Sapiens

DECEMBER 4, 2024

DECOLONIZING SPAIN’S MUSEUMS In my work as a curator of archaeological assemblages at the British Museum and as a bio-archaeology researcher at the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom, I have observed how nations and cultural institutions grapple with their colonial legacies.

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Sapiens

MAY 7, 2025

IN 2022, the Art Crimes Division of the FBI became interested in a palm-size piece of carved ivory held by Emory Universitys art museum in Atlanta, Georgia. In the aftermath of the Gulf War, sparked by Iraqs invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the countrys archaeological sites became easy targets for looters. During the 2003 U.S.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Steinert Book : Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East , 2022. Kipfer Journal : ZORA: Zurich Open Repository and Archive , 2017. Wagner-Durand Journal : Homo Pictor: Image Studies and Archaeology in Dialogue , 2020. Sibbing-Plantholt Book : Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East , 2022.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

The launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 sparked panic among instructors who realized it can answer homework questions, analyze data, and generate whole essays in seconds (although its facts and citations may not always be trustworthy). Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai

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Sapiens

JANUARY 18, 2024

Local surveyors, construction workers, architects, and engineers documented the destruction as it happened on hand-colored maps, which are now held at the London Metropolitan Archives. In 2021 and 2022, I conducted an archaeological walkover and photographic survey of the marshes. It also had a more constructive purpose.

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

In October 2022, we realized that funds in our TPS grant would enable us to offer an additional colloquium in the spring of 2023. Francis has spent years translating Spanish records and uploading them to a remarkable website entitled La Florida: The Interactive Digital Archive of the Americas.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Archaeological excavations at Mandrin Cave revealed the remains of both Neanderthals and modern humans. Evolutionary, cultural, and social processes that seem unimaginable if we try to apply them to sapiens populations, as we understand them through cultural anthropology, history, and archaeology.

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