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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image credit: The Natural History Museum via Alamy Stock Photo) The Role of the Pinky in Early Tool Use The researchers observed that the pinky finger played a significant role in grasping, particularly in early hominins like A. These findings point to a progressive evolution of dexterity and fine motor skills within early hominins.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Morphological characterization of a teosinte sample at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in the United States. This race, still cultivated in parts of Brazil and Uruguay, provides a living connection between the region’s agricultural past and present. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1120270109 1 Costa, F.

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Sapiens

MARCH 17, 2025

This series came to life when Jagdeep Raina, an artist born in Ontario, Canada, with roots in Kashmir, invited me to respond to his exhibition Destroyer at the Art Gallery of Burlington in 2024. The erasures are conceived as sites of refusal and of imagining liberatory futures.

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MAY 1, 2025

in April 2024. “This research is a landmark project,” said archaeologist David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History. Concerns over nearby oil and gas development around Chaco Canyon prompted Picuris leaders to seek data that might bolster their longstanding claims of connection to the site.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Applications open soon for our Fall 2024 Multi Day seminars ! Discussion of primary documents. A supportive and engaged group of educators. Historic locations. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics.

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JULY 15, 2024

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building. Schedule Prairie View A&M University Gathering, Sept.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The evening is not just to introduce new people to RGS East but also to the wealth of superb indigenous material held in the Gallery – the best collection in the UK outside the big London museums. We aim to finish the evening at 9.30. I shall be attending and hope to see some of you there. It sounds like being a really good evening.

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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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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. If you can’t find one, don’t worry.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. For both of us, this was our first show in a museum. Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Their meta-analysis was published in the July 2024 issue of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. In these studies, researchers typically observed parents and children interacting in a university lab, a school, a museum or at home and kept track of how often parents mentioned numbers or shapes.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’m in a conference room in a Civil War museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, attending a keynote panel about preventing violence in the lead-up to the U.S. With the 2024 election looming, and the memory of the January 6, 2021, capitol insurrection still fresh, many warn the situation could get worse. the moderator asks. election in November.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. Maybe I could work in a museum or a library. I also explored possibly working in curation or some kind of a museum setting, but always found myself coming back to teaching. I'll be leaving in 2024.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

February 2024 Update: The school district’s firing of Katie Rinderle was just upheld by the state board. Milo’s Museum By Zetta Elliott Illustrated by Purple Wong A story that introduces readers to the mis-representation (and absence) of people of color in museums and how to take action, in collaboration with family and friends.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Image Credit: *Radiocarbon* (2024). Archaeologists from the Lolland-Falster Museum, in collaboration with Aarhus University, have analyzed the site and published their findings in Radiocarbon 1. (b) A photo showing an overhead view of the cellar from the east, aligning with the reconstruction's orientation. (c) DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2024.79.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 led by researchers at the Nagoya University Museum in Japan offers fresh insights into the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens during their dispersal across Eurasia roughly 50,000 to 40,000 years ago. 1 Kadowaki, S., Wakano, J. Watanabe, A., Tsukada, K., Tarawneh, O., & Massadeh, S. Nature Communications , 15 (1).

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Anthropology.net

MAY 9, 2024

Museum Object Number: NA11611 Image Number: 146713, 19495 Mirrors: Portals to the Otherworld The ancient Maya's mirrors 2 were not mere tools for personal grooming; they were intricate pieces woven into the tapestry of spiritual practices. Pyrite Mosaic Mirror from Guatemala. 1 Freidel, D. Navarro-Farr, O. Meléndez, J. Pérez, J.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 28, 2024

An artist’s impression of a Neanderthal family on display at the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia. This discovery offers profound insights into the social dynamics and empathy within Neanderthal communities. 1 Conde-Valverde, M., Quirós-Sánchez, A., Diez-Valero, J., Mata-Castro, N., García-Fernández, A., Carretero, J.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In June, ASHP researcher Emily Uruchima (Kichwa) participated in Indigenous Voices of the Americas: Celebrating the National Museum of the American Indian at the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festiva l. More information on the 2024 Indigenous Voices program and/or annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival can be found here.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

William Taylor, co-author of the study and curator of archaeology at the CU Museum of Natural History, explained that the earliest definitive evidence of humans using horses for transport comes from the region near the Ural Mountains, dating back approximately 4,000 years. 1 Hosek, L., J., & Taylor, W. Science Advances , 10 (38).

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Courtesy of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. During the 2024 summer residential program, he delivered the Sunday evening lecture, “After Party: The Roots of Congress’s Dysfunction.” President Nixon addressing a joint session of Congress; WHPO-9299-07; 6/1/1972.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

The application will be open September 9-29, 2024. Some of our topics include: Security, Self Determination, and Empire: The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA. Controversy, Consensus, and Compromise in the American Founding, at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, AZ. Augustine, FL.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Kennis brothers, courtesy of The Natural History Museum, London New Insights from Ancient Genomes A groundbreaking study analyzed 58 ancient Eurasian genomes alongside the DNA of 275 contemporary humans. The reconstructed face of male Neanderthal based on the remains of a 40,000-year-old Homo neanderthalensis found in Belgium. Pierini, F.,

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 11, 2024

Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, highlighted this possibility, noting that modern humans carrying Neanderthal ancestry could have subsequently spread across the globe. 1 Iasi, L. Chintalapati, M., Hajdinjak, M., M., & Moorjani, P. In bioRxiv (p. 2024.05.13.593955).

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 19, 2024

Call for Applications: 2025 – 2026 Getty Scholars Program at the Villa kskordal Mon, 08/19/2024 - 08:50 Image Getty Scholars Program at the Villa The J. Paul Getty Museum is pleased to announce the research theme for the 2025 – 2026 Getty Scholars Program at the Villa , “Religious Experience in Antiquity.”

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Anthropology.net

MAY 11, 2024

Archaeologists from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence , in collaboration with partners from Serbian museums, have unearthed a remarkable discovery: a previously unknown Late Neolithic settlement nestled near the Tamiš River in Northeast Serbia. Map of the sites that were surveyed as part of the 2024 spring campaign.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Visited on-site June 2024. History this Week. The History Channel. I Question America: 1963-1964.” Jackson, MS. SNCC & Grassroots Organizing: Interpretive Booklet. SNCC Legacy Project. Malik Ali teaching.

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Women's History Network

JANUARY 14, 2024

Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On Friday 28 June 2024 People’s History Museum, Manchester Keynote speakers: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright 2024 marks the 45th anniversary of the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist text, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism.

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Women's History Network

APRIL 21, 2024

Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On A free one-day conference at People’s History Museum, Manchester Friday 28 June 2024 Keynote speakers: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright 2024 marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist text Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism. (..)

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Civics for All of US

JANUARY 11, 2024

Teaching Presidential Elections with the National Archives Katie Munn Thu, 01/11/2024 - 16:02 Body Join education specialists from several Presidential Libraries and Museums for this professional development program for educators on teaching elections with the records of the National Archives.

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Society for Classical Studies

APRIL 18, 2024

In addition to Harvard's own museums and libraries, visitors can take advantage of greater Boston's rich dining, entertainment, and cultural resources, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Boston Public Library, all easily reached by the MBTA subway from Harvard Square.

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 9, 2024

Also welcome are pedagogical approaches to studying these sensitive topics (both in the classroom and in public-facing spaces such as museums). Keywords: 1.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 15, 2024

Field Museum scientist Luis Muro Ynoñán with the carving of a mythological bird creature in La Otra Banda, Cerro Las Animas. 2024, July 10). Archaeologists in Peru have made a groundbreaking discovery 1 : the remains of a 4,000-year-old temple and theater. 1 Ancient temple and theater discovered in Peru. Fieldmuseum.org.

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Society for Classical Studies

MAY 1, 2024

1863 – 1923) kskordal Wed, 05/01/2024 - 08:33 Image Georgia Historical Society Historical Marker Dedication: John Wesley Gilbert (c.1863 1863 – 1923) Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. Historical Marker Dedication: John Wesley Gilbert (c.1863

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

On Monday, March 4, 2024 , award-winning musicologist and music historian Guthrie P. will discuss his book Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present. A Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. Dr. Ramsey has lectured on music nationally and internationally.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

American Academy in Rome: Classical Summer School kskordal Fri, 02/09/2024 - 08:27 Image The American Academy in Rome invites applications to participate in its annual Classical Summer School, founded in 1923. The new deadline is February 23, 2024.** DATES June 16–July 19, 2024.

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