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APRIL 14, 2025

The Puzzle of the Missing Fires In the bleak cold of the Last Glacial Maximum, it seems obvious that fire would have been essential for human survival. Fire as Cultural Technology Fire is not merely a survival tool. Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans. link] Sorensen, A. link] Wrangham, R.

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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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MARCH 31, 2025

It suggests that these journeys were neither incidental nor purely educational but held profound cultural and spiritual significance. Liminal Beings: Children as Mediators In many indigenous cultures, children are perceived as liminal beings—occupying a threshold between the earthly realm and the spiritual world.

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MARCH 10, 2025

That lack of disturbance makes it an exceptional place to study how humans occupied the region during the final millennia of the Upper Paleolithic. The presence of butchery marks on many of these bones suggests that humans actively hunted and processed animals at the site. Indeterminate bone with a short cut mark; C.

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APRIL 2, 2025

The presence of this distinctive technology so far from its previously known origins raises new questions about ancient human migrations, cultural exchange, and independent innovation. If Denisovans were responsible, this would provide the first material culture directly linked to them.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Ancient Hearths of Fuente del Salín Fire has long been a cornerstone of human existence, providing warmth, protection, and a means to cook food. But was its use during the Upper Paleolithic purely practical, or did it hold deeper cultural significance? A Ritual of Flames?

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

When humans feel stressed or disconnected, our brains shift away from the higher-order thinking needed for learning and into survival mode (Arnsten, 2015). There is also more than just one path to mastery - different humans may take different valid routes to achieve the same learning goals (Fischer & Yan, 2002).

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. I wanted to grow.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. One of the most powerful questions they asked is a question about space: “What was the home you grew up in like?”

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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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DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This particular activity comes on the heels of a discussion of cultural universals in comparative perspective. Human hygiene is taken as an example. Why and how it is done varies across cultures. 1951/1954), Bathing Babies in Three Cultures. Cleansing the body is a universal behavior. It is not one size fits all’.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the report “Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools Post-COVID,” Justin Reich and Jal Mehta consider that one of education’s biggest challenges in the years ahead will be to harness “the experience and urgency for change” and apply that energy to the sustained improvement of schools.

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JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year So many times we hear that teachers are superheroes, and I really want to disagree with that, because I'm not a superhero. I'm a human being. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The research, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , offers fresh insights into this ancient game and its cultural significance. 2024 A Global History of Ancient Games Board games have been part of human culture for millennia. The Fifty-Eight holes board from Çapmalı W. Crist et al.,

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Forest Service , have underlined the value, not only of specific place-based and historical knowledge of flora and fauna, but of traditional ways of relating to and understanding humans’ place in the natural world as we seek to adapt to and mitigate climate change. Making sure the kids know their culture — it’s not easy,” she said. “

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MARCH 31, 2023

After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements.

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JUNE 16, 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: ATLANTA – As more and more attempts to restrict discussion of gender and race in K-12 schools across the country take hold, where do the ideas go?

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. In this way, Todd and Sonkin reinforced the stereotype of the Okies as country bumpkins, making them seem far less connected to mainstream American culture than they actually were.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

It literally speaks to my soul, not only because it acknowledges my humanity but also in the way it pays homage to the intersections of Black and Queer artistry. In June 2022, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron Desantis signed a bill that permits military veterans the ability to become classroom teachers without degrees.

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APRIL 7, 2025

This scene, the vibrant landscape depicting the interplay between humans and the environment, is a window onto natural rubbers expansive, interconnected network of gendered labor, kinship, and care in a shifting climate reality. A cloud of blue smoke billowed out from the dense canvas of emerald. Credit: Chantal Croteau Fig.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art View upon leaving the gallery showing La Última Ofrenda, 2022. Rather than showing humanity, “gloom and doom” narratives in the media unintentionally perpetuate violence by depicting undocumented immigrants as living in a never-ending cycle of suffering. Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. Studying human bodies provides a deep historical perspective on social dynamics whose echoes remain with us today. I received my Ph.D.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. Codifying self-love and identifying ways to capture growth is key for student progress.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Following the inaugural Ivan Karp Worksop in Museum Anthropology in 2022 in Seattle, I had the privilege of participating in the succeeding iteration: Clay, Ceramics, Curation. The workshop was led by Senior Curator at the museum, Dr. Karine Tsoumis, and brought attendees on a material and visual journey through Odundo’s ceramic practice.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

18, 2022, in Mesa, Arizona, one of a growing number of schools that have embraced team teaching. 18, 2022, in Mesa, Arizona. It’s almost like we have to give up our humanity to become a teacher,” she said. Credit: Michael York/Associated Press Flags fly above Westwood High School, Tuesday, Oct.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

In a memo released in mid-June to school district superintendents, Vermont Agencies of Education and Human Services indicate that local departments of education can waive the insurance requirement for home-based pre-K programs that are unable or cannot afford to secure the policy recommended by VSBIT.

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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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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Ryan told The Washington Post in 2022, “which is to be a place of opportunity, a place of social mobility.” The Human Element University outreach made the difference for Del Real Viramontes. Some public flagships are paying attention to the transfer pipeline’s potential for educating people of varied backgrounds. “It

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AUGUST 15, 2023

When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically rooted in the “no excuses” model , which centers a results-driven culture that prioritizes strict behavioral procedures and academic policies.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

An anthropologist who studies human-computer interactions explores how and why losing ones smartphone feels so unsettling. As a cyborga human-machine hybridhe can work from anywhere as long as his body remains reliably connected to the internet. Tool embodiment is neither new nor unique to smartphonesor even to humans.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 13, 2025

In the remote northern reaches of the Isle of Skye, archaeologists have unearthed 1 compelling evidence that challenges long-held beliefs about the extent of human migration during the Late Upper Paleolithic period. Rethinking the Scottish Late Upper Palaeolithic: New evidence for human presence in the north-west during the Younger Dryas.

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