Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Cut Marks and Cracked Bones: The Case for Cannibalism Maszycka Cave is not new to the anthropological world. And what does this tell us about the social structure of Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers? Excavations have taken place since the 19th century, with researchers uncovering a mix of human and animal remains. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.06.003

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

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. And as we continue to uncover more ancient genomes, our understanding of human history will only deepen. Related Research Fu, Q., Meyer, M., & Pääbo, S.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Picture 2: A group of SWP field school students enjoy a well-deserved break to pat a local cat fascinated with their survey work in the UTM forest (Photo Credit: Susannah Clinker) Since 2013, the field school has evolved with Dr. Brand and Dr. Orchard at its core.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 17, 2025

"The study of pottery production and distribution provides a unique perspective on how political and economic boundaries were established in the European Bronze Age," says Adrià Moreno Gil, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and lead author of the study. In European Journal of Archaeology, 17(4), 602-633.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Glimpse into the Evolution of Speech The evolution of human speech remains one of the most fascinating mysteries in anthropology and genetics. Future research using other primates or human-derived brain organoids might provide deeper insights. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00397 2013.00397 Lai et al.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Intended Readership The book is intended for scholars and students in anthropology, environmental studies, and animal studies, particularly those with interests in human-environment relations, multispecies ethnography, and human-animal relations. With this stance in mind, javelina behavior can be understood in a new light.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Tibetan community in Vancouver includes approximately 700 people, more than 200 of whom migrated from four settlements in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to Canada through a federal refugee resettlement program between 2013 and 2017. These refugees entered Canada with complex linguistic repertoires.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Another pair of us (Renita and Jen) initiated the Meeting Ethnography project back in 2013.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Origins of Risky Play: A Legacy from Early Humans Co-author Zane Thayer, associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth, explains that although children today are physically safer than ever before, societal anxiety about injuries has never been higher. ” The researchers connect this concept to our evolutionary history.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. And universities collectively jettisoned 651 programs in languages between 2013 and 2016, the MLA reports, compared to only one in the four years before that.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The number of college students with one or more mental health problems has doubled since 2013 , according to a study by researchers at Boston University and elsewhere. Some of the momentum behind un-grading is in response to growing concerns about student mental health. By comparison, she said, higher-income classmates “had Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2017

Animata Diop completes an assignment in anthropology class. NEW YORK — Aminata Diop, a senior at Broome Street Charter Academy in Lower Manhattan, slipped out of her anthropology class and headed down the school’s spiral staircase, her North Face backpack slung over her shoulder. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Richard Wrangham, a retired professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, noted 2 that starch grains can be detected in teeth dating back at least 50,000 years. Cooked starch grains found in the hardened dental plaque, or dental calculus, of ancient humans offer one of the more direct lines of evidence for early cooking.

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APRIL 11, 2023

In the 2013 discovery of Homo naledi , Dr. Lee Berger and his meticulous team of scholars and technicians had to crawl, wiggle, and squeeze through a cave to arrive at the chamber containing more than 1500 specimens belonging to at least fifteen individuals. They seek out the dead and then treat them like sacred beings.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As the American Academy of Arts and Science’s 2013 “The Heart of the Matter” report observes, connecting these fields is necessary to solve the world’s biggest problems such as “the provision of clean air and water, food, health, energy, universal education, human rights, and the assurance of physical safety.”.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 19, 2024

1944–2023 Karen Donne (Kaddee) Vitelli died on September 12, 2013, at the age of 79 in the town of Dresden, Maine, where she had been living since her retirement from Indiana University in 2006. Allen) The post Karen Donne (Kaddee) Vitelli appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

It was 2013, and I was on my first trip to Colombia. After my first trip to Colombia in 2013, I began to grapple with this question. Joseph Feldman is the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology section editor. The post Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times appeared first on Anthropology News.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

After interning at Goldman Sachs, Cemaloglu took a job with ReD Associates, a consulting firm with an anthropological research spin that he could morally get behind. Louis in 2013. As more pursue corporate jobs, notes Cengiz Cemaloglu, one of the Harvard forum organizers, there is often “judgment in the air” from peers.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Previously, she was NPS chief historian for the southeast region, managing history and cultural anthropology programs for 67 national parks, and earlier served as regional program manager for the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. Turkiya Lowe is National Park Service national chief historian. Motley, Jr.,

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2013. The post ​​​“Å falle mellom to stoler”: Africans in Norway appeared first on Anthropology News. July 1, 2010. link] (accessed February 7, 2023). Treitler, Vilna Bashi. The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions. Wendelborg, Heidi Brandt. “‘Kom

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APRIL 11, 2023

Following Iris Marion Young (2013), I consider the role that difference plays in defining a community. In the case of Roger’s property, I ask what happens when encounters are continually successfully negotiated and become intimate, affective relationships.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Current Anthropology, 26(2), 223–246. Current Anthropology, 50(1), 51–74. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1401949111 1401949111 Investigates the cooperative division of labor between sexes and its role in extending human life history traits. Jaeggi, A. Kaplan, H., & Cummings, D. PLOS ONE, 8(1), e55679. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0055679

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Steward’s theory: Steward created a theoretical perspective that was distinctive in mid-20th-century anthropology. His theoretical ideas were the antithesis of humanistic and relativistic trends in cultural anthropology at the time. Over time, it became a unifying concept in American anthropology, spanning several subfields.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This online database is free, thanks to the department of cultural and linguistic evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. Perhaps the best known is Glottolog. It claims to be a “comprehensive catalog,” and it promises that “any variety that a linguist works on should eventually get its own entry.”

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.

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