Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

As the 2024 poet-in-resident at the magazine, she imaginatively reaches for new possibilities. I engaged with this history in my poetry project for SAPIENS as the 2024 digital poet-in-residence. In Survival Notes , I recognize the tradition that so many women before me started. My poems are a call to action.

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JULY 15, 2024

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. The post Call for Pitches: Care appeared first on Anthropology News.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

1933-2024 Credit: Penny de los Santos Sally McLendon (1933-2024) Sally McLendon was an American scholar of Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in North America, with a special focus on the Indigenous languages and communities of Northern California.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition. This challenges long-held assumptions that early human technologies were purely reactionary adaptations.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

1935-2024 Anton Blok, 1935-2024 Dutch anthropologist Anton Blok died on June 24th, at the age of 89. He initially chose to study geography, but soon switched to anthropology, impressed by the introductory lectures in that field of study given by the renowned Africanist André Köbben.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada. The textbook I use has a fairly traditional coverage of archaeology. Example of detailed group answer from March 2024: “They were omnivorous – they consumed large animals like pigs and cows as evidenced by the bones found in the fire hearth.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

In a new paper published in Advances in Archaeological Practice 1 , Ward and his colleagues are calling for museums to take a more ethical, culturally informed approach to caring for the bones of animals, particularly those tied to Indigenous traditions. With over 570 federally recognized Tribes in the U.S., Related Research Luby, E.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The collective aims to explore the intersection of craft, anthropological collaboration, and speculative futures in the Persian Gulf region. Fifteen students specializing in traditional handicrafts collaborated with local artisans to illustrate a children’s book.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A recent study, published on September 3, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS Complex Systems 1 , presents groundbreaking insights into the mechanisms driving social evolution. Gift giving, a prevalent practice in traditional societies, has long been observed by anthropologists to enhance social status by creating reciprocal obligations.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In May 2024, questions about who should care for refugees’ languages, and about what constituted a language worthy of care, emerged at a community-based workshop, “Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning (SEE Learning) for Multilingual Children,” in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has reconstructed the genomes of 13 individuals who lived between 1,300 and 10,000 years ago, revealing crucial insights into human migrations and population stability in southern Africa. 1 Gretzinger, J., Gibbon, V. Penske, S.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

The study, led by Assistant Professor of Anthropology W. The Need for Expanding Fossil Exploration Beyond Traditional Hotspots The study also calls for a broader approach to fossil exploration. ” He likens the situation to trying to capture the complexity of a city like Washington D.C. 1 Barr, W. A., & Wood, B.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Key contributors to the study include Carl Lipo, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Science; Robert J. ” Rethinking Easter Island’s History The traditional narrative of Easter Island has long been used as a cautionary tale, an example of how human societies can cause their own destruction by depleting natural resources.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Traditional sequencing techniques, which rely on short-read sequencing, were unable to accurately capture the multiple copies of the amylase gene present in human genomes. 1 Bolognini, D., Halgren, A., 1 Bolognini, D., Halgren, A., Raveane, A., Guarracino, A., Soranzo, N., Garrison, E., & Sudmant, P.

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Anthropology News

JULY 27, 2024

1934-2024 Donald E. After army service, in 1959, Brown returned to El Camino and declared anthropology as his major. He transferred to UCLA to continue his anthropology courses with M. One of his classmates was Carrie Chu, who was from Hong Kong and was studying anthropology and Southeast Asian history.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. Result African companies facing economic difficulties in 2024 are turn into artificial intelligence to reduce marketing and advertising expenses, raising concerns about potential job losses.

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MAY 17, 2024

Colonial disruptions of traditional societies also contributed to the waning of this hunting strategy. Decline and Disruption Endurance pursuits declined with the advent of rifles, horses, and hunting dogs, as these technologies offered more efficient means of hunting. 1 Morin, E., & Winterhalder, B. Nature Human Behaviour , 1–11.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 2, 2024

As the 2024 Summer Olympics captivate audiences with extraordinary athletic displays, it presents a timely opportunity to delve into the fascinating anthropology of endurance running. The Olympic Spirit and Human Endurance The 2024 Summer Olympics are a global stage where the world's top athletes showcase their prowess.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 23, 2024

Unlike traditional thrown spears, braced pikes allowed hunters to plant their weapon securely in the ground, increasing their chances of successfully stopping and killing large prey. But for whatever reason, it hasn’t been talked about too much in anthropology.” 1 Byram, R. Lightfoot, K. G., & Sunseri, J.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects. What is solidarity? Perhaps above all, it is to be lived.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Outside of anthropology, he became known for his popular salvos on work and democracyincluding the breakthrough publication Debt: The First 5,000 Years and his activism within the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011. More trade books of Graebers writing were released posthumously in 2023 and 2024.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

Through these poems, we pull an anthropological lens to our eye to look at critical questions of power and agency. In June 2024, our editorial team put out a call for submissions of anthropological poems of resistance, refusal, and wayfinding. Wherever there is injustice, there is refusal.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Credit: Evolution and Human Behavior (2024). 2024.05.003 According to Deb, the study highlights that both men and women in these communities enjoy comparable leisure time, challenging the traditional assumption that women bear a disproportionate workload. Current Anthropology, 26(2), 223–246. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.05.003

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Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Winkler Memorial Prize kskordal Wed, 09/25/2024 - 10:30 Image The John J. Approaches include (but are not limited to) those that Jack’s own work exemplified: feminism, anthropology, narratology, semiotics, cultural studies, ethnic studies, and LGBTQ+ studies. Winkler memorial prize.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 14, 2024

. “This is the first evidence of Maya sacrifices involving twins, which were important for Maya [beliefs about the universe],” …says Barquera, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Potential Reasons for the Sacrifices The reasons for the fatal ritual remain unclear. Penman, B.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

This method, combined with osteological analysis, proved instrumental in overcoming the limitations of traditional methods, particularly for incomplete or non-adult skeletons. Intersecting Genomics and Anthropology Co-author Pontus Skoglund envisions the broader application of this method to challenging archaeological remains.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. Below, we present case studies from three anthropology courses using three different sets of AI tools.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. In February 2024, a man walked by Gaza City’s Islamic University, which was destroyed by Israeli military strikes. In May 2024, U.S.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 21, 2024

1950–2024 Rafael Sánchez Cacheiro, retired senior lecturer at the Geneva Graduate Institute, passed away on February 22, 2024, in Geneva, after a valiant battle with cancer. Morris ) The post Rafael Sánchez Cacheiro appeared first on Anthropology News. Patricia Spyer and Rosalind C.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Below is a list of the most-read article from each journal in 2024, but be sure to visit each journal’s homepage on AnthroSource to see all of the incredible pieces they’ve published over the past year! Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Michael G. Lacy, Amber Wutich, H.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

The limits of collections research and digital access flashed like a neon sign when we first partnered as graduate students for an undergraduate course on museum anthropology and community collaboration. Credit: (Photograph by Guzmn, 2024) View of display cases, Bell Pettigrew Museum of Natural History, University of St.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Revisiting Assumptions About Brain Evolution Traditional views of human evolution suggested that brain size underwent sudden, transformative increases between species, akin to major technological leaps. Source: Current Anthropology. Source: Brain, Behavior and Evolution. Climatic Influences on Hominin Brain Evolution Nicholson, S.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

"We know the community of microbes living in the large intestine can produce compounds that affect aspects of human biology," explained Katherine Amato, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern and lead author of the study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 159 (S61), 196–215. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.22908

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

As India gears up for national elections in summer 2024, the atmosphere across the country is uncharacteristically flat. Conspiring for Democracy As half the world is scheduled to hold national elections in 2024, watchdogs are apprehensive about the global state of democracy.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Collectives like Lesbianas Autoconvocadas have been employing artivismo to create political consciousness around lived intersectional oppressions, forming webs of solidarity through activist spaces in collaboration with traditional protest workers. The post Queer Artivismo Is Community Care appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Sinema’s border outfit, indexing the cowboy, attempts to frame herself within this tradition. It also shows the political stakes of register incoherence: a month following her resignation from the Democratic Party, Democratic representative Ruben Gallego announced that he would run against her in the 2024 election.

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