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Ancient Iberian Slate Plaques: Early Genealogical Records?

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A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Journal : Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 2017.

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Are Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Separate Species?

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Related Research Studies These articles highlight significant debates and evidence regarding Homo sapiens and Neanderthal speciation, evolution, and interrelations. Journal : Evolutionary Anthropology , 2022. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Sciences , 2007. Were Neanderthals and Homo sapiens 'Good Species'?

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Study: The Indo-European language family was born south of the Caucasus

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This is a huge step forward from the mutually exclusive, previous scenarios, towards a more plausible model that integrates archaeological, anthropological, and genetic findings.” This article Study: The Indo-European language family was born south of the Caucasus is featured on Big Think. Strange Maps #1220 Got a strange map?

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Fighting for Justice for the Dead—and the Living

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The pandemic also took a toll on other historically marginalized groups: For example, the annual rate of death by suicide among elders over the age of 85 in Clark County, Nevada, increased by 14 percent across the pre- and post-pandemic periods, according to research in forensic anthropology. In fact, many of us rarely, if ever, testify.

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Illegibility and Immobility in the Social Lives of Muslim Migrants in Japan

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Foreign residents and Japanese of mixed ancestry try to pass as Japanese to avoid the stigma of being a foreigner. Growing up in 1960s Palestine, heused totranslate TIME Magazine articles into Arabic with his friends. Alex Wolff and Yanping Ni are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology.