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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

The debate is about the best mix — what are AI’s most effective roles in helping students learn, and what aspects of teaching should remain indelibly human no matter how powerful AI becomes? But, there aren’t enough human tutors available nor enough money to pay for them, especially in the wake of pandemic-induced learning loss.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

More than 46,000 years ago, deep within the caves of what is now northern Spain, a silent drama unfolded between humans and the great beasts of the Ice Age. More importantly, the study provided evidence that humans and large carnivores—like hyenas and leopards—coexisted in Iberia for much longer than previously thought.

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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

MARCH 25, 2025

The results challenge long-held assumptions about how early humans controlled tool shape and suggest that the differences in Levallois core designs may be more influenced by cultural traditions than previously thought​ Why Levallois Technology Matters Levallois technology represents a milestone in human cognitive and technological evolution.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. What can’t you do with a humanities degree?” Earnings Disparities : Except in a few northwestern states, humanities majors earn at least 40 percent more than people with only a high school degree. Drawing on data from the U.S.

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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 News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In January of 2021, I was employed as a postdoctoral researcher in a division of public health at a medical school. Credit: Katharine Lee Figure 2: Screenshot of Slack message, from February 1, 2021 Credit: Kate Clancy Figure 3: Screenshots of posts from Kate Clancy’s Twitter asking about periods after vaccines (Fig.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Read on for the full list of the stories most popular with readers in 2021. We Need to Make Schools Human Again. Her solutions include real listening, real change and learning to recognize one another’s humanity. Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education. That Means Treating Teachers With Respect.

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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.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Journal : Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia , 2021. eyes, noses) weakens this claim.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In 2021, we told the story of a student who was surprised to learn that the professor featured in his online course lecture videos died years ago. Below are the 10 top episodes of 2021 as voted by listeners. What the Maps in Our Brain Tell Us About the Learning Process.

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ED Surge

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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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

As syndemics can be traced back in time through bioarcheology and archival research, described in contemporary disease crises through ethnography and epidemiology, and projected into the further as a result of the ongoing cascade of emergent infectious diseases, teaching syndemics allows a wide historic perspective on human health.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In fact, it’s human nature to get caught up in what went wrong—an innate survival mechanism called “negativity bias” vigilantly draws our attention to worries and risks so we can better remember and avoid threats. Thus began my journey to strengthen my gratitude muscle to help push back negative thoughts and make space for joy in 2021.

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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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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 8, 2025

A recent study sheds new light on its human history, highlighting the deep impact of migrations from New Guinea into this region approximately 3,500 years ago. Challenges of Deciphering Human Migrations Studying Wallacea’s genetic history isn’t without its challenges. Human Biology , 83(4), 587–607. Kealy, S.,

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

What started as a part-time gig for a couple of students in 2021 now keeps her busy six days a week. Theres nothing like one-to-one interaction with a human being, Perez says. The retired public school teacher stands out in a burnt orange sweater, her curly hair adorned with a soft brown beret.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many of the programs affected are in the humanities and languages, making those disciplines less available to rural students than they are to urban and suburban ones. Youngstown State University in Ohio, for instance, axed Italian, religious studies and other majors in 2021 , then six more three years later.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. These ideas have revived interest in E.D. Hirschs Core Knowledge curriculum, which gained popularity in the late 1980s.

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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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Edthena

MAY 27, 2021

Addressing this in the classroom is important to make it visible and to help students process both history and what is currently happening.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

That wasn’t the issue, says Ryan Page, director of child care for the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services. The idea to create a better statewide platform to aid families in finding care came out of recommendations released in fall 2021 from a task force created by Iowa Gov. The problem was families couldn’t see availability.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

Senate investigation, over 7,000 schools or districts used GoGuardians surveillance products in 2021. The algorithm detects potential indicators of problems like bullying, self-harm, suicide or school violence and then sends a screenshot to human reviewers. According to a U.S. Vancouver schools apologized for releasing the documents.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine. The American Rescue Plan in March 2021 created the $7.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit is part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which provides broadband subsidies for individuals and families. Due to supply chain delays, the district finished distributing devices in January 2021.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Since the first eruption in March 2021, numerous fissures have opened across five locations, heavily affecting the town of Grindavík. A cross-posting from my Fieldnotes from Iceland blog. Discover the World has made available a new resource. Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula has awakened after more than 800 years.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Sherry Smith understands that kind of anxiety. She didn’t even want to step foot into a math class. I hated to disclose that to people.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For 12 months, Oli kept company with about 500,000 students from the high school class of 2021, more than half of them low-income, minorities, or aspiring first-generation college students. When it first texts a student, it identifies itself as a bot and explains how to reach out to a human if needed. To be clear, Oli is a robot.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 11, 2025

The site was first unearthed in 2009 when archaeologists noticed human bones protruding from the eroded banks of a stream near the fortress ruins. But beneath its surface, an ancient mass grave held the story of a brutal encounter between two of East Asia’s most formidable powers: the Han Dynasty of China and the nomadic Xiongnu.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. On the bus, Lewontin turned his attention to humans. His results have been replicated time and again over the last 50 years, as datasets have ballooned from a handful of proteins to hundreds of thousands of human genomes.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Lagging behind in scientific understandings of human diversity, the medical profession is failing its oath to “do no harm.” ✽ Doctors lie daily. I learned about the impact of viruses on the human genome and spoke at conferences about how our evolutionary past made us subject to diseases in modern environments.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes." Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 19 , 263-289. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-083117-021749 Discusses how ancient DNA is reshaping our understanding of human migration and cultural change. Related Research de Barros Damgaard, P., Rasmussen, S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

AI and humans scored essays differently by race and ethnicity “Diff” is the difference between the average score given by humans and GPT-4o in this experiment. Diff” adjusts this raw number for the randomness of human ratings. GPT-4o marked the essays almost a point lower than the humans did. for the humans.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For centuries, these cloth objects have protected the region’s human and spirit-like beings against illness, death, birth, and seasonal change. An individual constitutes one part of a community of forces, deities, and humans. Offering scarves, too, help build relations with humans and powerful more-than-humans.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 2021, Canada’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S. Having women in positions of power — including Chrystia Freeland, the nation’s first female minister of finance — was crucial to ushering the proposed program through Parliament in 2021, experts say, despite continued opposition from some conservative lawmakers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. That often requires lots of human interaction and supportive relationships — things that don’t scale easily. Educators in this country could learn from that lesson.

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