Anthropology News

JULY 16, 2024

This summer, tthe AAA hosted three interns through the Virtual High School Internship , and throughout the summer, the interns engaged in a variety of enriching activities: Research Projects: They read scholarly research articles, took them apart to see how they were constructed, and communicated their methods and findings to diverse audiences.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Issued: September 30, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until December 1, 2025 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the theme of migration. Read more about us here and consider how you might tell anthropological stories for a general audience as you consider the direction of your pitch.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

Please note that this article includes images of human remains. From the photo, we learned new details about this pivotal population—a discovery that highlights the importance of archival research and the seemingly mundane paper trail that should accompany any anthropological fieldwork. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Issued: February 5, 2024 Pitches due: March 4, 2024 Decisions: March 22, 2024 First drafts due: April 17, 2024 Anthropology News invites submissions for the fourth issue of 2024, which will explore the multifaceted concept of “treasure” through an anthropological lens. Feature articles should be around 2,000 words.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation. I’m an archaeologist anthropologist who started writing in the anthropology publication about 15 years ago and had the seed idea of what would become SAPIENS and brought it to fruition. That topically we are focusing on anthropology.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Grove, Jubilee Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Courtesy Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, passed away on May 24, 2023, at the age of 87 after a long illness. His career trajectory focused on the archaeology of complex societies in central Mexico c.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 6, 2024

Issued: June 6, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until September 1 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Pitch Here As the 2024 American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting approaches, Anthropology News invites submissions that delve into the dynamic realm of anthropological praxis.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 19, 2024

Kaddee attended the College of Wooster in Ohio and spent her junior year at the study abroad program, College Year in Athens, where she would get firsthand experience in the classics and archaeology. In the summer of 1969, she rejoined the Franchthi Cave project and did a stint in Turkey at the archaeological site of Gordion.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

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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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

ENTERING THE FRAY I agreed to discuss archaeology with pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on the mega-popular but controversial podcast the Joe Rogan Experience. But reaching those outside my echo chamber demands more than my archaeological expertise. I’m distinguishing archaeology from mythology. Many people buy it.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2024

Two biological anthropologists analyze archaeological and physiological evidence to debunk enduring assumptions about the gendered division of labor in ancient times. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished with Creative Commons. ✽ I also excavate at their archaeological sites.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

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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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Steward’s theory: Steward created a theoretical perspective that was distinctive in mid-20th-century anthropology. His environmental perspective on culture was unusual, as was his synthesis of comparative, secondary data from archaeological and ethnographic research. It was also thoroughly behaviorist.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Author’s note: “Aeroroute” is a composite term I introduce in this article to capture the unique material character of what Stuttgart locals call Frischluftzufuhr, Frischluftschneise, Kaltluftschneise, or Luftleitbahnen, all of which refer to a passage through which fresh and cool airs flow.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This year, AAA journals published more than 600 articles, garnering almost 2 million views! Below is a list of the most-read article from each journal in 2024, but be sure to visit each journal’s homepage on AnthroSource to see all of the incredible pieces they’ve published over the past year! Snodgrass, Michael G.

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