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Painting Through Change: How Aboriginal Artists Reimagined Animal Life in a Shifting Holocene Landscape

Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

For decades, they were thought to be remnants of an earlier, Ice Age aesthetic, part of a vast visual tradition called the Irregular Infill Animal Period (IIAP). This recognition emerged from the Kimberley Visions project, a sweeping survey of over 1,100 archaeological sites across the Drysdale and King George River catchments.

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

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This research also challenges traditional views that associate prehistoric art solely with adults. Related Studies These articles provide diverse perspectives on children’s roles in prehistoric art, integrating developmental psychology, cognitive science, and archaeology. Journal : Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 2015.

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How Expanded Opportunities Drove Europe's First Mega-Settlements

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

From Philosophy to Archaeology: The Capability Approach The HDI, widely used today to evaluate well-being through health, education, and living standards, traces its roots to the capability approach developed by philosopher and economist Amartya Sen. Philosophy of archaeology. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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Tracing Maize’s Roots: Evidence of Domestication in South America

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Archaeological specimens of semi-domesticated maize (corn) were found in baskets buried in caves in Peruaçu Valley. Archaeological evidence indicates that maize spread to southwestern Amazonia approximately 6,000 years ago before eventually arriving in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley some 1,500 years ago.

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

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

Anthropology.net

MARCH 25, 2025

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

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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An Ode to Jonathan Marks, or How I Became a Marksist

Anthropology 365

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. He was asking anthropologists to stop pretending that science speaks for itself. Thats hard to picture.

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New Insights Challenge the “Ecocide” Theory of Easter Island

Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Their findings showed no evidence of a significant population decline before European arrival, instead suggesting that the islanders maintained their traditions and population levels until contact. Previous estimates of the island’s agricultural capacity varied widely, with one 2013 study 5 suggesting that between 4.9 Brosnan, T.,

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Insights from the Early Neolithic: Complex Livestock Practices in the High Mountain Settlements

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). Contrary to traditional beliefs, the team's findings showcased diversified livestock practices beyond transhumance. DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2023.1309907

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The Earliest Evidence of Homo Sapiens in Eastern Asia

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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Bearing the Weight of History

Anthropology.net

APRIL 25, 2025

At Abu Fatima, an ancient cemetery near the capital city of Kerma, a new study has taken a closer look at the skeletal remains of 30 individuals, unearthing physical traces of a world where the labor of women was essential, taxing—and all but erased from traditional historical narratives. Carballo-Pérez et al., Kusimba, C.

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Bones of Contention: New Evidence of Cannibalism in Magdalenian Culture

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

” Alternatively, the butchery of human remains could have been embedded within a complex mortuary tradition. 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.

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Painting Through Change: How Aboriginal Artists Reimagined Animal Life in a Shifting Holocene Landscape

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

An Ode to Jonathan Marks, or How I Became a Marksist

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