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    <title><![CDATA[Unearthing the Kalahari's Long Human History]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A short summary of Benjamin Schoville's work exploring Tswalu for Earlier and Middle Stone Age evidence of human behavior. Originally published at TSWALU FOUNDATION.]]></description>
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    <author>blog@thequantlab.org (Ben Schoville)</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Volunteer Profile]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A short reflection on service, professional community, and why volunteering matters within archaeology. Originally published at SAA Archaeological Record.]]></description>
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    <author>blog@thequantlab.org (Erik Otárola-Castillo)</author>
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    <title><![CDATA[Monico Origins, a Bayesian Story]]></title>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2022/10/10/monico-origins-a-bayesian-story/</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[A public-facing account of how the Monico Bayesian story emerged and why simple narrative examples can help explain Bayesian inference in archaeology. Originally published at Cambridge Core Blog.]]></description>
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    <author>blog@thequantlab.org (Erik Otárola-Castillo)</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[3D scanning: we recreated a sacred South African site in a way that captures its spirit]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A short piece on digital reconstruction, place, and how 3D methods can communicate archaeological landscapes beyond conventional site photography. Originally published at The Conversation.]]></description>
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    <author>blog@thequantlab.org (Ben Schoville and collaborators)</author>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ancient southern Kalahari was more important to human evolution than previously thought]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[An accessible explanation of why the southern Kalahari matters for human evolutionary history and how new archaeological evidence reshapes older assumptions. Originally published at The Conversation.]]></description>
    <category><![CDATA[Human Evolution]]></category>
    <author>blog@thequantlab.org (Ben Schoville and collaborators)</author>
    <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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