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3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
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INTERDOC_15 — Astronomical Alignment as Global Pattern
Human civilizations on every inhabited continent independently developed monumental architecture precisely aligned to astronomical events — solstices, equinoxes, cardinal directions, and specific stellar risings. Newgran
ZB_1_12 — Animal Play Behavior
Play behavior — voluntary, seemingly purposeless activity involving modified versions of functional behaviors — is observed across mammals, many birds, and some reptiles, fish, and invertebrates, yet remains one of the m
ZB_4_16 — Mangrove Ecosystems
Mangroves are a group of approximately 70 species of salt-tolerant trees and shrubs that occupy the intertidal zone of tropical and subtropical coastlines worldwide, forming dense tidal forests that rank among the most p
ZB_4_05 — Urban Ecology: Nature in the City
Urban ecology studies the distribution, abundance, and interactions of organisms within cities and urbanized landscapes — environments that now house over 56% of humanity (projected ~68% by 2050) and cover ~3% of Earth's
ZB_3_19 — Permafrost Methane
Permafrost — permanently frozen ground maintained at or below 0°C for at least two consecutive years — underlies approximately 22% of the Northern Hemisphere land surface (about 23 million km²), primarily across Siberia,
ZC_5_14 — Sociology of Incarceration: Mass Imprisonment, the Carceral State, and Abolition
The sociology of incarceration examines imprisonment as a social institution — analyzing its functions, history, racial and class dimensions, effects on individuals and communities, and its relationship to broader struct
ZC_1_07 — Behavioral Economics — Nudge Theory & Decision-Making
Behavioral economics integrates psychological insights into economic models of human decision-making, challenging the neoclassical assumption of perfectly rational "Homo economicus" and documenting systematic deviations
ZC_1_12 — Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology applies psychological principles to workplace behavior — encompassing personnel selection, performance evaluation, motivation, leadership, organizational culture, team dynamics,
ZC_1_06 — Social Identity & Group Dynamics — Tajfel, Sherif
Social identity theory and its predecessor, realistic conflict theory, provide the dominant scientific frameworks for understanding how humans form group identities and how intergroup conflict arises.
ZC_4_07 — Childhood and the Anthropology of Growing Up
The anthropology of childhood — the cross-cultural study of how children are conceived of, raised, taught, disciplined, initiated, and transformed into culturally competent adults — challenges the assumption that childho
ZC_4_02 — Kinship Systems and Social Organization Across Cultures
Kinship — the system of social relationships and categories through which human societies classify relatives, define obligations, regulate marriage, organize inheritance, and structure political authority — is the founda
ZC_4_08 — Structuralism in Social Science — Lévi-Strauss to Bourdieu
Structuralism — the intellectual movement that sought to uncover the deep, universal structures underlying the surface diversity of human cultures, languages, myths, kinship systems, and social institutions — was the dom
ZC_2_13 — Economic Sociology and Markets
Economic sociology examines how social structures, institutions, and cultural meanings shape economic life — rejecting the neoclassical assumption that markets operate according to purely rational, self-interested calcul
ZC_2_03 — Intergenerational & Collective Trauma
Intergenerational trauma refers to the transmission of traumatic effects from one generation to the next — a phenomenon observed across populations including Holocaust survivor families, Indigenous communities subjected
ZC_2_14 — Sociology of the Family
Sociology of the family examines how families are structured, how they function as social institutions, and how they have transformed historically. Talcott Parsons (1955) theorized the mid-20th-century American nuclear f
G_4_13 — HADD and Agency Detection — Why We See Beings Everywhere
The Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD) — a term coined by cognitive scientist Justin Barrett (2000) building on work by Stewart Guthrie (1993) and Pascal Boyer (2001) — refers to the proposed cognitive mechanism
G_4_11 — Archaeoastronomy Methods and Systematic Evidence
Archaeoastronomy — the study of how past civilizations understood, observed, and used astronomical phenomena — has matured from a field plagued by speculative alignment claims into a rigorous interdisciplinary discipline
G_4_08 — Graham Hancock — Data-Driven Evaluation of Claims
Graham Hancock (b. 1950, Edinburgh) is a British journalist and author who has become the most prominent advocate of the "lost civilization" hypothesis — the idea that an advanced civilization existed before the end of t
G_4_14 — Replication Crisis and What It Means for Ancient Claims
The replication crisis refers to the discovery, beginning in the early 2010s, that a substantial proportion of findings published in peer-reviewed scientific journals — particularly in psychology, social science, and bio
G_4_01 — Modern Conspiracy Analysis
The modern reptilian conspiracy theory did not emerge from ancient tradition — it was manufactured through a specific chain of publications mixing fiction, theosophy, and selective ancient citation. Robert E. Howard's 19
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