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Rethinking Levallois: A 3D Look at the Precision of Middle Stone Age Tool-making

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These tools, characterized by a prepared-core technique that allowed for precise flake removal, have long been studied using traditional measurements. This new study offers a different lens: analyzing the entire three-dimensional structure of the core to assess how shape is controlled across different regions and tradition.

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Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School

Teaching Anthropology

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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Children as Artists: A New Perspective on Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

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This research also challenges traditional views that associate prehistoric art solely with adults. Book Chapter : Art and Human Development , 2013. Link : Taylor & Francis Summary : Integrates developmental psychology and social anthropology to decode artistic remains from the Upper Paleolithic.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

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iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old.

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Bones of Contention: New Evidence of Cannibalism in Magdalenian Culture

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Cut Marks and Cracked Bones: The Case for Cannibalism Maszycka Cave is not new to the anthropological world. ” Alternatively, the butchery of human remains could have been embedded within a complex mortuary tradition. And what does this tell us about the social structure of Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers?

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Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School

Teaching Anthropology

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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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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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.