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The Virtual Mystery Webtool: Open access online Hybridized Problem-based Learning

Teaching Anthropology

In PBL small groups of students work on a practical case study, both independently and collaboratively, to come up with open ended solutions (see Fukuzawa & Boyd, 2016). The VMP content spans the subfields of biological anthropology (evolutionary, primatology), and archaeology. Journal of Research and Practice of College Teaching.

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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

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. Three challenges in teaching anthropology. Teaching Anthropology 1 (2), pp.

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The Shape of a Face: What Neanderthal Growth Patterns Reveal About Human Evolution

Anthropology.net

"The midfaces of Neanderthals are on average already larger at birth than those of modern humans and continue growing for a longer period, contributing to their distinctive facial projection," explains lead author Alexandra Schuh of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Evolutionary Anthropology, 17 (1), 55-68.

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

Anthropology.net

Annual Review of Anthropology, 42, 103–119. Buried in the Sand: Archaeological and Anthropological Investigations of Indigenous Burial Traditions on Cape York Peninsula, Australia. J., & Watchman, A. The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia. link] Ross, J., Westaway, M., Travers, M., Morwood, M.

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

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Evolutionary Anthropology, 30 (4), 208-218. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 17 (4). Lycett, S. J., & Roos, C. The efficiency of stone tool production: Quantifying the effects of Levallois preparation." PLOS ONE, 11 (6), e0158002. link] Blinkhorn, J., & Grove, M. link] Samawi, O., & Hallinan, E.

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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

Anthropology for Beginners

Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn (2016) Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice. Click here for more details Aspects of the preservation and conservation of cultural intangibles include: folklore oral history language preservation Further reading: 1. New York: Thames and Hudson 2. Deborah M.Pearsall (Ed.) 2008) Encyclopedia of Archaeology.

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Stone, Silence, and Sand: New Evidence of Pleistocene Life in Iran’s Central Desert

Anthropology.net

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 62, 101292. “It’s only the beginning,” Hashemi concluded. “But it’s a beginning that matters.” ” Related Research: Vahdati Nasab, H., & Hashemi, M. Quaternary International, 408(part B), 140–152. Vahdati Nasab, H., & Petraglia, M.