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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. Freitas, F.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Anthropologist Dr. Martin Smith describes how these findings add depth to archaeological interpretations: “Rather than simply seeing a set of skeletons, hidden aspects of these people’s lives and identities come into view as mothers, husbands, and daughters.” DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511521218 Olalde, I., Russell, M.,

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APRIL 4, 2025

In a new study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1 , researchers from institutions across Europe compiled the most comprehensive cross-cultural knot database to date. By analyzing 338 distinct knots from archaeological archives and museum collections, they discovered a surprisingly stable repertoire. Henrich, J.

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MARCH 26, 2024

2015: fig. © South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/Eurac/Samadelli/Staschitz. Reproduced by permission of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. Details of the Iceman's sixty-one carbon pigment tattoos (after Samadelli et al.,

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. 2019) and at raising learner satisfaction as they enjoy their courses more (Lumpkin et al.,

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Army Heritage and Education Center (4 times) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee, the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and the Museum of History and Innovation in Seattle, Washington have made these colloquia special. NCHE’s colloquium model brings together a team of scholars.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Source: Natural History Museum, London Rajiv McCoy, a computational geneticist at Johns Hopkins University, remarks, "It’s probably the most comprehensive picture we have to date of Neanderthal gene flow into modern human populations." Neanderthal and Homo sapiens reconstruction. Science (New York, N.Y.) , 372 (6538), 115–116.

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