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. Credit: bioRxiv (2025).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

After the release of the latest 2018 rankings by the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA , earlier in December 2019, there was considerable hand wringing and consternation but the result wasn’t much different. . It ranks 13th out of the 79 countries and regions, according to the 2018 PISA scores in reading.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This discovery, led by Eslem Ben Arous and a team of international researchers, forces a reconsideration of how Homo sapiens adapted to diverse ecological challenges across the continent. Researchers analyzed plant wax biomarkers, stable isotopes, phytoliths, and pollen to reconstruct the ancient climate. Their conclusion?

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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. One striking feature of the Jebel Faya assemblage is the presence of a laminar system," the researchers explain.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

By directly comparing the stone tools (lithics) of these two cultures for the first time, researchers have found no meaningful technological connection between them. Until now, the Châtelperronian and Uluzzian industries had always been studied separately, often by researchers using different terminology and methodologies.

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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. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project. New York: Penguin Random House.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

A new study in Scientific Reports 1 argues that their grammar preserves a faint but measurable imprint of the first humans to populate the continent. Naranjo have identified a gradient in grammatical complexity across the Western Hemisphere that aligns with the likely direction of prehistoric human expansion. link] Reich, D.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

New research, published in Nature 1 by an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, delves into the lives of two neighboring Avar communities in Lower Austria. Such results hold a lot of potential for future research in various disciplines." Related Research **Pohl, W.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

leading research excavations, the Durotriges project of the University of Bournemouth. While some of the press coverage about the new research portrayed the findings as a surprise, archaeologists were far from shocked. The new findings come from individuals buried at the Late Iron Age cemetery of Winterborne Kingston in Dorset.

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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. Now, an international team of researchers 1 has uncovered the first ancient genomes from this long-lost ecosystem, shedding new light on an ancient North African lineage that has all but disappeared. . ©

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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

MAY 1, 2025

Published in Nature 1 on April 30, 2025, the research represents the first time a U.S. In this photo provided by researchers, Clifford Tsosie stands in front of the Round House in Picuris Pueblo, N.M., A Model for Ethical Collaboration The study represents a significant shift in how ancient DNA research is conducted.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Every day at Digital Promise, we work with leading educators, researchers, and developers across the country to help close the Digital Learning Gap and improve learning for all. We hope to share some of these examples at the SXSW and SXSW EDU conferences in March 2018 – but first, we need your help. Let’s use VR for good.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

This blog post was updated on March 6, 2019 to include more current research, information, and opinions on grit in the classroom. We’ll take a deeper dive into her research and consider the role of grit in the classroom in 2019, nearly six years after Duckworth delivered her TED Talk. An Overview of Angela Duckworth’s Research on Grit.

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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

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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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. What if you were to marry humans with technology? I thought it was worth writing about this research because it shows one approach to bringing tutoring to more students.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 1, 2025

The Bone Archive of Human History If genes are blueprints, skulls are blueprints weathered by time. Yet the ancient record, preserved in bone, reminds us that the human face has always been a product of history—a moving target shaped by who we are, what we eat, and where we go. Related Research Olalde, I.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. “As a human, the criticism doesn’t feel good,” Duckworth said. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

While writing a recent column about teachers conducting educational studies in their own classrooms, I was curious about when they might need to inform their students’ parents about this research and obtain parental permission. Consent is required, however, when the research involves something that isn’t “normal” classroom practice.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

In these sites, researchers have identified numerous child-sized hand stencils and finger tracings. Thus, small children were considered particularly suited to bridging the gap between the worlds and delivering messages to non-human entities."​ Further Reading For those interested in exploring related research: de Beaune, S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2019

Now, scholars are detecting the same type of biases in the education product industry — even in a federally curated collection of research that’s supposed to be of the highest quality. ” Biased research matters because current federal law encourages schools to buy products that are backed by science.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Other scholars produced research showing that the kind of zero-tolerance discipline then in vogue was hurting students’ long-term academic prospects and feeding the school-to-prison pipeline. Leave this field empty if you're human: Early research seemed promising. Department of Health and Human Services.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

One researcher at NWEA, an organization that produces standardized tests, says he has come up with a way to detect rapid guessing and has found that it is particularly prevalent on reading tests. . Related: Researchers can predict when a student’s mind is wandering. Testing experts have a name for it: rapid guessing. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

“The essay may actually have been particularly helpful for predicting the college success of disadvantaged students,” said Jack Buckley, a former head of research at the College Board, via email. A consistent body of research has found that high school grades are more predictive of how a student will do in college.

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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., I love that the word connection is the largest word in this cloud.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

But a fascinating review of the scientific research on how to teach critical thinking concludes that teaching generic critical thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, might be a big waste of time. Critical thinking exercises and games haven’t produced long-lasting improvements for students. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The researchers found no widespread East Asian ancestry among the European populations of the Carpathian Basin following the Huns' arrival. This study highlights how genetic research, combined with archaeology and historical analysis, can help resolve long-standing debates about the origins of past populations. Rasmussen, S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like.

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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. Credit: Ben Marwick At Longtan, researchers uncovered 53 Quina scrapers and 14 cores—blocks of stone from which scrapers were struck.

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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

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. But that hadn’t been established.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A trio of researchers at the University of Michigan, including one whose surname begins with W, documented an unintended consequence of grading in alphabetical order. The study is described in a 2024 draft paper posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network.

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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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