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Faces from the Deep Past: How Europe's Skulls Record 30,000 Years of Upheaval

Anthropology.net

The results hint at a Europe in flux: a continent repeatedly reshaped not just by migration but by the slow churn of diet, disease, and cultural transformation. BC, without cultural affiliation, Věstonice cluster). BC, Gravettian culture). BC, Gravettian culture). BC, Magdalenian culture).

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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

ED Surge

Perhaps it is because I am Mexican American and colonization is a part of my ancestry. As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. In doing so, it makes me wonder, what else have we unknowingly appropriated from Indigenous culture?

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Norway law decrees: Let childhood be childhood

The Hechinger Report

million people , about 82 percent of whom are of Norwegian ancestry, across a space roughly the size of Montana. Nature and outdoor play are staples of Norwegian culture. The framework focuses heavily on play, a word that is repeated 56 times in the English version of the document. Daljord seemed amused by the whole interaction.

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Ancient Iberian Slate Plaques: Early Genealogical Records?

Anthropology.net

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. This suggests register numbers increased with generational distance from the ancestral homeland.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

Saykhamphone, who has Laotian and Nigerian ancestry, said there are not many other Black or Hispanic students in her accelerated International Baccalaureate (IB) classes, even though 85 percent of the student body is Black, Hispanic or Asian. Glenn Youngkin, a conservative Republican.

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Genetics Through Time: The Evolutionary Mosaic of Early Medieval Europe

Anthropology.net

Tracing Europe’s Genetic Footsteps The early medieval period was a transformative era, shaped by migrations, trade, and cultural exchanges. By using “time-stratified ancestry analysis,” this research employs the novel Twigstats approach to reconstruct Europe's genetic history with unprecedented clarity.

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World on the Move: Teenage Poets Slam their Truth

Anthropology News

Nevertheless, the scientific facts are there and the long history of race and racialization is documented. Born with our own culture. Culture stolen, languages mixed up, now each other we couldnt comprehend. Stripped from our culture. I dont know what legend in my ancestry broke free from this bondage of pain.