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Children as Artists: A New Perspective on Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

Anthropology.net

The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic. Related Studies These articles provide diverse perspectives on children’s roles in prehistoric art, integrating developmental psychology, cognitive science, and archaeology.

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In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was Matrilineal

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This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published in January. The archaeology of the Celts increasingly demonstrates variations in social norms, even between neighboring regions.

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Dog Domestication: A Tale of Alaskan Canids and Human Companionship

Anthropology.net

The Study of Ancient Alaskan Canids To explore this complex history, a team of archaeologists led by François Lanoë from the University of Arizona analyzed 111 sets of bones from canids unearthed at archaeological sites across interior Alaska. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 2019. lupus/familiaris ).

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An Ode to Jonathan Marks, or How I Became a Marksist

Anthropology 365

I met Jon Marks in 2015, when I enrolled in the Masters program in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I had just finished a Bachelors degree in anthropology and philosophy at East Carolina University, full of ideas but unsure where they might lead. in Anthropology, and a Ph.D. It wasnt therapy.

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Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? This Teaching Anthropology Special Issue will explore approaches to trauma-informed anthropology and to consider key emerging discussions around trauma-informed approaches more broadly.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. Below, we present case studies from three anthropology courses using three different sets of AI tools.

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Call for Editor-in-Chief: American Anthropologist

Anthropology News

The American Anthropological Association seeks applications for a new Editor-in-Chief (or Coeditors-in-Chief) of the associations flagship journal, American Anthropologist ( AA ), for a four-year term beginning January 1, 2027, with an additional year shadowing the current Editor-in-Chief, beginning January 1, 2026.