Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In contrast, modern shrub density in some forests is now higher than it was 130,000–115,000 years ago—a period with a similar climate to today’s but without human intervention. Researchers focused on key historical periods: pre-human Australia, periods of Indigenous habitation, and the era following British colonization.

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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.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence at Kiel University have introduced a groundbreaking way 1 to apply modern philosophical concepts, like the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), to ancient societies, offering fresh perspectives on how and why these communities thrived. American Antiquity, 57(1), 50–56.

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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.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

Nearly two million years ago, in the high-altitude landscape of the Ethiopian Highlands, early human ancestors at the Acheulian site of Melka Wakena weren’t simply grabbing the nearest stones to use as tools. Some of the bones display telltale anthropogenic marks, suggesting that early humans had a significant presence here.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

We rewarded students for getting the right answers, for competing rather than collaborating, for mastering subjects rather than navigating human relationships. This years NAEP scores revealed that in both reading and math, most fourth- and eighth-graders still performed below pre-pandemic 2019 levels. for adults and children.

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MARCH 7, 2022

It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. Home Econ then became Family and Consumer Science, and now it’s called Human Ecology. Schools have an educational obligation to teach people about meeting human needs and coexisting.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The genetic legacy of Neanderthals persists in modern humans, with 1-2% of non-African genomes composed of Neanderthal DNA—a determination made through comprehensive sequencing and comparison of ancient and modern genomes. “These beneficial traits spread rapidly in early human populations.”

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Strange Maps

MARCH 3, 2025

But 21st-century culture wars are no Shakespeare play. Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle – Nature, 29 Sept 2019) At first glance, the maps suggest that both ideological tribes inhabit moral universes that aren’t merely different theyre almost entirely opposite. Credit : A. Credit : A. Credit : A.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. The first rigorous evaluation of one of the larger programs came out in October 2019 and found some promising results. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2025

An anthropologist reckons with how digital media has changed youth gang culture dynamicsand what can be done to combat the spread of deadly rumors. In 2019, Luis Alberto Quionez who everyone called Sitowas shot dead in San Francisco when he was 19. He is a disgrace to human nature!!! But in death, he has become a part of mine.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It seems that our recent (timid) interest in cultivating multiliteracies in anthropological work follows directly from his early 20 th -century view that human communication involves not only linguistic or verbal exchanges, but also non-verbal cues and gestures, such as tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: By the close of this century, at least half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken today will become extinct – and that’s according to the rosiest of linguistic forecasts.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

My journey as an immigrant from a small town in Africa’s smallest mainland country, The Gambia, to the biggest city in the United States, with its many diverse cultures, has given me a unique perspective. This experience gave me an opportunity to recognize my own cultural myopia. I’m a better teacher because of it. A Muslim lens.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

Still, despite these challenges, I believe my story is important — not only to create a better understanding of Muslim culture and Muslim women’s identity, but also to build a more welcoming educational environment for Muslim educators and students. The hijab and what it represents in Islam is often misunderstood and unfairly stereotyped.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

2019) and at raising learner satisfaction as they enjoy their courses more (Lumpkin et al., Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. Learners’ engagement, active participation, and reflection are situated at the core of active learning.

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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. Those results, released in October 2019, also found that U.S. Proof Points. Early Childhood.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

As a result of Boseman’s untimely death, my morning meetings with students are centered around discussing current events and providing culturally affirming spaces to discuss what is on their minds. The goal will be to develop self-worth and cultural competence. Related: Black teachers matter, for students and for communities.

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The Hechinger Report

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. .” Culture is shaping it.”. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 2, 2021

During the 2019-20 school year, 10 districts from across the United States—including nine districts from the League of Innovative Schools—joined a learning cohort, convened by the Center for Global Education at Asia Society and Digital Promise, to explore this question.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Neural systems that most distinguish the human brain from those of other animals actively develop during early childhood. Dr. Bruce Wexler is a professor of psychiatry in the Yale School of Medicine, the author of Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change (MIT Press, 2006) and Chief Scientist at C8Sciences.

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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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MAY 9, 2023

Named Tūtū and Me after the Hawaiian word for “grandparent,” the program introduces children to early academic and social skills as well as native Hawaiian language and culture. At least 43 percent of young children in Hawaii were watched by friends or relatives in 2019. Subscribe to our Early Childhood newsletter.

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JULY 28, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not from the tribes themselves. The center worked with the National Indian Child Care Association to analyze 184 tribal child care plans submitted to HHS for the 2019-2022 fiscal year. Baesler has seen firsthand the impact that culturally relevant curriculum has on older students.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Black male teachers are often asked to mentor or motivate students, particularly male of students of color, who their white colleagues may have trouble reaching. He advocates tackling the “systemic and cultural barriers” that can create roadblocks for teachers of color. Weekly Update.

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MAY 25, 2023

Every eighth grader in those schools takes a two-hour workshop class once a week for six weeks, learning everything from how to succeed in an office culture, to developing their strengths and learning how to shake hands in a professional setting. The organization operates the program in five schools in the Boston area.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

8) for teaching controversial and sensitive histories (inspired by work from colleagues such as Mohamud & Whitburn, 2016; Mohamud & Whitburn, 2019; Elias & Spafford, 2021; Kerridge & Snelson, 2022) that provide a valuable tool for developing our approach to handling this challenge in the classroom. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. King, Ph.D.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Playing a game of insults, that’s all well and good,” said Jennifer Dean, an educational consultant and former English teacher who has a Ph.D 10, 2019 by the Thomas B. Should you ding a lesson because it doesn’t include diverse authors or cover culturally diverse topics?

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Striving to preserve material cultural heritage, experts disapprove of treasure hunting, which they view as a financially motivated and rather vulgar search for material riches. 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.,

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine, authors of the 2019 book “ In Search of Deeper Learning ”, define deeper learning as “the understanding of not just the surface features of a subject or discipline, but the underlying structures or ideas.”

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