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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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MARCH 25, 2025

These tools, characterized by a prepared-core technique that allowed for precise flake removal, have long been studied using traditional measurements. This new study offers a different lens: analyzing the entire three-dimensional structure of the core to assess how shape is controlled across different regions and tradition.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds. Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Intersectional Anthropology. Here, I share about my class, “Intersectional Anthropology,” and reflect on some of the ways it has played into my career, while also acknowledging my privileges as a person who holds a Ph.D. Bio)archaeology is no stranger to its colonial baggage.

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MAY 2, 2025

“The archaeological record here was practically a blank page,” noted Seyyed Milad Hashemi of Tarbiat Modares University, the project’s lead researcher. Yet the lithic traditions here were not carbon copies of what was happening in the Levant or the Caucasus. However, the archaeological material is surface-level.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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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 28, 2021

It is also known as physical anthropology, which originally referred to the study of human biology within the framework of evolution and with an emphasis on the interaction between biology and culture. Physical anthropology is the original term, and it reflects the initial interests of anthropologists in describing human physical variation.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

One such discovery has emerged from the archaeological site of Jebel Faya, a rock shelter nestled in the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025). Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition. New micro-archaeological data from Fuente del Salín cave (Val de San Vicente, Cantabria).

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

A recent study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 takes a significant step toward answering these questions. The Engraved Stones of the Levant The researchers focused on five artifacts from four archaeological sites: Manot Cave, Amud Cave, Qafzeh Cave, and Quneitra. Current Anthropology.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe.

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MARCH 10, 2025

In a new paper published in Advances in Archaeological Practice 1 , Ward and his colleagues are calling for museums to take a more ethical, culturally informed approach to caring for the bones of animals, particularly those tied to Indigenous traditions. Are they places where we treat archaeological objects as inanimate things?

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada We are all familiar with Spurgeon’s adage: “begin as you mean to go on.” One of my course aims is to introduce students to how anthropology has changed and one aspect of this is through critiquing traditional typologies. & Bolliger, D.U.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada We are all familiar with Spurgeon’s adage: “begin as you mean to go on.” One of my course aims is to introduce students to how anthropology has changed and one aspect of this is through critiquing traditional typologies. & Bolliger, D.U.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds. Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally.

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has reconstructed the genomes of 13 individuals who lived between 1,300 and 10,000 years ago, revealing crucial insights into human migrations and population stability in southern Africa.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Role of Gift Giving in Traditional Societies Throughout human history, societies have transitioned through various organizational forms, such as bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and kingdoms. Despite the recognition of these forms, the quantitative criteria and mechanisms underlying these transitions have remained elusive.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Traditional sequencing techniques, which rely on short-read sequencing, were unable to accurately capture the multiple copies of the amylase gene present in human genomes. 1 Bolognini, D., Halgren, A.,

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AUGUST 23, 2024

” The Innovation of Braced Pikes New insights into the use of Clovis points have emerged through experimental archaeology. Unlike traditional thrown spears, braced pikes allowed hunters to plant their weapon securely in the ground, increasing their chances of successfully stopping and killing large prey. 1 Byram, R.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The lawyers of landowners used juridical archaeology to win the case: they unearthed a special instruction under the authority of the führer that had been issued on the eve of World War II, made it valid again , and thereby canceled the building plans after 1942. The post The Aeroroutes of Stuttgart appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

This entry marks our departure as Contributing Editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s (AFA) column in Anthropology News ( AN ). We also write to reflect on the works we patiently, lovingly, and laboriously shepherded into publication over the past four years and what they reveal about feminist anthropology.

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APRIL 25, 2025

At Abu Fatima, an ancient cemetery near the capital city of Kerma, a new study has taken a closer look at the skeletal remains of 30 individuals, unearthing physical traces of a world where the labor of women was essential, taxing—and all but erased from traditional historical narratives. Current Anthropology , 60(3), 350–375.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Cut Marks and Cracked Bones: The Case for Cannibalism Maszycka Cave is not new to the anthropological world. ” Alternatively, the butchery of human remains could have been embedded within a complex mortuary tradition. And what does this tell us about the social structure of Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers?

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I leave for class early, saving enough time to sit outside by the anthropology building and watch people go by. I chose Western Washington University for two reasons: the relatively cheap tuition and the trees that line the entire length of the campus. “I’m studying archaeology, specifically zooarchaeology,” I say. “Oh,

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

By the end of the first millennium CE, another tradition emerged: elaborate mound and enclosure complexes (MECs), highly visible structures perched atop hilltops. 2025 A new study, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 1 , examines these burial landscapes to better understand their significance.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As the anthropological definition of culture especially by scholars like E.B. Archaeologists surmise that many early tools were also made of wood and bone, but these do not survive in the archaeological record. In humans, we call these learned and patterned behaviors norms, customs, and traditions.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

This method, combined with osteological analysis, proved instrumental in overcoming the limitations of traditional methods, particularly for incomplete or non-adult skeletons. Intersecting Genomics and Anthropology Co-author Pontus Skoglund envisions the broader application of this method to challenging archaeological remains.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

Through these poems, we pull an anthropological lens to our eye to look at critical questions of power and agency. In June 2024, our editorial team put out a call for submissions of anthropological poems of resistance, refusal, and wayfinding. In Debitage, Jade Lomas generates a new poetic form inspired by archaeological terminology.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

American Anthropologist Ethnographic methods: Training norms and practices and the future of American anthropology Rosalyn Negrn, Amber Wutich, H. Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Michael G. Lacy, Amber Wutich, H. Russell Bernard, Kathryn S. Oths, Melissa Beresford, Shawna Bendeck, Julia R.

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APRIL 19, 2025

That idea fits with archaeological observations from the African MSA. Current Anthropology , 37(S1), S1–S38. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa , 50(2), 155–226. But Inaba and Akiyama suggest the pressures may have run deeper. They may have fostered not just better thinkers, but better collaborators.

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MAY 5, 2025

Note that the support column has been removed from the glass core shown in the bottom panel A new study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 suggests it was anything but random. Because in Palaeolithic archaeology, stone tools are among the best proxies for understanding cognition. McNaughton, M.,

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APRIL 19, 2025

Credit: Archaeological Research in Asia The object, just 51 mm in length and 15 mm wide, lacks facial features. According to a collaborative report published by Japanese and Azerbaijani researchers in Archaeological Research in Asia 1 , this is the first such artifact known from Mesolithic layers in the South Caucasus.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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