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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

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Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. Three challenges in teaching anthropology. Teaching Anthropology 1 (2), pp.

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Unveiling Homo juluensis: A New Chapter in Human Evolution

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Source: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2010. Source: Current Anthropology, 2017. Source: PNAS, 2012. Rabett, 2012. The Late Middle Pleistocene Hominin Fossil Record of East Asia Synthesizes evidence from the Middle Pleistocene, emphasizing morphological diversity and evolutionary trajectories. J., & Wu, X.

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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

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Intersectional Anthropology. Here, I share about my class, “Intersectional Anthropology,” and reflect on some of the ways it has played into my career, while also acknowledging my privileges as a person who holds a Ph.D. I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. I received my Ph.D.

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In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was Matrilineal

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In 2012, archaeologist Melanie Giles, from the University of Manchester, published her unparalleled analysis of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire burials , showing that some cemeteries were organized around larger, female founder burials. The post In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was Matrilineal appeared first on SAPIENS.

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The Taung Child at 100: Decolonizing the Origins of Paleoanthropology

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Current Anthropology , 53(S6), S000-S000. History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 28 (S6), 1–52. Shipman, P. The Man Who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois. Harvard University Press. DOI: 10.1086/662201. 1 Dart, R. link] 3 Tobias, P.

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The Stone Blades of Jebel Faya: Rewriting the Story of Early Humans in Arabia

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Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s12520-025-02164-z The findings, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , offer crucial insights into early human technology and adaptation. Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025). Related Research Bretzke, K.,

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The Journey of Homo sapiens into East Eurasia: What Ancient Genomes Reveal

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Journal of Physiological Anthropology , 44 (1). Human history is not just about where we came from but how we adapted to the ever-changing environments we encountered. DOI: 10.1038/nature13408 Meyer, M. A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual. DOI: 10.1126/science.1224344 1224344 1 Abood, S., & Oota, H.