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APRIL 3, 2025

The end of the last Ice Age, spanning approximately 14,000 to 11,600 years ago, was a period of significant climatic fluctuations that profoundly influenced human populations in Europe. Credit: PLOS ONE (2025). Humans during the Final Paleolithic apparently responded by migrating to more favorable areas."​

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The Footprints That Rewrite History In the shifting gypsum sands of White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a series of fossilized human footprints have surfaced, casting a striking new light on the ingenuity of Ice Age inhabitants. A Glimpse into Prehistoric Life The implications of this discovery go beyond technology.

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MARCH 26, 2025

The early human settlement of South America stands as one of the last great migrations in human history, yet the environmental conditions that shaped this journey remain debated. Instead of deterring settlement, this cold phase appears to coincide with some of the earliest human activity in the region.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Human societies are built on layers of culture, law, and technology, yet beneath it all, some of the oldest instincts in the animal kingdom continue to shape our world. In A New Approach to Human Social Evolution 1 , neuroscientist and anthropologist Jorge A. At its core, the human brain retains an ancient architecture.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Over 100,000 years ago, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens roamed the Levant, a region that would become a crossroads of human migration. Exposed section of archaeological sediments dated to to 110 thousand years ago at Tinshemet cave A new study, published in Nature Human Behaviour 1 , brings fresh insight into this question.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For decades, the story of how human pigmentation changed as Homo sapiens spread across Europe has been told in broad strokes. Early humans arrived from Africa with dark skin, and as they adapted to lower UV radiation in northern latitudes, their skin lightened—a simple narrative of evolutionary selection. Credit: bioRxiv (2025).

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MARCH 31, 2025

The shift from a hunter-gatherer existence to an agrarian lifestyle stands as one of the most profound transformations in human history. However, recent research challenges this narrative, emphasizing the pivotal role of human interactions and demographic dynamics in this monumental change.​ Szécsényi-Nagy, A.,

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Female Animals and Animalized Women in the Greek and Roman Worlds kskordal Mon, 01/13/2025 - 15:13 Image Domesticated? Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, June 12-14, 2025. All too often, in these literary configurations, women lose autonomy and become something less than human, perhaps even threatening and bestial. by Feb 21, 2025.

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APRIL 2, 2025

During the African Humid Period (14,500–5,000 years ago), this region supported thriving human populations. Their findings, recently published in Nature , challenge existing models of early human migration and isolation in North Africa. Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations.

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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. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). This suggests that human groups may have had to compete more fiercely for caves and hunting grounds than once assumed.

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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. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there. Additional activities reinforced the lessons.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Discovery in the Desert The story of human migration is often told in sweeping arcs—great waves of Homo sapiens leaving Africa, moving into Eurasia, and eventually populating the entire planet. Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025). Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

But beneath its frozen surface lies a complex history of human migration, isolation, and adaptation. Their findings not only rewrite the history of Inuit migration but also challenge the Eurocentric lens of modern genetics and medicine. Credit: Nature (2025). American Journal of Human Genetics. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.10.005

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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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JANUARY 19, 2025

An Ancient Cave with Modern Questions Franchthi Cave, nestled in the Peloponnesian peninsula of Greece, has been a silent witness to 40,000 years of human history. Yet, the isotopic signatures of human bones do not strongly reflect these inputs, pointing to their limited dietary importance. Read more 1 Martinoia, V.,

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MARCH 7, 2025

When the "Lapedo Child" was unearthed in 1998 in the Lagar Velho Valley, it upended long-held assumptions about Neanderthal extinction and human evolution. This mosaic anatomy reignited debates about the extent of interbreeding between Neanderthals and early modern humans. Image credit: G.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The Mystery of the First Dogs Dogs, our oldest animal companions, have walked beside humans for tens of thousands of years. If correct, this finding challenges the long-held assumption that deliberate human intervention was necessary for the emergence of early dogs. The Role of Human Food: Was There Enough?

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MARCH 10, 2025

That lack of disturbance makes it an exceptional place to study how humans occupied the region during the final millennia of the Upper Paleolithic. The presence of butchery marks on many of these bones suggests that humans actively hunted and processed animals at the site. Indeterminate bone with a short cut mark; C.

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MARCH 4, 2025

This discovery does more than just fill a gap—it forces a reassessment of Mediterranean history itself. The earliest phase, dating between 2200–2000 BCE , provides evidence of human activity at the cusp of the Bronze Age transition. But the site’s legacy is profound. 1 Benattia, H., Onrubia-Pintado, J., Benerradi, M.,

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JANUARY 18, 2025

It exemplifies how ancient populations balanced coexistence and diversity, paving the way for future exploration of genetic and cultural intersections in human history. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2009.00348.x 1468-0092.2009.00348.x x This study adds a new dimension to the understanding of Avar society and its unique cultural fabric.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The scientific establishment, still enthralled by the Eurocentric idea that human origins were tied to Asia or Europe, was unwilling to accept an African cradle for humanity. His work was shaped by the racial and colonial attitudes of his time, and his interpretation of human evolution was, at times, influenced by problematic ideas.

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MARCH 13, 2025

Before the soft-footed, domesticated Felis catus found its way into Chinese homes, another feline species occupied human settlements for thousands of years. Their findings suggest that leopard cats filled the niche of rodent control in human settlements long before domesticated cats arrived. One possibility is their temperament.

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The precursor and inspiration for Rail Baltica was a curious event that occurred on August 23, 1989, when up to 2 million people linked hands across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — then still part of the Soviet Union — to form the longest human chain in history. More on that here. Credit : Laimonis Stīpnieks, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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MARCH 11, 2025

The site was first unearthed in 2009 when archaeologists noticed human bones protruding from the eroded banks of a stream near the fortress ruins. To clarify the history of the fortress, archaeologists turned to the remains of those who died there. Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History.

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MARCH 26, 2025

But in the upland regions of Warner Valley, Oregon, a different kind of evidence is telling the story of early human diets: microscopic starch granules trapped in the cracks of bedrock metates. Archaeology often deals with what remains—the bones, the stone tools, the charred remnants of ancient hearths. 1 Wilks, S. Louderback, L.

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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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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Human history is not just about where we came from but how we adapted to the ever-changing environments we encountered. Studies on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is inherited exclusively from the mother, found that all modern human mtDNA lineages trace back to a common ancestor in Africa, roughly 200,000 years ago.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. The attacks on 9/11 affected millions of people, and informed much of the public policy in action today but for these children, that event is history.

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MARCH 10, 2025

They were the remains of animals deeply intertwined with the histories and cultures of Indigenous communities. “Even when they pass on, you still respect and honor them as non-human relatives. “Even when they pass on, you still respect and honor them as non-human relatives. “You care for horses.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Within a few decades, they built an empire that stretched from the Eurasian steppe to the heart of Central Europe, reshaping political landscapes and leaving an imprint on European history. 137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes." Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 19 , 263-289. Rasmussen, S.,

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MARCH 6, 2025

Przedwojewska-Szymańska/PASI; Antiquity (2025) An Unexpected Discovery in the Highlands of El Salvador In 2022, archaeologists excavating the summit of a Preclassic structure in San Isidro unearthed an extraordinary tableau: five clay figurines carefully arranged in what appears to be a deliberate formation. Scale in centimetres.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

A Human Relations Committee Forms to Plan Integration In Belmont, a small town just west across the Catawba River from Charlotte, school integration presented fewer logistical problems, because segregated schools for black and white children were situated within a mile of each other. For a history of Rosenwald schools, see Thomas W.

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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.

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MARCH 27, 2025

The human pelvis is a structural keystone—shaping movement, birth, and even evolutionary trajectories. “The orientation of the sacrum in DNH 43 is strikingly similar to that of modern humans,” the researchers note. “This challenges some long-standing assumptions about early hominin posture and locomotion.”

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds summer institutes for teachers. These are tuition-free opportunities for K12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics. The deadline to apply is March 5, 2025. Visit the NEH website to browse all of the 2025 summer programs.

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MARCH 8, 2025

2025 Led by Dr. Sara Juengst, an international team of researchers analyzed the burial, comparing it to others from the region. History of the New World." The grave contained the remains of a young pregnant woman, a cranial fragment from another individual, and an assortment of grave goods that suggest a possible ritual sacrifice.

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JANUARY 29, 2025

CFP: Ancient Leadership Series for SAGE Business Cases kskordal Wed, 01/29/2025 - 08:32 Image Since 2018, SAGE Business Cases (SBC) has been inviting authors to contribute to its Ancient Leadership series. Proposal deadline is February 10, 2025. Authors will be notified of proposal decisions by mid-February 2025.

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