archaeological evidence for ceremonies practised on Woeydhul Island in the Western Torres Strait, exploring initiation rituals at the cusp of contemporary memory. By doing so, it provides a detailed and long-term history for Torres Strait Islander secret societies and ritual activities involving dugong bone mounds, stone arrangements and worked stingray spines.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2024
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 24-08-2022
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0267635
Abstract: Burial elaborations are a human behaviour that, in recent contexts can inform on social ersification, belief systems, and the introduction of new practices resulting from migration or cultural transmission. The study of mortuary practices in Mainland and Island Southeast Asia has revealed complex and erse treatments of the deceased. This paper contributes to this topic with the description of three new burials excavated in Tron Bon Lei (Alor Island, Indonesia) dated to 7.5, 10, and 12 kya cal BP. In addition to the bioskeletal profiles and palaeohealth observations, we propose the adoption of archaeothanatological methods to characterise burial types in the region. Through the analysis of skeletal element representation, body position, articulation, and grave associations, we provide an ex le of a holistic approach to mortuary treatments in the Lesser Sunda Islands. Our results provide significant new data for understanding the evolution and ersification of burial practices in Southeast Asia, contributing to a growing body of literature describing prehistoric socio-cultural behaviour in this region.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 12-2017
DOI: 10.1086/694252
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 31-08-2020
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Date: 30-09-2009
DOI: 10.5565/REV/TDA.38
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-03-2022
Publisher: The Australian National University
Date: 2019
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date: 19-04-2023
DOI: 10.1145/3592794
Abstract: Emotion identification from text has recently gained attention due to its versatile ability to analyze human-machine interaction. This work focuses on detecting emotions from textual data. Languages, like English, Chinese, and German are widely used for text classification, however, limited research is done on resource-poor oriental languages. Roman Urdu (RU) is a resource-constrained language extensively used across Asia. This work focuses on predicting emotions from RU text. For this, a dataset is collected from different social media domains and based on Paul Ekman's theory it is annotated with six basic emotions, i.e., happy, surprise, angry, sad, fear, and disgusting. Dense word embedding representations of different languages is adopted that utilize existing pre-trained models. BERT is additionally pre-trained and fine-tuned for the classification task. The proposed approach is compared with baseline machine learning and deep learning algorithms. Additionally, a comparison of the current work is also performed with different approaches for the same task. Based on the empirical evaluation, the proposed approach performs better than the existing state-of-the-art with an average accuracy of 91%.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-04-2020
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-020-15969-4
Abstract: The resource-poor, isolated islands of Wallacea have been considered a major adaptive obstacle for hominins expanding into Australasia. Archaeological evidence has hinted that coastal adaptations in Homo sapiens enabled rapid island dispersal and settlement however, there has been no means to directly test this proposition. Here, we apply stable carbon and oxygen isotope analysis to human and faunal tooth enamel from six Late Pleistocene to Holocene archaeological sites across Wallacea. The results demonstrate that the earliest human forager found in the region c . 42,000 years ago made significant use of coastal resources prior to subsequent niche ersification shown for later in iduals. We argue that our data provides clear insights into the huge adaptive flexibility of our species, including its ability to specialize in the use of varied environments, particularly in comparison to other hominin species known from Island Southeast Asia.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-03-2022
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-03-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2019
DOI: 10.1016/J.JHEVOL.2019.07.002
Abstract: The migration of anatomically modern humans (AMH) from Africa to every inhabitable continent included their dispersal through Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) to Australia. Significantly, this involved overwater dispersal through the Lesser Sunda Islands between Sunda (continental Southeast Asia) and Sahul (Australia and New Guinea). However, the timing and direction of this movement is still debated. Here, we report on human skeletal material recovered from excavations at two rockshelters, known locally as Tron Bon Lei, on Alor Island, Indonesia. The remains, dated to the Late Pleistocene, are the first anatomically modern human remains recovered in Wallacea dated to this period and are associated with cultural material demonstrating intentional burial. The human remains from Tron Bon Lei represent a population osteometrically distinct from Late Pleistocene Sunda and Sahul AMH. Instead, morphometrically, they appear more similar to Holocene populations in the Lesser Sundas. Thus, they may represent the remains of a population originally from Sunda whose Lesser Sunda Island descendants survived into the Holocene.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2023
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date: 23-10-2023
DOI: 10.1145/3628430
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Date: 22-05-2015
DOI: 10.5565/REV/TDA.49
Location: Pakistan
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2024
End Date: 12-2026
Amount: $456,802.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 06-2013
End Date: 06-2018
Amount: $3,147,123.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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