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

Anthropology.net

The Bone Archive of Human History If genes are blueprints, skulls are blueprints weathered by time. it can be recognized on the Aurignacian skulls from Mladeč, whereas the Brno morphology is first documented with the Gravettian," Grasgruber notes. A paleogenomic history of southeastern Europe. Related Research Olalde, I.,

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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. When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history. I have always felt connected to Indigenous peoples.

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Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education — with one big exception

The Hechinger Report

In this 2017 photo, students present their history projects at a New York City high school for recent immigrants and refugees. In a working paper distributed this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research, they documented that most immigrant groups either arrived with high levels of education or their U.S.

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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

He did, and Livingston soon found herself sitting in an introductory college course in US history. The next semester, she took two more US history classes, then realized she’d found her major. The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History.

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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. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Credit: Christina A.

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Genetics Through Time: The Evolutionary Mosaic of Early Medieval Europe

Anthropology.net

By using “time-stratified ancestry analysis,” this research employs the novel Twigstats approach to reconstruct Europe's genetic history with unprecedented clarity. Conversely, the late Viking Age shows a reversal, with central European ancestries moving northward into Scandinavia.