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MARCH 25, 2025

The results challenge long-held assumptions about how early humans controlled tool shape and suggest that the differences in Levallois core designs may be more influenced by cultural traditions than previously thought​ Why Levallois Technology Matters Levallois technology represents a milestone in human cognitive and technological evolution.

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APRIL 4, 2025

But beyond their everyday function of fastening and securing, knots hold something deeper: a story about the evolution of human cognition, the flow of culture, and the quiet persistence of shared technique across continents and millennia. Encoding Entanglement—How Math Helped Map Knots Knots rarely survive in the archaeological record.

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APRIL 23, 2025

The book dismantles the idea that genetic similarity can explain what makes us humanor that genes can do the cultural and historical work of explaining behavior, intelligence, or social life. Facts dont float above culture; theyre produced within it. He was asking anthropologists to stop pretending that science speaks for itself.

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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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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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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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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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JUNE 23, 2024

Scholars have long debated the cultural significance of these statues and the methods used by a Stone Age society to transport them, with some weighing as much as 92 tons. Previous estimates of the island’s agricultural capacity varied widely, with one 2013 study 5 suggesting that between 4.9 Arian Zwegers/CC BY 2.0 Brosnan, T.,

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MAY 12, 2025

A genomic map layered not only with centuries of migrations and admixture, but also with lessons for how ancestry—understood through the language of DNA—shapes and is shaped by human history, cultural geography, and inequality. King Jordan. This has implications beyond genomics. Cell, 177 (1), 58–69. link] Hellenthal, G.,

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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. NO SOCIAL LIFE.

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APRIL 25, 2025

The research, led by Jared Carballo and Uroš Matić, now published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 1 , is a reminder that human history is often told through what survives—but also what is overlooked. Carriers of Memory The archaeological record is full of silences. Carballo-Pérez et al., Kusimba, C.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

“Cannibalism was an integral practice within the cultural systems of these Magdalenian groups,” the authors write. “The presence of cultural modifications may be related in more cases than expected to the consumption of the bodies, in other words, to human cannibalism.” DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.06.003

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Early Neolithic farmers, known for their distinct Linear Pottery Culture (Linearbandkeramik, or LBK), expanded rapidly across the region. Map of the LBK culture and the studied sites. The Violent Collapse of the LBK Culture By 5000 BCE, the Linear Pottery Culture began to decline, marked by episodes of violence and social upheaval.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE Cultural Ecology and Julian Steward: Table of Contents Cultural Ecology and Julian Steward: 1 Steward’s theory: 1 Arrival of Culture ecology. The cultural ecologists speak about an intimate relationship between culture and environment.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

Discovered alongside an extraordinary assemblage of Clovis artifacts—bone tools, projectile points, and red ochre—this burial site has been a key to understanding the Clovis culture. A Broader Impact on Ecology and Culture Technology and Mobility Clovis toolkits reflect their focus on large game.

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