Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. Below, we present case studies from three anthropology courses using three different sets of AI tools.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 23, 2025

” Current Anthropology. . “Changes in Large Mammal Communities during the Upper Paleolithic in Europe.” ” Quaternary Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.04.002 2008.04.002 **Morin, E. “Neanderthal Mobility and Large Carnivore Displacement.” 1 Baumann, C., Kandel, A.

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Teaching Anthropology

JANUARY 13, 2023

The “emergency remote learning (ERT)” implemented widely during the pandemic did not generally represent a thoughtful transition to an online teaching modality that prioritizes a learner-center pedagogy (Bozkurt & Sharma, 2020; Hodges et al., Educause Review, March 27, 2020. link] Bozkurt, A., & Sharma, R. link] Mok, K.,

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

Researchers from institutions including the University of Bath and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have developed a mathematical model that underscores the significance of human demographic interactions over environmental factors. Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Mallick, S., ​ Rivollat, M., Schiffels, S.,

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Glimpse into the Evolution of Speech The evolution of human speech remains one of the most fascinating mysteries in anthropology and genetics. 1414542111 Zeberg & Pääbo (2020) – "A genomic region associated with speech and language has been under recent positive selection in modern humans" ( Science Advances ).

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

In 2020, amid heightened tensions between Zambian and Chinese migrant communities, with the mayor of Lusaka Miles Sampa accusing Chinese migrants of practicing slavery reloaded, a small group of Zambian assailants murdered, dismembered, and burned the bodies of three Chinese operators of a textile warehouse.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

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. Ethology was an invaluable tool used to document and interpret javelina behaviors.

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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. Too often these arguments turned violent, with men slapping, pushing, or otherwise beating their wives.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

At Dickinson College, in Pennsylvania, a net-zero campus since 2020, students in statistics classes have run data analyses to assess why certain buildings are less efficient than others. Related: One state mandates teaching climate change in almost all subjects – even PE But there’s change happening on some campuses, she and others noted.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Richard Wrangham, a retired professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, noted 2 that starch grains can be detected in teeth dating back at least 50,000 years. Cooked starch grains found in the hardened dental plaque, or dental calculus, of ancient humans offer one of the more direct lines of evidence for early cooking.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She completely lacked interest in and motivation for her anthropology coursework, which she had previously loved. After she successfully completed the last two courses she needed, she finally earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology in the spring of 2020. It was a million little things.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

This entry marks our departure as Contributing Editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s (AFA) column in Anthropology News ( AN ). We also write to reflect on the works we patiently, lovingly, and laboriously shepherded into publication over the past four years and what they reveal about feminist anthropology.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The book was a Finalist, 2021 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize, and 2020 First Book Award, The Library Company of Philadelphia. He is author of Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Gonzalez will lecture on the pre-war image of slavery.

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APRIL 11, 2023

I take seriously the position that our future and that of all other species are shaped by the more-than-human relations we cultivate (Fijn and Kavesh 2021; Haraway 2016; Tschakert 2022; Tschakert et al.

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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. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 63, 101305.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Source: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 2020. Source: Current Anthropology , 2015. Source: Quaternary Science Reviews , 2020. Source: Antiquity , 2020. 1 Pelton, S. Litynski, M., Allaun, S. Buckley, M., Govaerts, J., Schoborg, T., O’Brien, M., Sanders, P., Mackie, M. L., & Surovell, T.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

At the University of North Carolina Greensboro, for example — another institution in a largely rural state, which is in the process of phasing out 20 degree programs, including anthropology and physics — more than half the students are low-income and 35 percent are Black, according to the university.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Current Anthropology , 53(S6), S000-S000. History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 28 (S6), 1–52. The Man Who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois. Harvard University Press. Dart and the "killer ape" hypothesis: Origins, impact, and legacy.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

She stored and preserved my grandfathers clothes from his passing in 1974 until 2020. After years of stagnant bureaucratic negotiations to find and excavate his remains, they were finally identified and his death was made official with a belated funeral in 2020. When he was found, his wedding ring was intact.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 28, 2025

Although the Japanese government does not record the religion of migrants living in Japan, scholars estimate that 230,000 Muslims are living there as of 2020. Alex Wolff and Yanping Ni are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology.

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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. Yet, in 2020, much work remained to be done to improve labor and environmental standards as per the HKC. Credit: Google Maps Google Maps screenshot of Sitakunda shipbreaking yards.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

The findings call into question some of the foundational ideas in evolutionary anthropology about the universality of music, and specifically its social functions. But they are, according to most anthropological surveys, the most common way across cultures. Rethinking Universals What does this mean for anthropology?

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.”

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

In January 2020, I carried out preliminary research in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, where rampant wildfires had engulfed wide swaths of the country each year since August 2010. The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

His work Imigrao e Identidade Familiar released in 2020, became a key reference in the study of autobiographical and familial narratives of immigrants. Luciana Sanguin, Pontifcia Universidade Catlica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) The post Jorge Luiz da Cunha appeared first on Anthropology News.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Some universities are defunding and dismantling programs in archaeology , history , anthropology , art history , ancient languages , and classical studies. But in 2020—for the first time since polls began tracking people’s views on evolution—a majority in the U.S. Meanwhile, it seems few people know what archaeologists actually do.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Anthropology professor at UNI, directs the New Iowans Center. 2020 = 125,000; 2040 = 185,000+. 2020 = 75,000; 2040 = 110,000+. 2020 = 11,000; 2040 = 13,000. Children said ‘welcome to my neighborhood, Mr. Rogers.’ ’ The dreams and innocence of children will outlive us all. Asian / Pacific Islander population.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 26, 2024

It is also due to the large numbers of independent voter registrations relative to other states, which can sometimes make election outcomes, like the 2020 presidential election, surprising (or contested ). Sarah Muir and Michael Wroblewski are the section contributing editors for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A 2020 study found that faculty increasingly report symptoms associated with anxiety and depression, such as dissatisfaction, insomnia, headaches, GI issues, hypertension, suicidal ideation, hypervigilance, and panic attacks. Even more troubling, a 2015 study found that more than 10% of surveyed students “seriously considered suicide.”

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When activist and anthropologist Graeber died unexpectedly in 2020, scholars gathered to mourn him. I (Josh) remember blasting the air conditioning at the start of another hot day in September 2020. By the time of his death in 2020, Graeber had become an important public intellectual. I shot back, slightly irritated.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In 2020, Air-e came into the picture, but the problems have only worsened. The post Battling against Air-e appeared first on Anthropology News. To create a just energy transition, Colombia must acknowledge heat—in all its senses—as part of the entanglements replicating injustice throughout its territories.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

Through these poems, we pull an anthropological lens to our eye to look at critical questions of power and agency. In June 2024, our editorial team put out a call for submissions of anthropological poems of resistance, refusal, and wayfinding. Wherever there is injustice, there is refusal.

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

In our work, we have witnessed the effects of societal injustices such as health and class inequities and racism for decades, but they certainly came to the forefront in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the United States. But forensic anthropology testimony is only one aspect of our job. and around the world.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Cancer is already a major public health problem, with over 19 million incident cases and nearly 10 million deaths globally in 2020 , and higher rates of cancer (especially lung, skin, and gastrointestinal ) are projected to accompany extreme global temperatures. In essence, the “world” and the “body” are intersubjective entities.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The limits of collections research and digital access flashed like a neon sign when we first partnered as graduate students for an undergraduate course on museum anthropology and community collaboration. Lilia McEnaney is the section contributing editor for the Council for Museum Anthropology.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Dr. Qing Li of Fudan University notes that these findings could have implications beyond evolutionary anthropology, potentially contributing to advancements in dental medicine. This Neanderthal-derived trait is just one example of how ancient genetic mixing continues to influence modern human biology. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1710341114

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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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