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It’s Time to Replace “Prehistory” With “Deep History”

Sapiens

Humans huddled in caves. This approach to archaeological research places value on the continuous cultural and social development of humans. This shift, along with the construction of extensive terraces, enabled the Ifugao to consolidate their economic and political power in the highlands. Dinosaurs roaming ancient landscapes?

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Rethinking Inequality: What 50,000 Ancient Homes Tell Us About Power, Wealth, and Human Choices

Anthropology.net

From the sprawling villas of Roman elites to the thatched huts of the poor in medieval Europe, textbook history often presents wealth disparity as a consequence of human progress. In fact, some large and politically complex societies maintained surprisingly modest levels of economic disparity. Three excavated Classic period (ca.

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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The Architecture of Inequality

Anthropology.net

Long before pharaohs ruled and scribes recorded human affairs, the seeds of economic disparity had already taken hold. By applying the Gini coefficient—a widely used metric for measuring inequality—to house sizes, the study created a cross-cultural snapshot of economic disparity over 10,000 years. link] 1 Kohler, T.

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Farming Inequality: How Ancient Land Use Split Societies

Anthropology.net

For at least 10,000 years, humans have worked the land to feed families, build communities, and form civilizations. A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers 1 one of the most detailed archaeological analyses to date of the roots of economic inequality. Human Nature , 29(3), 203–219.

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Analysis: hundreds of colleges and universities show financial warning signs

The Hechinger Report

Think of the revenue shocks these universities are suffering,” said Gregory Price, an economics and finance professor at the University of New Orleans, noting that if students aren’t on campuses for the coming academic year or choose not to attend at all, schools could miss out on even more. We’re treading water and there’s no raft. “A

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OPINION: Want to save the beleaguered English major? Abandon it.

The Hechinger Report

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that.