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When Mammoth Ivory Met Human Hands: Rethinking the Origins of Innovation

Anthropology.net

But what sets these artifacts apart is what they reveal: that some of our distant hominin ancestors were not just using stone—they were thinking beyond it. “That would place culture, in its earliest form, hundreds of thousands of years deeper into our past.” “These hominins weren’t just surviving. .

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Ancient Hierakonpolis: The Earliest Evidence of Livestock Horn Modification

Anthropology.net

This discovery reshapes our understanding of early animal domestication and its cultural significance in Predynastic Egypt. 2024.106104 The Discovery at Hierakonpolis Hierakonpolis, located about 100 kilometers from modern-day Luxor, was a thriving center of Predynastic Egyptian culture and an early hub of political power.

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The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

Anthropology.net

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. Many knotted artifacts remain tucked away in storage, undocumented and undigitized.

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David Cliff Grove

Anthropology News

In fall 1966 he took his young family to eastern Morelos state while he searched for sites with “Olmec”-style artifacts for his dissertation. He continued to produce more articles and book chapters, and was a fixture at professional meetings until 2015, when Parkinson’s disease began to slow him down.

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Developing a Recipe for Video Professional Development

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Share non-video artifacts. This last component type — non-video artifacts — is a great example of what you can learn by talking to your users. That “released in 2015” announcement coming soon. We discovered four common themes for how they structured learning: Reflect on one’s own video.

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Can private Pre-K for All providers survive in New York City?

The Hechinger Report

In a nod to the cultural heritage of its surrounding neighborhood, two displays feature Chinese-themed art, including pretty sprays of cherry blossoms and red and gold lanterns. It’s an artifact of the early childhood system; it’s grown up that way. The DoE has upped the game across the board with Pre-K for All.

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Ancient Craftsmanship: How Early North Americans Used Bone Needles to Survive Cold Climates

Anthropology.net

However, recent excavations led by the University of Wyoming's Todd Surovell and Wyoming State Archaeologist Spencer Pelton have revealed additional artifacts that deepen our understanding of life at this site, including the oldest known bead in the Americas, made from a hare bone. Source: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 2020.