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Auditable Authenticity: A Four-Domain Conjunctive Rule for Chinese White Porcelain, Benchmarked Against Machine Learning on Published Archaeometric Data

This paper proposes an auditable, non-compensatory conjunctive rule for authenticating Chinese white porcelain across four evidence domains that, while slightly less accurate than black-box machine learning models, achieves comparable performance when restricted to calibrated high-confidence predictions, thereby offering a transparent alternative that exposes the corroboration structure of every judgment.

Shidong Li2026-10-23

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Evidence for embalming of the head and transnasal craniotomy in ancient Egypt from Predynastic to Roman times

This study analyzes 22 ancient Egyptian individuals using radiocarbon dating, chemical analysis, and CT scanning to reveal that complex organic embalming mixtures and diverse cranial interventions, including transnasal craniotomy, were employed from the Predynastic to Roman periods to balance ritual, technical, and symbolic preservation of the head.

Rivka Chasan, Safoora Kamjan, Michael W. Dee, Federico Cesarani, Scott D. Haddow, Gianluigi Mangiapane, Cecilia Pennacin (…)2026-10-23

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Recognizing the heritage behind Hugo Díaz’s caricature for the Costa Rican children’s novel Cocorí using non-destructive techniques

This study employs non-destructive techniques to assess the conservation state of Hugo Díaz's caricature for the Costa Rican novel *Cocorí*, successfully mapping degradation zones, isolating microbial strains, and identifying the original pigment palette to establish a baseline for its preservation.

Johnny Buzo-Chacón, Roberto Montero-De la Paz, Laura Raabe-Cercone, Daniela Jaikel-Víquez, Alejandra Gómez-Arrieta, Stef (…)2026-10-23

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Trope Mereology: A Response to Robert K. Garcia’s Gap Challenges

This paper defends Trope Bundle Theory against Robert K. Garcia's "gap" challenges by reinterpreting module tropes as particular characters rather than charactered things, thereby demonstrating the theory's capacity to explain object composition while establishing new principles of trope mereology.

Jason Krontiras2026-10-23

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From Practice to Performance:A Formally Verified Theory of OrganizationalCapability and Autonomy

This paper introduces RCAS, a formally verified theory in Lean 4 that decomposes the link between organizational practice and performance into explicit mechanisms, defining a multi-dimensional performance profile and proving that while knowledge diffusion enhances volume and resilience, only capability creation can raise the performance ceiling.

Franny Philos Sophia2026-10-22

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Artificial Moral Agents for Autonomous Weapons Systems

This paper investigates the design of a conceptual framework for utilizing Artificial Moral Agents (AMAs) within Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS) to address the challenges of applying International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and establishing Meaningful Human Control (MHC) in modern military operations.

Antonio Pedro Marin Martinez2026-10-22

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Architecture as an Evolving Infrastructure: Adaptability and Exaptation in Southeastern European Socialist Mass Housing

This paper reframes socialist mass housing in Southeastern Europe as a dynamic, evolving infrastructure by applying the concept of exaptation to demonstrate how residents in Skopje have informally adapted modular designs to meet neoliberal housing pressures, ultimately advocating for incremental, community-led transformations over demolition to address contemporary affordability crises.

Ludovica Rolando2026-10-21

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Chu-style bronze vessels from the Chengdu Plain during the Eastern Zhou period: insights into Shu–Chu relations from a material circulation perspective

This study analyzes Chu-style bronze vessels from the Chengdu Plain to trace the evolution of Shu–Chu relations during the Eastern Zhou period, revealing a shift from Chu-dominated imports to intensified local imitation driven by geopolitical conflict, before a sharp decline following the Qin conquest.

Zhen Yang, Xiaotian Zeng, Xiaohan Zhang, Gang Qiao2026-10-19

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Exclusion Internalized: The Necessity of the Powers-Based Response in Russellian Monism

This paper argues that because the contingency of grounding in Russellian monism renders standard compatibilist anti-exclusion strategies inapplicable and confirms epiphenomenalism, only powers-based views that eliminate this contingency can coherently resolve the theory's internal exclusion problem.

abdurrazak gültekin2026-10-16

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Prinz August Wilhelm (1918): Site Formation Processes and Preservation of a First World War Shipwreck in the Colombian Caribbean

This non-intrusive study documents the archaeological condition and preservation status of the 1918 scuttled German steamship *Prinz August Wilhelm* in Puerto Colombia Bay, utilizing a multi-source approach to analyze site formation processes and underwater heritage management in dynamic tropical coastal environments.

Juan Guillermo Martín, Eduardo Roa, Julián Blanco, Julián Lázaro2026-10-15