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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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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

Please note that this article includes images of human remains. This long-lost child, represented only by a lower jaw, was referred to as Ksâr ‘Akil 4 because it was the fourth human fossil discovered at the site of Ksâr ‘Akil in Lebanon, on the Eastern Mediterranean coast. ANOTHER SET OF TEETH “These teeth don’t belong to Egbert!”

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019. An estimated “1.8

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 11, 2023

Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of difference? In these regions, their lives become entangled with those of the humans with whom they share these spaces.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is author of Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America (1919). Recipient of anACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship, he also co-wrote the National Park Service’s Theme Study on Reconstruction. Bogart will provide a walking tour of New York City's Civil War-era monuments.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 25, 2025

The research, led by Jared Carballo and Uroš Matić, now published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 1 , is a reminder that human history is often told through what survives—but also what is overlooked. Current Anthropology , 60(3), 350–375. Carballo-Pérez et al., Carballo-Pérez et al.,

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Among the latest findings, researchers have uncovered bone needles crafted from the remains of fur-bearing animals, suggesting these ancient humans produced garments that helped them survive cold climates.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

These values rest on the belief that humans are apart from natural systems rather than a part of these systems, creating tensions for federal land managers and residents. These tensions point to a fundamental disconnect in understandings of how humans and landscapes are connected. What’s going on back there to have that blocked off?

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

Not entirely without music—but without two particular forms long thought universal among humans—lullabies and communal dancing. The findings call into question some of the foundational ideas in evolutionary anthropology about the universality of music, and specifically its social functions. Form and function in human song.

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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. Madiha: I dont even feel human sometimes Madihas experiences sharply contrast Hamzas. I dont even feel human even sometimes.” Born to African immigrants, she grew up in a small European town.

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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. Students shared emergent understandings of U.S.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region. Narratives of climate apocalypse and Anthropocene dystopia often evoke Christian narratives of the end-times, with environmental change as a symptom of insufficient human piety.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunts conventionally presume that the treasure itself is artefactual, that is, it is generated through the processing of natural substances by humans (e.g., The local topography they surveilled incessantly did not necessarily evoke any human activity other than some spectral conjuring of symbols. a golden jewelry).

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In Wayanad, a densely forested district in the state of Kerala, in South India, human-animal conflict is on the rise, with frequent reports of tigers preying on cattle, bears causing havoc, and elephants damaging property. But it is not only humans who are harmed in these conflicts.

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Anthropology 365

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. After the shooting, I was invited to co-author an article on academic trauma for the American Journal of Human Biology. Anthropologists like to begin with a story, and here is mine.

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Sapiens

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.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The humanities taught me I could do it. The simple message that majoring in the humanities pays off is being pushed aggressively by this university and a handful of others; they hope to reverse decades of plummeting enrollment in subjects that teach skills employers say they need from graduates but arent getting.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The evolution of the human brain is one of the most remarkable chapters in our species' history. With its unparalleled size and complexity, the human brain consumes a disproportionate amount of energy relative to the rest of the body. Squirrel monkeys ( Saimiri sciureus ), another large-brain species.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Human brain evolution has long fascinated scientists, as it underpins the development of intelligence, culture, and complex behavior. This gradual pattern of brain growth reflects the adaptive pressures faced by early humans and their relatives. Often portrayed as static or unchanging, they too exhibited gradual adaptations over time.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

published in The American Journal of Human Genetics 1 , has provided fresh insights into the complex origins of the Fulani, tracing their ancestry back to an ancient, lost world—the Green Sahara. They are a living testament to the vast, interconnected human journey that has played out on African soil for tens of thousands of years.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. Published by Cambridge University Press, Public Humanities is pitched as a very large tent. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.

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