Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Excavations at Bété I uncovered a striking connection between early humans and a wet tropical forest environment, dated to approximately 150,000 years ago using advanced dating techniques such as optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and electron spin resonance (ESR). Their conclusion?

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. A 2023 study of the Core Knowledge curriculum, which was not peer reviewed, received a lot of buzz.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Inclusion in the general education classroom is a human right Abby Taylor recently earned her doctorate in special education at Vanderbilt University, where Douglas Fuchs, the author of the controversial paper, is a professor. His six-year term at the Department of Education began in 2023. Comments were lightly edited for clarity.)

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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. Pseudoarchaeology, or “alternative history,” draws major attention and casts itself as legitimate.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. I was one of the youngest students in the class, and we learned everything about human behavior. I’m still connected with my AP Psychology teacher, Jacki Della Rosa Carron , and she remains one of my favorite humans.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found that human feedback was generally a bit better than AI feedback, but AI was surprisingly good. Humans had a particular advantage in advising students on something to work on that would be appropriate for where they are in their development as a writer.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

If AI-generated content can easily evade detection while human text is frequently misclassified, how effective are these detectors truly?” the Stanford scientists wrote in a July 2023 paper , published under the banner, “ opinion ,” in the peer-reviewed data science journal Patterns. No human writes that way,” the Quill site says.

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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. Such interest also distracted from the breakthrough’s Nobel-worthy value: answering scientific questions about species’ history and evolution.

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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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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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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching. which are becoming increasingly user-friendly and flexible (Apostolidou, 2023).

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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. 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. To reach every student in the U.S.,

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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ASHP CML

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Making Queer History Public Episode 2: Trans Lives and Oral History with Michelle Esther O'Brien Wednesday, February 1, 2023 - 11:01 In the second episode of Making Queer History Public, we talk with psychotherapist, teacher, and activist, Michelle Esther O’Brien. Let us know at cml@gc.cuny.edu

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

By the spring of 2023, school districts had amassed more staff than at any time in history, the Edunomics Lab calculated. Central offices needed more administrators to handle recruitment and human resources because they were hiring for so many new positions. Other administrators are needed to manage federal grants.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 21, 2024

Unveiling the Ancient Genomes: A DNA Odyssey In a recent revelation published in the Annals of Human Biology 1 , scientists extracted mitochondrial DNA from Teōtīhuacān burials. As the mysteries of this archaeological marvel continue to unfold, genetic revelations pave the way for a richer narrative of Mesoamerican history.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

It's the year 2023, and teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. I have these available for my entire curricula in World and US History. I have a thorough World History PBL packet that can be used in any unit. If you have been in the classroom the past few years, you know just how rough it has been.

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. History: H.5.USH.8 Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Prize announcement. NobelPrize.org.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Each discovery reshapes our understanding, challenging erstwhile beliefs, and heralding a paradigm shift in our comprehension of history. Notably, miscalculations in dating methodologies have led to significant misconceptions in human evolutionary history. They hold promise in advancing our comprehension of human evolution."

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ASHP CML

JANUARY 12, 2023

Making Queer History Public Episode 1: LGBTQ+ Archives with Steven G. Fullwood Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 10:50 In the first episode of Making Queer History Public, we talk with archivist, writer, and documentarian, Steven G. Follow Making Queer History Public on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, or Google Play.

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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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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. Parasayan, O.,

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. My work sits at the nexus of human biology and archaeology, two disciplines known for being deeply positivist and scientific, valuing numbers, models, and testable hypotheses as a gold standard.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

The think tank Rand recently reported in its 2023 State of the American Teacher survey that two-thirds of teachers nationally said they were limiting discussions about political and social issues in class. Related: How do we teach Black history in polarized times? When I first got there. But my advisors, they pushed for so much more.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

in particle physics — has the School of Humanities and Sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., Colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

However, as of 2023, the effectiveness of high-dose tutoring has gradually declined due to low student participation rates and skepticism from education authorities regarding the actual educational impact of online high-dose tutoring. So, what additional elements are needed to attain frequent problem-solving communication in education online?

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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. In 1995, filmmaker John Akomfrah crafts and experimental film essay titled Last Angel of History.

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Becoming a History Teacher

DECEMBER 17, 2023

I often talk about the joy that can be found in mentoring ( Crooks, Haydn & London (2023), p.1 However, at the end of the longest term known to humanity, finding joy in mentoring can be hard for those of you on the ground who often mentor alongside already overstretched timetables. Becoming a History Teacher Blog.

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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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Strange Maps

JANUARY 31, 2024

26,250 ft) counts as the “Death Zone,” where the air is too thin to sustain human life for long. While most recent years only had single-digit casualty figures, 2023 has proved one of the deadliest years on record, with 17 dead. Everything above 8,000 m (app. The lack of oxygen here only adds to their predicament.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4 Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy’s biography and LinkedIn profile are available upon request.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2024

Presence of the PNPLA3 rs738409 gene variant in modern and archaic humans, with great apes carrying the ancestral variant ("wild type"). Frequencies of the risk variant in present-day humans are indicated in percent of the population. PNPLA3 fatty liver allele was fixed in Neanderthals and segregates neutrally in humans.

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