Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

Between 1990 and 2020 for example, one province in Sumatra lost 4.63 million hectares in 2020. We knew our chances were slimmost of the spectacular discoveries in human evolutionary research in Southeast Asia have been made in limestone caves. Meanwhile, palm oil fields grew sixfold, reaching 3.52 Palm oil generates about 2.5

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Excavations at Bété I uncovered a striking connection between early humans and a wet tropical forest environment, dated to approximately 150,000 years ago using advanced dating techniques such as optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and electron spin resonance (ESR). Their conclusion?

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Genetic Mystery Unraveled For years, scientists have tried to piece together the evolutionary puzzle of human language. What genetic shifts allowed humans to develop the intricate vocal control necessary for language? Research suggests that mutations in the human NOVA1 gene may have played a role in the development of language.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This suggests that children may have recognized and elaborated upon the figurative potential of their own creations, blending play and representation in a uniquely human way. Journal : Evolutionary Human Sciences , 2020. Book Chapter : Art and Human Development , 2013. Journal : World Archaeology , 2020.

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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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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

Findings from Malta suggest that these early humans possessed the skills necessary for significant sea voyages, indicating a level of sophistication previously unattributed to Stone Age populations.​ These include stone tools and animal bones with signs of butchering, suggesting human habitation much earlier than previously believed.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

A Jawbone from the Edge of the Map Long before shipping lanes crossed the Taiwan Strait, and long before Taiwan was an island at all, an archaic human jawbone settled into the mud of the ancient seabed. ” The Most Elusive of Human Relatives The Denisovans have always been strange occupants of the human family tree. .

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

That’s when British colonizers switched their trade focus from gold to human beings, and the trade of enslaved people intensified in West Africa and across the Atlantic. Human history on the continent is full of similar stories of resilience through environmental challenges. Her research shows that people knew what they were doing.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

I, for one, refuse to believe that humans, from whatever socioeconomic background, are suddenly unable to succeed without a modern technological innovation. Artificial intelligence in online higher education: A systematic review of empirical research from 2011 to 2020. Chan & Hu, 2023), but no detailed ethnographic work.)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

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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. Crellin, R. Change and archaeology. 1 Arponen, V.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

In the winter of 2020, I participated in a two-day youth organizing retreat in Detroit. How can teachers learn from the practices and principles of youth organizing to create more humanizing, engaging and empowering classrooms? To do so is to see our students as full humans.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

2020 ) and Douka et al. Neanderthals vs. Modern Humans: Who Made What? Meanwhile, the Uluzzian industry has long been associated with modern humans. What This Means for Human Evolution The study’s conclusions challenge long-held assumptions about how Neanderthals and modern humans interacted. 2014 ) modified.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Moreover, this finding contributes to a broader narrative that places Neanderthals as active participants in the cultural evolution of early humans. Their ability to develop and share complex technologies like tar-making illustrates their pivotal role in shaping the trajectory of human development. A., & Langejans, G. Leierer, L.,

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

This is a rare case where nature has preserved a vital piece of human history. This is not just a discovery about canals—it’s a story about resilience, adaptation, and the enduring human quest to master the natural world. Hydraulic landscapes in Mesopotamia: The role of human niche construction. & Allen, M.B.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Math As Humanities? Robinson is inspired by Francis Su, former president of the Mathematical Association of America and author of Mathematics for Human Flourishing (2020). The ability to calculate equations quickly is not that important for humans anymore, even for mathematicians, he says.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

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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. In 2020, 44 percent of high school youth reported having no source of supportive relationships either adults or peers, a reduction by half from a decade earlier.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

It may be August, but we’re already planning ahead for SXSW EDU in March 2020. AI + HI (Human Intelligence) = Educational Equity. To achieve educational equity by addressing learner variability, we need to blend AI (artificial intelligence) with HI (human intelligence) through data.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

But in the upland regions of Warner Valley, Oregon, a different kind of evidence is telling the story of early human diets: microscopic starch granules trapped in the cracks of bedrock metates. Archaeology often deals with what remains—the bones, the stone tools, the charred remnants of ancient hearths. link] Henry, A. 1 Wilks, S.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Before the soft-footed, domesticated Felis catus found its way into Chinese homes, another feline species occupied human settlements for thousands of years. Their findings suggest that leopard cats filled the niche of rodent control in human settlements long before domesticated cats arrived. One possibility is their temperament.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

In Illinois, the therapies are overseen by the states Department of Human Services and its Division of Early Childhood. But it wasnt until early 2020, after the boys celebrated their first birthday, that the therapy was scheduled to start. When you make the system so difficult to navigate, families give up, Liddle said.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 24, 2024

A key aspect of human evolutionary success is our ability to build on past knowledge. Unlike other species, humans don't have to learn how to do things from scratch. The question then arises: when did humans develop this ability? Accumulating Culture Human technology is a testament to cumulative culture. million to 1.8

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Beginning in October 2020, it texted them twice a week, week after week, as they started their applications, then considered financial aid packages, decided where to enroll, made plans over the summer for getting to campus and settled into their routines as freshmen. But some of Oli’s human correspondents had more to say.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

At Brewbaker, which in 2020 served more than 700 students in pre-K through second grade, nearly 20 percent of her students are English learners and 71 percent are economically disadvantaged. For students who speak English as a first language, the program led to as much growth as working with a human tutor.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

She was the author of three books, most recently The Logics of Gender Justice: State Action on Women’s Rights around the World , co-authored with Laurel Weldon, which won the 2019 International Studies Associations Best Book Award in the Human Rights Section.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

In April 2020, her company, AllHere, launched several new features to battle problems exacerbated by Covid-19, including an Artificial Intelligence-powered two-way text messaging system, Chatbot, for kids who weren’t showing up to class regularly. AllHere isn’t the only AI-powered technology startup that expanded last year.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. Digital migration, like any form of migration, is not neutral. This is where digital archaeologists, amateur archivists, and fan-driven preservation efforts play a critical role.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

That’s typically when the human mind takes over. Constraints … it’s when humans then start to solve,” Smith said. In August 2020, Smith gave a presentation on contingency planning during a panel on centering equity in school reopening plans hosted by the group. That’s how it’s worked in Rowan-Salisbury.

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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. Josephson, J.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

Since 2022 , shes been pursuing an associates degree in human services from prison through a remote program with Washington County Community College. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology. Havens has been granted a clemency hearing and may be released as early as this year.)

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

The program demonstrates the dynamic capacity of the humanities to advance justice and equity in society and illuminates career pathways for recent PhDs beyond the academy. Fellows join an engaged alumni community of PhDs working across a variety of sectors. All scholars must be authorized to work legally in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to students at more than 700 high schools across 15 states also failed to improve the number of students who applied or enrolled in college, according to a 2020 study. That often requires lots of human interaction and supportive relationships — things that don’t scale easily.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, “ Goodbye Phone, Hello World.” This 2020 review of the research confirms that. Some racked up considerably more hours.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). Bierema, L.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2020

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was one of the book giveaway programs that obtained “impressive” results for early childhood literacy in a May 2020 analysis by international researchers. published in the journal Review of Educational Research in May 2020. Eliminating human intermediaries also keeps costs low.

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