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MARCH 17, 2025

"The study of pottery production and distribution provides a unique perspective on how political and economic boundaries were established in the European Bronze Age," says Adrià Moreno Gil, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and lead author of the study. Cambridge University Press. Jung, R., & Risch, R.

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Intended Readership The book is intended for scholars and students in anthropology, environmental studies, and animal studies, particularly those with interests in human-environment relations, multispecies ethnography, and human-animal relations.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have decoded 1 the DNA of seven individuals found at sites in Germany and Czechia, revealing a lineage that carried traces of Neanderthal ancestry and left behind no modern descendants. Journal : Nature Ecology & Evolution , 2019. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040072

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

Dr. Benjamin Peter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology explained, “We show that the period of mixing was quite complex. Journal : PNAS , 2019. Journal : American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 2011. Different groups may have separated and reconnected over this extended timeframe.

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JULY 17, 2024

As states forgo redistributive policy and embrace marketized economies that commodify education as the morally legitimized means of social mobility, scholars in anthropology and education have turned critical attention to pedagogies of aspiration. Tricia Niesz is the section contributing editor for the Council on Anthropology and Education.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, for instance, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at Austin sent an email to 70 students saying he would give them an F on an assignment and refer them to the dean’s office after he discovered they were on a GroupMe chat group where answers to an exam were shared.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Ksâr ‘Akil 4 remained unknown to researchers until 2019 when we—an archaeologist and a biological anthropologist—found a photograph of those teeth within towers of carboard boxes of documents from the Ksâr ‘Akil excavations. Its existence was merely noted as “another set of teeth” found next to Egbert in early publications. 998-27-40/14628.1.27

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Teenagers said that the pressure to get good grades was their biggest cause of stress , a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found. “A Disabatino, now a UCSC junior double-majoring in psychology and anthropology and also the first in her low-income family to go to college, said: “I kind of felt like a deer in the headlights.”.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2015, while conducting anthropological fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, a member of our team (Cole) heard local women discussing how water shortages were triggering arguments between partners. The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019.

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MAY 1, 2023

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte brought me back to campus for the first time since 2019 for the dedication of a new memorial structure and garden. When I first met with university administration after the shooting in 2019, they asked how I thought they should memorialize the victims and survivors.

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APRIL 22, 2024

On April 30, 2019 , a shooter entered my classroom on my last day of teaching at UNC-Charlotte. I was preparing to move to Texas to begin a doctoral program in environmental anthropology at UTSA. UTSA was so kind, offering to defer my enrollment as I struggled with the aftermath of the shooting.

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APRIL 30, 2021

student credit hours in 2019 , the last year for which the figure is available. The University of Nebraska started a workshop in 2019 showing them how to reduce the amount of time they spend on grading , for example. Faculty and supporters from universities around the state outside the Hilton C.

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JUNE 29, 2022

She completely lacked interest in and motivation for her anthropology coursework, which she had previously loved. After Lynch completed the program in 2019, her coach helped her negotiate with Mount Holyoke to finish her final credits locally, at the City University of New York. It was a million little things.

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 26, 2023

Tomorrow, I get on a plane to fly to Charlotte, NC to attend the unveiling and dedication of a new memorial for Reed, Riley, and the other victims of the April 30, 2019 shooting that occurred in my class. However, this is the first year that UNC-Charlotte is bringing me back on campus since I moved to Texas in June of 2019.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Previously, she was NPS chief historian for the southeast region, managing history and cultural anthropology programs for 67 national parks, and earlier served as regional program manager for the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. Turkiya Lowe is National Park Service national chief historian.

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APRIL 11, 2023

2017), scarcity (Lane 2019; McAfee 2016), conflict (Krauss 2015; Latour 2015), and species invasions (Helmreich 2005; Pfeiffer and Voeks 2008), all living things have to come to terms with future uncertainty. 2015), a loss of habitat (Corales, De Assis Montag, and Dunck 2022; Johnson et al.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Source: Journal of Archaeological Science , 2019. Source: Current Anthropology , 2015. Faunal Analysis and Tool Production at Paleoindian Sites Explores the use of animal remains for tool production across North American Paleoindian sites, emphasizing species selection and processing techniques.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 28, 2025

Prior to the opening of the mosque in 2019, the local Muslim organization operated a prayer room out of its offices in downtown. Alex Wolff and Yanping Ni are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2019, researchers Damon Clark, Shaniah Chee, and Kate Magargal (left to right) tabled at the Navajo Nation Fair in Window Rock, Arizona, to survey local residents about firewood use. As the process of co-management continues to unfold at the BENM, federal land managers must better uphold the promises of tribal sovereignty.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

Since 2019, HT94 has been hosted by over 150 universities and colleges around the world, and the UMP offers host institutions an installation kit that supports visitors interpretive experiences, while encouraging each host site to connect the exhibit to local issues and community interests.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

It was hard to gain access and insight into the ship industry when I first visited in the winter of 2019–2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Taras Fedirko and Whitney Russell are section contributing editors for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region. Taras Fedirko and Whitney Russell are section contributing editors for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

(1935-2024) On July 5, 2024 Dr. Alan Harwood, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, died at the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, Massachusetts surrounded by his children, Jessica and Seth Harwood, and his wife, Margot Welch.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In 2019, for instance, treasure hunters proceeded to destroy a glacial lake in a pasture in Gumushane, immediately to the south of the area I conducted my field research. The post Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Anthropological research into human-animal conflict has centered on conservation efforts, tracing their roots to colonial times, examining their repercussions on marginalized communities, and analyzing the development of antagonistic sentiments toward wildlife.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

On April 30th, 2019, during the last day of the semester at UNC-Charlotte, students presented their projects in my Science and Technology Studies class. In my discipline of anthropology—a field inherently concerned with both cultural and biological diversity—there is an unsettling paradox.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Anthropological poems from around the globe speak to people’s creative will, resistance, and resilience—and the significance of our shared humanity. ✽ We asked authors to share their insights into “what brought humanity to this point [in history] and anthropology’s role in those processes.” Indigenous anthropologist Jenny L.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

That has helped boost undergraduate and graduate enrollment in Georgia Techs Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts by 58 percent since 2019, to 1,884 students in 2023 the most recent period for which the figure is available. Before then, we were doing almost nothing to explain the value of the humanities, said Richard Utz, interim dean.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

2019) explored genome-wide adaptations in Fulani nomads, focusing on the lactase persistence trait. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 137 (2), 168-174. . 🔗 DOI : 10.1016/j.ajhg.2025.04.012 2025.04.012 Vicente et al. 📄 Citation : Vicente, M., Priehodová, E., Diallo, I., & Podgorná, E.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

"We know the community of microbes living in the large intestine can produce compounds that affect aspects of human biology," explained Katherine Amato, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern and lead author of the study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 159 (S61), 196–215. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.22908

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Source: Current Anthropology. Highlights the evolutionary trade-offs associated with increasing brain size, emphasizing energy costs and developmental constraints in hominins. Brain Size and Hominin Cognition Alatorre Warren, J.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, my dissertation research brought me there to study how a hydroelectric dam, under construction since 2005, will impact the river and local residents in Assam and the neighboring state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ithaca College costs $132,656, on average, and two years later, graduates are earning $19,227. Information about debt incurred for specific programs, rather than averaged among every student at an institution, became available for the first time in 2019.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I began in-person after-school tutoring in 2019, supporting teenagers from Central America with their math, science, and English homework. Tricia Niesz is the section contributing editor for the Council on Anthropology and Education. The post Transitioning with Grace and Gratitude appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 19, 2025

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 62, 101294. Antiquity , 94(373), 1111–1129. link] Sánchez-Quinto, F., Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society. PNAS , 116(19), 9469–9474. link] Furholt, M. Mobility and social differentiation in the European Neolithic.

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That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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