Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For decades, the story of how human pigmentation changed as Homo sapiens spread across Europe has been told in broad strokes. Early humans arrived from Africa with dark skin, and as they adapted to lower UV radiation in northern latitudes, their skin lightened—a simple narrative of evolutionary selection. DOI: 10.1006/jhev.2000.0403

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Excavations at Bété I uncovered a striking connection between early humans and a wet tropical forest environment, dated to approximately 150,000 years ago using advanced dating techniques such as optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and electron spin resonance (ESR). Their conclusion?

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2025

The narrative of human technological advancement has long positioned metallurgy as a hallmark of settled agricultural societies. Credit: Gre Fılla Excavation / Özlem Ekinbaş Can The Gre Fılla Site: A Window into Prehistoric Innovation Nestled in the upper Tigris Valley, Gre Fılla has been under excavation since 2018.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

During the African Humid Period (14,500–5,000 years ago), this region supported thriving human populations. Their findings, recently published in Nature , challenge existing models of early human migration and isolation in North Africa. Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Discovery in the Desert The story of human migration is often told in sweeping arcs—great waves of Homo sapiens leaving Africa, moving into Eurasia, and eventually populating the entire planet. Instead, we provide new chronometric data indicating human presence at the end of the MIS 5 humid period, around 80,000 years ago."

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Neanderthals vs. Modern Humans: Who Made What? Meanwhile, the Uluzzian industry has long been associated with modern humans. Human teeth from Uluzzian layers at Grotta del Cavallo in Italy have been identified as Homo sapiens , reinforcing the idea that this tool tradition belonged to the first wave of modern humans entering Europe.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

Thus, small children were considered particularly suited to bridging the gap between the worlds and delivering messages to non-human entities."​ ​ Conclusion The enigmatic presence of children's contributions in Paleolithic cave art offers a glimpse into the complex tapestry of prehistoric life.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

How can teachers learn from the practices and principles of youth organizing to create more humanizing, engaging and empowering classrooms? The process of asking questions, listening and building campaigns around these stories is what makes youth organizing such a humanizing experience.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

We hope to share some of these examples at the SXSW and SXSW EDU conferences in March 2018 – but first, we need your help. The post Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas appeared first on Digital Promise. This year, Digital Promise has proposed a record 15 (!) Can Students Create VR? Short Answer: Yes!

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

That lack of disturbance makes it an exceptional place to study how humans occupied the region during the final millennia of the Upper Paleolithic. The presence of butchery marks on many of these bones suggests that humans actively hunted and processed animals at the site. Indeterminate bone with a short cut mark; C.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The error perhaps was in believing that this was a single event in a linear, evolutionary understanding of humanity through time. Nonetheless, recent ancient DNA work is now revealing patrilineal descent for some Neolithic groups in Britain. A reconstructed roundhouse gives a sense of what structures in the Iron Age looked like.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

Roberts (@DoctorDRoberts) July 17, 2018. — Frank Bonsal III (@FrankBonsal) July 17, 2018. — The ExCITe Center (@excitecenter) July 17, 2018. — Carly Croman (@carly_croman) July 17, 2018. — Sunanna T Chand (@SunannaC) July 17, 2018. This is the path to true change and growth!

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

A Glimpse into Europe’s Earliest Settlers Over 45,000 years ago, small groups of modern humans roamed the icy expanse of Ice Age Europe. Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

It exemplifies how ancient populations balanced coexistence and diversity, paving the way for future exploration of genetic and cultural intersections in human history. Related Research **Pohl, W. “The Avars: A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567–822.” ” Cornell University Press. ” Nature Communications.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

The presence of this distinctive technology so far from its previously known origins raises new questions about ancient human migrations, cultural exchange, and independent innovation. Future research will focus on finding human remains associated with Longtan’s artifacts. Or, more likely, could we find a Denisovan?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It suggests the importance of relationships and human connection in the teaching profession. 2007; Klassen, Perry & Frenzel, 2012; McIlveen & Perera, 2016; Perera, Granziera, et al., Many aspects of a teacher’s work can function to increase or decrease their engagement.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes." Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 19 , 263-289. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-083117-021749 Discusses how ancient DNA is reshaping our understanding of human migration and cultural change. Related Research de Barros Damgaard, P., Rasmussen, S., Veeramah, K.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Search for Early Symbolic Expression For decades, archaeologists have debated the origins of symbolic thought in early humans. Was it an innovation exclusive to modern humans, or did our distant relatives also engage in abstract expression? Symbolic behavior in early humans is often difficult to identify with certainty.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

When he was released in 2018, Maxis immediately applied for a masters program at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health. Since 2022 , shes been pursuing an associates degree in human services from prison through a remote program with Washington County Community College. She’s now recovered.)

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 26, 2025

The Forgotten Migrant When thinking about humanity’s migrations across continents, yeast is probably the last traveler that comes to mind. By examining over 300 genomes from yeast living quietly on the bark of oak and other trees, the team found that these seemingly wild populations are anything but untouched by human history.

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MAY 7, 2024

Discovered in 2018 in the Shanidar Cave of Iraqi Kurdistan, her remains have sparked fascination and intrigue among researchers seeking to unravel the mysteries of human evolution. Researchers unearthed the skull used in the reconstruction in 2018. Shanidar cave in Iraqi Kurdistan was first excavated in the 1950s.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. 2018) Family trees, selfies and our search for identity. New York: Penguin Random House. Nicolson, P.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

A photo from a 2018 report shows a teacher using Lumilo smart glasses, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in an experiment. Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2018

“There are only two ways to influence human behavior,” Sinek says, “you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.” I hope this exercise serves to ground other educators as we begin 2018! What are we passionate about? Explaining what we do is a lot simpler than putting our why into words. Happy New Year!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: We’ve known for quite some time that pollution is bad for your health but researchers are documenting how it affects our brains. An earlier draft version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2018.) Related: What 2018 PISA international rankings tell us about U.S.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

“Even when they pass on, you still respect and honor them as non-human relatives. In archaeology’s early days, animal remains were often ignored, discarded, or treated as unimportant compared to human burials and artifacts. Discusses the ethical treatment of non-human remains in archaeology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00092.x

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Chris Pines, former philosophy and humanities professor at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio. million in 2018. Their combined enrollment fell from 3,264 students in 2012-13 to 2,227 in 2018-19, according to federal data. In 2018, the state was still spending 17 percent less per student than it spent in 2008.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

For at least 10,000 years, humans have worked the land to feed families, build communities, and form civilizations. Human Nature , 29(3), 203–219. But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. Harvard University Press. Link Feinman, G. M., & Carballo, D.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The researchers looked at dozens of skills people use in their jobs, such as writing and reasoning, and then analyzed the potential for new AI tools to either supplant or support humans in those tasks. In 2018 or so Elon Musk said there would be fleets of driverless Teslas everywhere by 2020.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

November 2018. Among other things, Witness eschatological theology leads them to view all human governments as necessarily under the power of Satandespite the claims of the Zambian government enshrined in the Zambian constitution, for example, that Zambia is a “Christian nation.” Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

However, the grading penalty was more pronounced in the social sciences and the humanities compared to engineering, science and medicine. Some college instructors seem to be aware of their human frailty. In 2018, one posted on a message board at Canvas, asking the company to randomize the grade book.

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MARCH 16, 2020

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. .” ” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We must adjust the way science is presented in the classroom — as more than just a set of laws and equations to commit to memory, as a human process of discovery through trial and error. As of 2018, membership was still only 9 percent female. History proves otherwise.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Maria and her husband arrived at Adventist HealthCare’s The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness in 2018, seeking answers for their then-2-year-old middle son, Lucas. With a majority of our children not fully “healthy and ready to learn,” we are shattering much of our human talent potential as a nation.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

To highlight some of the standout programs and great work that has taken place at Verizon Innovative Learning schools across the country over the course of the 2018-19 school year, we’re excited to announce the initiative’s annual Schools of Excellence Award winners. Verizon Innovative Learning schools standouts.

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