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JUNE 27, 2024

Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai to imagine and develop the research design for the archaeological investigation of UCI’s campus at some time in the future (perhaps an excavation to be conducted by non-human intelligence).

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. I call this a “confession” because “ (bio)archaeologists ” like me—scholars who identify with archaeology, biological anthropology, or both—are not necessarily known for centering social theories like Intersectionality in our subdisciplines. Intersectional Anthropology.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

1935-2023 David C. Grove, 1935-2023 David C. Grove, Jubilee Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Courtesy Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, passed away on May 24, 2023, at the age of 87 after a long illness.

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DECEMBER 24, 2023

These findings, published in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 1 , suggest a deeper understanding and technical skill in stone tool creation than previously thought. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology , 6 (1). Tsukada, K., Tarawneh, O., Massadeh, S., & Kadowaki, S.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 7, 2025

We invite proposals for individual papers, panels, and workshops/roundtables on any aspect of the Greco-Roman world, including but not limited to poetry (from epic, lyric, and pastoral to elegy, satire, and the epigram), drama, history, philosophy, archaeology, religion, and social life (from family and gender roles to slavery and prostitution).

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Please send a 300-word pitch that outlines the story or argument of your piece, and a 50-word bio to an@americananthro.org by February 2, 2023. Read more about us here , and consider how you might tell anthropological stories for a general audience as you consider the direction of your pitch.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I had dinner with a friend, Claudia Mendes—a former colleague in Munich—and her family around New Year’s Eve 2023, and she told me, “This city is crisscrossed by wind corridors [ Frischluftschneisen ], channeling fresh air from green spaces on higher ground to the literal down town, the lower and the hotter parts of the city.”

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

The LaPrele Mammoth Site: A Window into Early North American Life Archaeological discoveries at the LaPrele mammoth site in Wyoming continue to shed light on the ingenuity and adaptability of Early North Americans, who lived in North America nearly 13,000 years ago. Source: Journal of Archaeological Science , 2019.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Early Neolithic farmers, known for their distinct Linear Pottery Culture (Linearbandkeramik, or LBK), expanded rapidly across the region. Map of the LBK culture and the studied sites. The Violent Collapse of the LBK Culture By 5000 BCE, the Linear Pottery Culture began to decline, marked by episodes of violence and social upheaval.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

ENTERING THE FRAY I agreed to discuss archaeology with pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on the mega-popular but controversial podcast the Joe Rogan Experience. But reaching those outside my echo chamber demands more than my archaeological expertise. In January 2023, Hancock and I agreed to sit down together on Rogan’s podcast.

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MARCH 19, 2024

To uncover this past, a team launched the country’s first archaeological research. The Praia Melão engenho and estate is the first archaeological site identified in São Tomé. Our excavations in 2023 focused mainly on the area just outside the ruins, with limited testing inside the building itself.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A Mysterious Ritual Resurfaces in the Archaeological Record In the rugged landscapes of northeastern Iberia, ancient fortresses once stood, their walls bearing silent witness to the turbulent rituals of Iron Age societies. And how did these practices compare to similar rituals in neighboring cultures? Journal of Archaeological Science.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 13, 2024

A new study in Science 1 reveals that many Native American populations across the Great Plains and the Rockies had incorporated horses into their cultures by the early 1600s, long before direct contact with Europeans. Rock art at a Wyoming site depicts a horse and rider, likely carved by ancestral Comanche or Shoshone people. Librado, P.,

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

The study, published in PLOS ONE 1 on December 11, 2024, uses bioarchaeological analyses to shed light on the diets, deaths, and cultural practices of this enigmatic population, linked to the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypilla culture. Cultural Context The rarity of cremated remains in Trypillian burials adds another layer of intrigue.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

If Homo naledi indeed buried its dead, it would suggest that this species possessed cognitive and cultural capacities far beyond what was previously imagined for hominins with such small brains. Feuerriegel, E., Gurtov, A., … Hawks, J. Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi. link] 2 Foecke, K. PaleoAnthropology.

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

Through this work, drawing on knowledge from human skeletal biology, anatomy, and archaeology, we often confront the immense social and racial inequalities that can play a role in the circumstances of ones death. ADVOCATING FOR THE DEADAND THE LIVING Advocacy and activism are nothing new to anthropology.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Sagstetter, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Katya Xinyi Zhao Anthropology & Education Quarterly Dilemmas of vulnerability in Indian education NGOs: Neoliberal subjectivity, emotions, and class-based employment hierarchies in Delhi Rich Thornton Anthropology & Humanism Israeli democracy threatened under right-wing extremists: A native anthropologist’s (..)

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

Cave art has long been a touchstone for understanding the cognitive and cultural worlds of ancient humans. Their simplicity belies their profound significance as one of the earliest forms of human visual culture. Journal : L'Anthropologie , 2023. Journal : Journal of Archaeological Science , 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.anthro.2023.102975

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the China National Silk Museum and the Sichuan Research Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology have confirmed that silk played a significant role in sacrificial rituals conducted by the Shu State during the late Shang Dynasty (1600–1100 BCE). Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Ge, J., & Hu, Y.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

An archaeologist from Palestine is urgently working to assess archaeological sites in the West Bank devastated by destruction and looting amid Israels ongoing war in the region. SIGNS OF LOOTING appear everywhere at archaeological sites across the West Bank. to 10 meters wide and 0.4 to 7 meters deep.

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