Anthropology.net

APRIL 17, 2025

. “This is the first time we’ve been able to document half a millennium of continuous, large-scale production of mollusk-based purple dye in a single place,” said Golan Shalvi, lead author of the study and director of excavations at the University of Haifa’s Zinman Institute of Archaeology. link] Mylona, D.

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APRIL 16, 2025

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. Despite their size, archaeological evidence suggests relatively even distribution of house sizes and public investment in civic infrastructure. "We

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

A new genetic and archaeological study 1 has revealed that leopard cats ( Prionailurus bengalensis ), small wild felines native to East Asia, lived alongside people in China’s early agrarian societies for at least 3,500 years—only to disappear from human settlements centuries before the arrival of domestic cats via the Silk Road.

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APRIL 23, 2025

The book draws on anthropologys four-field tradition to show how our ways of knowingwhether biological, linguistic, archaeological, or culturalare always shaped by politics, language, funding, and history. Facts dont float above culture; theyre produced within it. Its also a tool for making science itself more accountable.

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MARCH 17, 2025

Through a combination of archaeological surveys, petrographic analysis (studying the mineral composition of ceramics), and GIS-based spatial modeling, the research team identified distinct zones of pottery production and exchange. And in archaeology, they are often written in clay." In European Journal of Archaeology, 17(4), 602-633.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds. Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The event included performances of two Greek-themed modernist works by Martha Graham: Cave of the Heart (1946), Grahams retelling of the myth of Medea, and Errand , the companys 2013 version of Errand into the Maze (1947), a dance that draws on the myth of Theseus, Ariadne, and the Minotaur.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching?

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

While the answer remains elusive, a combination of archaeological and biological evidence provides clues, suggesting cooking may have begun as early as 2 million years ago. Archaeological Evidence: Fire Control and Cooking Sites The archaeological search for the origins of cooking hinges on evidence of fire control. Karkanas, P.,

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Archaeological evidence, particularly the presence of distinct microblade stone tools, has been used to argue for a northern migration. This question remains hotly contested, with evidence pointing to two possible routes: The Southern Route – following a coastal migration through South Asia and Southeast Asia before moving northward.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

With their research assistant notebooks in hand, students could virtually conduct in-depth science investigations on archaeological field sites for the Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU), study changes happening in the Uinta Mountains, and examine real dinosaur fossils from the world-renowned Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. “If

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Previous estimates of the island’s agricultural capacity varied widely, with one 2013 study 5 suggesting that between 4.9 This pre-European collapse narrative simply has no basis in the archaeological record.” Journal of Archaeological Science , 40 (6), 2859–2866. Science Advances , 10 (25). link] 2 Lipo, C.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 23, 2023

(B) Plan view of Coro Trasito cave, showing the location of the 2011 and 2013 test-pit and the area of the extended excavation. Credit: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology (2023). Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology , 2. The isocotes indicate every 20 cm. DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2023.1309907 1 Navarrete, V., Viñerta, A.,

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

At this archaeological hotspot, researchers 1 have unearthed fragments of rock and bone dating back a staggering 45,000 years, marking the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eastern Asia. A Multidisciplinary Exploration In 2013, a renewed effort led by paleoanthropologist Shi-Xia Yang launched a comprehensive investigation of the site.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

To help address the problem, in 2013 CUNY designated that three courses in each of its most popular majors would count toward requirements on every campus.). Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Parker wasn’t satisfied with what she considered “women’s work,” so Harrington taught her archaeological methods in the field. In 2013, she was a nominee to become the U.S. He hired Parker as a secretary and cook for the museum’s excavations of Pueblo Indian sites. Surgeon General.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Spanning over 250 individuals, the study integrates genetics with archaeological and dietary evidence, shedding new light on the egalitarian nature of LBK societies. Source: Torrossa , 2013. Source: BioRxiv , 2020.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Archaeological evidence for cannibalism in prehistoric Western Europe ( Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory ). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.06.003 2015.06.003 Saladié, P., & Rodríguez-Hidalgo, A. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-016-9287-6 Orschiedt, J.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

His environmental perspective on culture was unusual, as was his synthesis of comparative, secondary data from archaeological and ethnographic research. Steward’s theory: Steward created a theoretical perspective that was distinctive in mid-20th-century anthropology. Jon McGee and Richard L.

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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. In the summer of 1969, she rejoined the Franchthi Cave project and did a stint in Turkey at the archaeological site of Gordion.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This approach offered direct evidence of Clovis dietary habits, bypassing previous reliance on faunal assemblages and assumptions drawn from archaeological contexts. This reliance aligns closely with the hunting strategies inferred from Clovis archaeological sites, where mammoth remains often dominate faunal assemblages. Meltzer, D.

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