Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The vibrant shades offered by ochre became instrumental in creating artwork that spanned the boundaries of the Stone Age, preserving a tradition that endures in many modern cultures worldwide. The enduring tradition of ochre use in Eswatini and beyond showcases the remarkable consistency in human expression across time. 1 MacDonald, B.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

To correct this, the team organized a workshop where archaeologists directly examined artifacts from both traditions side by side. 7, 8) Core with two opposing faces with parallel detachments This fundamental difference in technique suggests that these groups did not learn from one another or share a common cultural tradition.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This research also challenges traditional views that associate prehistoric art solely with adults. Journal : PLoS ONE , 2024. The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0309107 1 Wisher, I.,

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Credit: Science (2024). Traditional Fire Management and Cultural Burning: A Sustainable Model Indigenous Australians have developed nuanced fire management techniques over tens of thousands of years. Flowchart explaining the approach used in the present study to quantify past changes in fuels within the shrub layer (i.e., 1 Mariani, M.,

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 16, 2024

2024 Erich S. Gruen Prize kskordal Mon, 12/16/2024 - 08:56 Image In 2024, the fifth year of the SCS Erich S. The committee unanimously awards the 2024 Erich S. The committee was impressed by the papers quality and wide range of disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, types of evidence, and time periods.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

27, 2024, in San Carlos, Ariz. 27, 2024, in San Carlos, Ariz. In the 2023-2024 school year, the chronic absenteeism rate in the district fell from 76 percent to 59 percent — an improvement Dennison attributes partly to efforts to address their communities’ needs. 27, 2024, in San Carlos, Ariz. (AP AP Photo/Ross D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

2, 2024, in Watonga, Okla. 2, 2024, where about 14 percent of students at the school on the Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation are Native American in Watonga, Okla. She said Cheyenne students have been teased over aspects of their traditional ceremonies and powwow music. 2, 2024, in Watonga, Okla. government boarding schools.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Credit: Journal of Archaeological Science (2024). The deliberate alteration of sheep horns likely mirrored this tradition, transforming them into living symbols of the elite’s ability to dominate and reshape the natural world. Key features: (1) smooth area lacking suture, (2) frontal bone depression, (3) narrowing of horn cores.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

A New Way to Study Ancient Artifacts For decades, archaeologists have relied on traditional methods to analyze artifacts and architectural remains. The team also shared their findings during a presentation at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) on November 13, 2024. 1 Cobb, P.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

2024, November 21). "This new discovery shows that people were experimenting with new communication technologies much earlier and in a different location than we had imagined before now." The writing on the cylinders predates previously known examples of alphabetic scripts, traditionally thought to have originated in Egypt around 1900 BCE.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 25, 2025

These tools, characterized by a prepared-core technique that allowed for precise flake removal, have long been studied using traditional measurements. This new study offers a different lens: analyzing the entire three-dimensional structure of the core to assess how shape is controlled across different regions and tradition.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Credit: Flaviane Malaquias Costa Elizabeth Ann Veasey, a professor at USP and co-author of the study, explained: “We traveled from the remote past to the present, tracing a lineage from archaeological remains to extant maize varieties still being cultivated by traditional peoples.” DOI:10.1073/pnas.1120270109 1 Costa, F.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The findings challenge traditional assumptions that knowledge is primarily passed from parent to child: • Extended Family’s Role: Relatives beyond parents play a significant role in cultural transmission. 1 Hewlett, B. Boyette, A. Lew-Levy, S., Gallois, S., & Dira, S. Cultural transmission among hunter-gatherers.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Testing the Hypothesis with Replicas To test this hypothesis, the research team recreated similar stones using local pebbles and a flint drill, then enlisted Yonit Kristal, a traditional craftsperson, to spin flax using these replicas. 1 Yashuv, T., & Grosman, L. PloS One , 19 (11), e0312007.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This year marked the first time that applicants were required to submit video essays on their favorite history lessons, as opposed to traditional essays.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Unlike traditional fieldwork, lidar can reveal structures concealed by dense vegetation or earth, transforming how researchers study ancient civilizations. Ancient buildings clustered on a hilltop are revealed by a narrow transect of lidar survey data. 1 Auld-Thomas, L., Canuto, M. Morlet, A. Estrada-Belli, F., Chatelain, D., Matadamas, D.,

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Their findings underscore the importance of Central Asia not only as a geographical way point but as a cultural and technological nexus where different human populations may have encountered each other over millennia. 1 Zaidner, Y., & Kurbanov, S. Soii Havzak: a new Palaeolithic sequence in Zeravshan Valley, central Tajikistan.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

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. My goal is to foster discussion, rather than simply hunting for facts.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Opportunities Driving Growth and Innovation The findings challenge traditional narratives attributing the rise of mega-settlements to external pressures like climate change or resource scarcity. Change and archaeology. PDF available Introduces new frameworks for interpreting changes within archaeological records. 1 Arponen, V.

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Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 7, 2024

She is a 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Cape Town’s Department of Anthropology. She serves as an interim COIL/Virtual International Exchange Coordinator and an academic advisor for post-traditional learners. Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Join APSA for our third webinar in a series exploring the 2024 U.S. How are political science educators bringing the 2024 U.S. What assignments or activities should political science educators use to help undergraduates understand the 2024 U.S. Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

I watched students drop out of school in their hearts because they did not fit traditional education,” said Enge, who is Black. “We’re Texas State Representative Glenn Rogers speaks to supporters after a meet and greet as part of his campaign to get re-elected in District 60 in Springtown, TX on February 16, 2024.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Take a casual stroll through the past predictions I made about education, leading up to 2024. Hybrid learning – a blend of online and traditional classes – really took off, especially when the pandemic stirred things up. You'll see they were pretty spot-on. Digital skills?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Eighty percent of Americans think online learning after high school should cost less than in-person programs, according to a 2024 survey of 1,705 adults by New America. Bittners confusion about the price is widespread. After all, technology has reduced prices in many other industries. These online courses could be cheaper. Make them cheaper.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

However, this does not mean that they have lost interest in the language and traditions of their parents and grandparents. In addition, these courses are accompanied by community events, such as a religious community dinner celebrating the holiday of Pessah/Passover in the traditional Tunisian Jewish manner.

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Living Geography

APRIL 29, 2025

Far from undermining traditional geography, it enhances our ability to understand complex, interconnected environments that impact both physical places and human experiences. Source World Economic Forum Global Risks Perception Survey 2005-2006 to 2024-2025.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 2, 2025

Yet the lithic traditions here were not carbon copies of what was happening in the Levant or the Caucasus. On the Edge of Innovation Although the assemblage includes distinctive Middle Paleolithic signatures—particularly the use of the Levallois technique—it also contains traits more common in later periods. link] 1 Hashemi, S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

They now need nine months of additional school to catch up, according to NWEA’s analysis, released in July 2024. Curriculum Associates did not detect as much deterioration as NWEA, but did find widespread stagnation in 2023-24, according to a report released on August 19, 2024.

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Anthropology News

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. How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations?

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Maitri Learning

MAY 2, 2025

For decades, the United States has invested billions in reading research, yet nearly two-thirds of fourth graders still cannot read proficiently according to national assessments (National Assessment for Educational Progress [NAEP], 2022; Weasler, 2024). This approach provides a bridge to reading that many traditional methods overlook.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 27, 2024

Recently published in PLOS ONE 1 , research by scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology (LDA) of Saxony-Anhalt explores the rich tapestry of culinary traditions spanning from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age.

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Zinn Education Project

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.

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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. 2017.04.006 Sorensen (2024) – Explores how manganese dioxide was used in fire-starting techniques by early humans.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 29, 2025

Lithic artifacts recovered during recent surveys—specifically tanged points, backed bladelets, and other microliths—match the technological signature of the Ahrensburgian tradition, which spread across northern Europe in the terminal Pleistocene. Stone tools found on Skye. Hardy et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

The trend crosses traditional political divides. McShane of the conservative American Enterprise Institute in a 2024 early childhood policy report. A growing number of cities, states and individual programs, including Texas , Virginia , Mississippi and Washington, D.C. , Young children need close adult supervision, wrote Frederick M.

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The 1st Lost In Time interdisciplinary intellectual history conference offers a platform for scholars from a variety of disciplines who are interested in concepts and their contexts, which have not traditionally predominated within intellectual history. The joy of intellectual history is its ability to retrieve long lost concepts from the past.

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 23, 2025

The book draws on anthropologys four-field tradition to show how our ways of knowingwhether biological, linguistic, archaeological, or culturalare always shaped by politics, language, funding, and history. His most recent book, Understanding Human Diversity (2024), brings many of these threads together.

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