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. Children, Metaphorical Thinking, and Upper Paleolithic Visual Cultures Author : Nowell, A. Journal : Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory , 2023.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus , one of our oldest ancestors who once lived in this region from about 1.9 Still, they couldn’t fully explain the entirely human-made landscape we came across.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This discovery reshapes our understanding of early animal domestication and its cultural significance in Predynastic Egypt. 2024.106104 The Discovery at Hierakonpolis Hierakonpolis, located about 100 kilometers from modern-day Luxor, was a thriving center of Predynastic Egyptian culture and an early hub of political power.

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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. A 2023 study of the Core Knowledge curriculum, which was not peer reviewed, received a lot of buzz.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Perhaps it’s no surprise that EdSurge’s most popular podcast episode of 2023 focused on ChatGPT. Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Improving school culture is high on many school leaders’ lists of building priorities. But cultivating a strong school culture doesn’t happen without intentional thought and planning. Why is this key to improving school culture ? Check out the highlights of what we’ve been reading below, as well as links to the full resources.

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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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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These screenshots were taken in 2023. There was a trend in news coverage of this project which minimized our disciplinary expertise (human biologists and anthropologists who study menstruation), while elevating the dismissive commentary of many MDs who were not specialists in menstruation. 3a, from February 24, 2021, at 2:20 p.m.),

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Teaching Anthropology

JUNE 12, 2023

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? Curious about human evolution? Take part in interactive workshops such as ‘Conspiracy Theories and Their Truths in Times of Confusion: Anthropological Perspectives’, ‘7 Million Years of Human Evolution in 45 Minutes!

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Sapiens

MARCH 12, 2024

On a visit to feline-friendly Turkey, an anthropologist considers what long-standing practices of caring for cats reveal about human societies. Kedi (Turkish for “cat”) also charts the ways humans care for felines, from making them snacks to bringing them to the vet. No one knows for sure how cats became beloved in Turkey.

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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.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

In a 2023 interview , professional basketball player Caitlin Clark shared about where her confidence stems from. In fact, I think it has enormous potential to augment our human creativity and to support effective teaching and learning. Can these tools make us more human, not less? And computer people, what shall we say of them?

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In this regard, we were both deeply struck by a story on November 9, 2023, of a team of researchers that had sighted Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains. Sighted shortly before October 2023, your timing could not be more important. You are no monster. You are a portent. One way explodes all around us.

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Anthropology.net

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. What sets this site apart is the unusual presence of burnt human remains. Hofmann, R., Shatilo, L.,

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Morais, Columbia Business School In the fall of 2023, I integrated generative artificial intelligence (AI) into my Columbia Business School course, Market Intelligence: The Art and the Science. Conceptual Jumping Off Point 2: Duncan Hines as Cultural Transmitter 5.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Among the most perplexing of these practices is the display of severed human heads—gruesome relics once nailed to walls or placed near entrances. Science Takes a Bite Out of Ancient Iberian Mythology To uncover the origins of these skulls, researchers analyzed human remains from two major sites: Ullastret and Puig Castellar.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived. In January 2023, Hancock and I agreed to sit down together on Rogan’s podcast. My goal is to share the magnitude and diversity of human achievement. Start with the truth.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

I want you to remember that there are humans behind these stories. Instead, we melded into a distinct culture through the sugar plantation experience of our great-grandparents , with each ethnic community retaining its identity and cohesion and resisting the pressure to completely lose either through assimilation.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. In 1989, a University of Oxford team claimed to have extracted, for the first time, DNA from ancient human bones.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

ASHP/CML will host a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded institute in Summer 2023 for 25 college and university teachers to study the visual culture of the American Civil War and its aftermath. Resources and activities from previous institutes are available online on The Visual Culture of the American Civil War website.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

The grant will help Lumen bring together the company’s three separate platforms for humanities, professional development and online homework management, executives from the company say. Officials plan to make an OER Statistics 101 course available by 2023.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 8, 2024

This diminutive species, with a brain about one-third the size of modern humans, was unlike any other hominin previously discovered. The Broader Implications This debate over Homo naledi ’s burial practices has broader implications for both our understanding of human evolution and the future of scientific publishing. Elliott, M.,

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ED Surge

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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

READ THE SERIES Price teaches with human-capable technologies in mind, making sure to give students the skills in class by hand. 11, 2023, in Seattle. Sun hopes ChatGPT can also help teachers write more culturally appropriate word-problem questions to make all their students feel included. 11, 2023, in Seattle.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Recent research unveils intriguing insights into the sophisticated choices made by Paleolithic humans regarding stone tool selection. The team hypothesized that early humans actively sought out specific flint, such as translucent and smooth varieties, which could be easily shaped into sharp tools. Tsukada, K., Tarawneh, O., Tsukada, K.,

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Researchers delve into the earliest chapters of European settlement by investigating ancient skull fragments from Crimea, shedding light on the crucial role played by the first modern humans in shaping the continent's history. Genome sequences of 36,000- to 37,000-year-old modern humans at Buran-Kaya III in Crimea. 1 Bennett, E.

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (in Memory of Alfred Nobel) was awarded to Dr. Claudia Goldin, for " for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes. ” 18 Analyze causes and effects of cultural changes on society in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s Civics: C.3.CIV.1 History: H.5.USH.8

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. They can learn how to humanize those around them in ways that strengthen our country’s pluralistic democracy rather than perpetuating the culture wars that continue to sabotage our Constitution.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

What does the stereotype tell us about educational culture and structure more broadly? Although publicly available chatbots had only been in the mainstream for one semester when we surveyed (fall 2023), 71% of students indicated they thought that GenAI would become an essential part of most professions. Is this fair? Is it right?

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. Third point. Sub-Saharan Africa experienced an 11.6 increase in South Africa. Reconnect to essay.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2023

I co-chaired a panel at the 2023 meeting of the American Anthropological Association titled “The America Animal.” ” Abstract: Other-than-human animals comprise a large part of the social and ecological fabric of our lives in ways that are often unexpected or unnoticed.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors and students press pause for winter break, journalists at EdSurge are likewise taking some time away from writing and editing during the last week of 2023. In each essay, Green examines an element or experience of being human today — the QWERTY keyboard, sunsets, Dr Pepper, Canada geese — and then rates it out of five stars.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Credit: Murtaja Lateef Souk al-Shorja, Baghdad’s oldest market, summer 2023. During a brief visit to Iraq in the heat of summer 2023, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared , “The era of global boiling has indeed begun.” Credit: Murtaja Lateef Al-Sinak Street, summer 2023.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Does deception form an integral part of human behavior across societies? 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. Who are the architects of alternate realities, and who do they seek to convince?

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. He is currently working on a study of Civil War visual culture for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bogart is professor emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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