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Paleoethnobotanical remains from basketry and cordage from the Paisley Caves offer an opportunity to explore how people engaged with plant communities over time. Fiber identification of textiles, together with radiocarbon dating, contributes new information about landscape use within the Summer Lake Basin. Expanded marshlands during the terminal Pleistocene / Early Holocene created suitable plant communities ideal for fiber technology, specifically wetland monocots and herbaceous dicots-including dogbane and stinging nettle-by 11,000 years ago. This technology is key to subsistence activities and craft production throughout the Holocene. Despite climatic events during the Middle Holocene, in which people transitioned from caves to sites centered on lakeshores and wetlands, the suite of fiber plants and their technological application remains constant. During the Late Holocene, bast fiber material diversified with the addition of flax and milkweed. The presence of flax in particular, a high-elevation plant, may reflect the increased use of upland root collection areas as populations increased. This research provides long-term data on culturally significant native plants used in the manufacture of fiber-based textiles over the last 14,000 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC and the WHO have recommended face masks as key to reducing viral transmission. Yet, in the USA, as the first wave erupted in the Summer of 2020, one-fifth of individuals said they wore masks at most "some of the time", and a majority said that people in their community wore masks at most "some of the time". What strategies most effectively encourage compliance with this critical COVID-19 prevention measure? Relying on social identity theory, we experimentally assess two possible mechanisms of compliance, elite endorsement, and social norms, among a representative sample of white US-born Evangelicals, a group that has shown resistance to prevention measures. We find evidence for both mechanisms, but social norms play a remarkably important role – increasing support for mask-wearing by 6% with spillover effects on other prevention guidelines. Our findings confirm the role that appeals to norms and elite endorsements play in shaping individual behavior and offer lessons for public health messaging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A compact, two-element textile MIMO antenna is designed with enhanced isolation by using modification in the ground, open-ended slots along with shorting pins. Maximum 27.8 dB isolation is achieved in two-element antennae, where the edge-to-edge distance is kept at 0.19 λ 0 which is less than the conventional half wavelength. The Y-shaped decoupling and shorting pins improve the isolation up to 14 dB and can mitigate the current moment between the two ports effectively. The open slots in the ground are enhancing the mutual impedance and shift the operating band of the antenna toward the lower frequency band and thus size miniaturization is also achieved. The textile antenna achieves a 10 dB impedance bandwidth from 4.24 to 5.38 GHz with more than 21.1 dB isolation in the entire band. The phantom wrist model and bending analysis are carried out with the textile antenna to validate the on-body effects of the antenna in wearable and 5G applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through their participation in an unequal Atlantic commerce, African merchants on the Gold Coast consciously transformed their dress in ways that expressed their cultural dynamism and economic success in an increasingly interconnected world. In discussing the web of cross-cultural commercial exchanges between Africa, Asia, and Europe, this article moves away from the tendency to regard Africans who adorned themselves in imported European clothing and textiles as 'creole' or 'Europeanized' elites. Labels like these not only assume the existence of an African cultural essence, but (inadvertently) deny the dynamism that has always characterized African cultures prior to the Atlantic economy. In the case of the Gold Coast, I examine how the Gã and Fante mercantile elite translated imported textiles and clothing into new cultural meanings, aesthetics and norms that emphasized family integrity, power as well as the ancestral, material and commercial value of inherited imported articles of adornment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A two-element textile antenna with high isolation and polarization diversity is presented for 5 G communications, wearable technology and biomedical cancer detection applications. The flexible material is used with an orthogonally placed microstrip-feed radiator antenna responsible for polarization diversity. High isolation and low correlation are achieved between antenna elements with defected ground-based on diagonal and open-stubs, which perturbs the surface current and facilitates the achievement of circular polarization. The 10 dB impedance bandwidth (| S 11|) of a two-element antenna varies from 3.3 to 4.3 GHz with more than 24 dB isolation (| S 21|). The envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) and channel capacity loss (CCL) of multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) antenna parameters are less than 0.2 and 0.35 bits/s/Hz respectively, which validates the diversity performance of the antenna. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-Imperialism. By Margaret M. Power. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. 308. $99.00 cloth; $32.95 paper; e-book $25.99.By E. Sue WamsleyReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

North Korea, Tricontinentalism, and the Latin American Revolution, 1959–1970. By Moe Taylor. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 227. $110.00 cloth; $110.00 e-book.By Yvon GrenierReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals: Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution. By Leigh Binford. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2022. Pp. 204. $120.00 cloth; $34.95 paper; $34.95 e-book; $34.95 PDF.By Anna L. PetersonReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant. By Seth Garfield. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2022. $99.00 cloth; $34.95 paper; $22.99 e-book.By Rosana BarbosaReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala. By Sarah Foss. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 316. $99.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $22.99 e-book.By Carmen KordickReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

Paternalism, Transgression and Slave Resistance in Brazil. By Robson Pedrosa Costa. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022. Pp. 208. $99.99 cloth; $99.99 e-book; $99.99 PDF.By James KrippnerReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837–1860. By Michael J. Alarid. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2022. Pp. 272. $65.00 cloth; $9.99 e-book.By Kris Klein HernándezReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

Aztec Antichrist: Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico. By Ben Leeming. Louisville : University Press of Colorado, 2022. Pp. 314. $100.00 cloth; $35.95 paper; $29.95 e-book.By Justyna OlkoReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

Graphs. Entangled Coercion: African and Indigenous Labour in Charcas (16th-17th Century). [Extracted from the article]

More Than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands. By Sabine Cadeau. [Extracted from the article]

Movements after Revolution: A History of People's Struggles in Mexico. By Miles V. Rodríguez. [Extracted from the article]

Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825. Edited by Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara Vicuña Guengerich. [Extracted from the article]

We investigate the errors caused by neglecting the crystal-orientation fabric when inferring the basal friction coefficient field, and whether such errors can be alleviated by inferring an isotropic enhancement factor field to compensate for missing fabric information. We calculate the steady states that arise from ice flowing over a sticky spot and a bedrock bump using a vertical-slab numerical ice-flow model, consisting of a Weertman sliding law and the anisotropic Johnson flow law, coupled to a spectral fabric model of lattice rotation and dynamic recrystallisation. Given the steady or transient states as input for a canonical adjoint-based inversion, we find that Glen's isotropic flow law cannot necessarily be used to infer the true basal drag or friction coefficient field, which are obscured by the orientation fabric, thus potentially affecting vertically integrated mass fluxes. By inverting for an equivalent isotropic enhancement factor, a more accurate mass flux can be recovered, suggesting that joint inversions for basal friction and the isotropic flow-rate factor may be able to compensate for mechanical anisotropies caused by the fabric. Thus, in addition to other sources of rheological uncertainty, fabric might complicate attempts to relate subglacial conditions to basal properties inferred from an inversion relying on Glen's law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left. By Jessica Stites Mor. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. [Extracted from the article]

Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City. By Diana J. Montaño. [Extracted from the article]

The aim of this report is to provide a summary of the latest developments in the textile archaeology of Greece and the broader Aegean from the Neolithic through to the Roman period, focusing in particular on recent research on textile tools. Spindle-whorls and loomweights appeared in the Aegean during the Neolithic and by the Early Bronze Age weaving on the warp-weighted loom was well established across the region. Recent methodological advances allow the use of the physical characteristics of tools to estimate the quality of the yarns and textiles produced, even in the absence of extant fabrics. The shapes of spindle-whorls evolved with the introduction of wool fibre, which by the Middle Bronze Age had become the dominant textile raw material in the region. The spread of discoid loomweights from Crete to the wider Aegean has been linked to the wider Minoanization of the area during the Middle Bronze Age, as well as the mobility of weavers. Broader issues discussed in connection with textile production include urbanization, the spread of different textile cultures and the identification of specific practices (sealing) and previously unrecognized technologies (splicing), as well as the value of textiles enhanced by a variety of decorative techniques and purple dyeing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Applying circle inversion on a square grid filled with circles, we obtain a configuration that we call a fabric of kissing circles. We focus on the curvature inside the individual components of the fabric, which are two orthogonal frames and two orthogonal families of chains. We show that the curvatures of the frame circles form a doubly infinite arithmetic sequence (bi-sequence), whereas the curvatures in each chain are arranged in a quadratic bi-sequence. We also prove a sufficient condition for the fabric to be integral. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to Childe, the Bronze Age in Europe is thought to be the first 'golden age' in European history. The development of metallurgy, clearly associated with the production of weapons, and the expansion of exchange networks covering all types of goods are considered essential in the process of consolidation of social elites, and, by extension, of social inequalities. The significance of textile production has, however, been undervalued as a specialized craft and as a manufacturing process that creates cultural differences and signals social inequalities. Being associated with domestic contexts rather than with specialized workshops, textile production in the eastern Iberian Peninsula has been underestimated; it is addressed here, as is its potential importance in societies immersed in a process of social stratification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As insignia of power and prestige, Inka unku (tapestry tunics) communicated the strength and extent of Inka sociopolitical hegemony in the Andes. Of the 36 known full-size examples in museum collections, only one, found in Argentina, comes from outside Peru. This article investigates another recently excavated unku found out of context on Chile's northernmost coast. To confirm its authenticity, we compiled a database showing the technical and stylistic attributes of previous finds for comparison. We conclude that this artifact is indeed a new type of unku and that the discovery affects our understanding of the complex relationship between the people of this province and the Inka state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba. By Elizabeth B. Schwall. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2021. $95.00 cloth; $34.95 paper; $27.99 e-book.By Robin MooreReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

Claiming Brazil: Performances of Citizenship in the Centenary of Independence. By Gregg Bocketti. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 312. $55.00 cloth; $52.25 e-book.By Gray F. KiddReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico. By Alberto García. Oakland : University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 260. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $25.00 e-book.By Claire WolnistyReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation. By Julia J. S. Sarreal. Oakland : University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 375. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $29.95 e-book.By Frederico FreitasReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

Joseph M. H. Clark. Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xviii+, 313. $110.00 cloth; $110.00 e-book.By Robert C. SchwallerReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan. By Stefan Rinke. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. ix, 315. Abbreviations, Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95 cloth.By Susan Elizabeth RamírezReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

IAN GILLIGAN. Climate, clothing, and agriculture in prehistory: linking evidence, causes, and effects. 2019. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1108-47008-7 71.99 [pounds sterling]. HEATHER HOPKINS & KATRIN KANIA (ed.). Ancient textiles, [...]

Reccopolis, in central Iberia, is the only archaeologically identified town founded by Germanic newcomers on Roman soil during the challenging socio-political and environmental circumstances of the mid to late sixth century AD. Despite archaeological investigations, doubts have persisted concerning the nature and size of Reccopolis. Recent geomagnetic survey, however, has revealed a dense urban fabric, unexpected new royal palace buildings, an extramural suburb and one of the potentially earliest Islamic mosques in Iberia. Reccopolis now stands as an exceptional example of early medieval urbanism that challenges our perceptions of urban development in sixth-century Europe. Keywords: Iberia, Reccopolis, early Islamic, Visigoths, geomagnetic, towns, Leovigild, Introduction Among the turbulent developments in sixth-century AD Iberia, contemporaneous reports that the Visigothic king Leovigild founded a new town at Reccopolis in the year 578 stand out, particularly as [...]

Abstract Interest groups and other organizations are crucial vehicles for voter mobilization, but variations in their capacities are not well understood. To clarify the ways in which vote mobilization capacities [...]

The article presents the results of the absolute dating of 31 pre-Columbian funerary bundles excavated on the Cerro Colorado site located in the northern part of the Peruvian Central Coast, where the Chancay culture developed in the last centuries before the Spanish invasion. The typical custom in this region was to wrap the dead with textiles and a vegetal material, by which the bundle was created. The funerary bundles of the Cerro Colorado differed in terms of the complexity, quantity and quality of the materials used (especially textiles and metal ornament). Before our project, there was not a single radiocarbon (14C) date for an undisturbed Chancay tomb, which made it impossible to understand the temporal dependency between the elaborated, standard, and modest bundles. Our results finally shed light on their proper chronological position, also demonstrating that the most elaborate bundles were created between the 13th and 15th centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses some of the insights that have been gained from the study of the textile tools from the Etruscan settlement of Poggio Civitate di Murlo and coeval textiles recovered from the adjacent cemetery site of Poggio Aguzzo di Murlo. Over 1,600 textile tools (including spindle whorls, loom weights, and spools) are analysed from a functional perspective, and results suggest that the textiles found in burials were likely produced at the site. This new information is discussed in light of other subsistence and craft activities documented at the settlement, all of which indicate an inward-oriented economy that catered to the local elites and the populations they controlled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses evidence from textiles, bamboo, and bronzes to explore what the elites wore, who made up the design communities behind the elites, and how luxurious these items were considered to be in 500–300 b.c.e. China. It first examines the reliability of the art historical sources available for the reconstruction of this history and cautions the readers against certain past interpretations of the textiles and accessories of the period. It then delineates a brief history of how certain textile patterns and weaving techniques developed and how their producers selected and obtained sources of inspiration and interacted and exchanged ideas with producers of other types of artifacts. It argues that textile designers seemed to favor certain types of sources and had formed their own distinct, though not impervious, community. After carefully examining the weaving techniques of several pieces of fabric, it proposes a means of building a more reliable and solid foundation for art historical reconstruction. Textiles and accessories were symbols of the wealth, status, and power of individuals who wore them. This article will explain how a combination of the production techniques of textiles and accessories, together with a sharing of designs and techniques within the community of producers, contributed to the formation of those symbols. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using textile production in Postclassic Western Mesoamerica as a case study, this article explores how to differentiate low levels of craft production caused by household provisioning from low levels of craft production due to market reliance and regional specialization. I use a sample of 52 excavated site/phase components to establish baselines for the intensity of production and to evaluate whether participation in the market allowed craftspeople in some regions to underproduce textiles relative to local needs. Highland and lowland sites have comparable low frequencies of spindle whorls during the Early Postclassic, which I interpret as characteristic of household self-sufficiency. Whorl frequencies increase above this baseline earlier and to a higher degree in lowland sites than in highland sites. During the Late Postclassic, some regions may have formed pairs of over- and underproduction zones linked by the market. Because of changes in spinning technology, it is not possible to extrapolate the results of this study to earlier time periods. I then present data from Calixtlahuaca as an example of how macroregional data can be used to interpret craft production at a particular site. Textile production at Calixtlahuaca was generally low, but this was more likely a function of a strong dependence on maguey fiber, rather than underproduction caused by a reliance on the market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hernán Cortés revisado: 500 años de la conquista española de México (1521-2021) Edited by Felix Hinz and Xavier López-Medellín. Madrid and Frankfurt: Iberoamericana and Vervuert, 2021. [Extracted from the article]

By Joshua Savala. Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World. [Extracted from the article]

On the Other Shore: The Atlantic Worlds of Italians in South American during the Great War. By John Starosta Galante. [Extracted from the article]

By Rosana Barbosa. Soccer and Racism: The Beginnings of Futebol in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1895-1933. [Extracted from the article]

By Edward P. Pompeian. Sustaining Empire: Venezuela's Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797-1828. [Extracted from the article]

Edited by Nathaniel Millett and Charles H. Parker. Jesuits and Race: A Global History of Continuity and Change, 1530-2020. [Extracted from the article]