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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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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

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When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. Open-access sites like Annas Archive challenge these barriers, much like underground migration networks, offering access but risking legal suppression.

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Echoes of Movement: How the Grammar of Indigenous Languages Maps the Peopling of the Americas

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A new study in Scientific Reports 1 argues that their grammar preserves a faint but measurable imprint of the first humans to populate the continent. Naranjo have identified a gradient in grammatical complexity across the Western Hemisphere that aligns with the likely direction of prehistoric human expansion. link] Reich, D.

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In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was Matrilineal

Sapiens

The error perhaps was in believing that this was a single event in a linear, evolutionary understanding of humanity through time. Read more from the archives: When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows. Nonetheless, recent ancient DNA work is now revealing patrilineal descent for some Neolithic groups in Britain.

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A Linguist’s Night at the Ball

Sapiens

Dozandri explores the representation of Puerto Rican linguistic practices in the archive of ballroom history. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. Their doctoral research focuses on trans forms of creative expression in the Puerto Rican ballroom scene.

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

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The Bone Archive of Human History If genes are blueprints, skulls are blueprints weathered by time. Yet the ancient record, preserved in bone, reminds us that the human face has always been a product of history—a moving target shaped by who we are, what we eat, and where we go. Related Research Olalde, I.,

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Words in the Snow: What 616 Languages Reveal About the Human Mind

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” That insight—often stated in anthropological circles—is easy to romanticize but hard to quantify. They evaluated 163 cultural concepts previously suggested in the anthropological and linguistic literature, ranging from “snow” to “love,” “horses,” “ghosts,” and “taste.”