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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways. This research challenges prevailing assumptions about speciation, offering a more nuanced framework for interpreting the evolutionary history of modern humans and their closest relatives. Journal : Evolutionary Anthropology , 2022. ” Dr. .

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This article is a part of The Conversation’s series on unique courses. For other articles in this series, read here and here. Today’s college students may benefit from an exciting array of subjects to study.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.”

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The first explicit elaboration of the concept occurred in Redfleld’s article “The Primitive World View” (1952). Further, every world view includes (e) an orientation of the self in time and space by means of major natural phenomena; and (f) a similar orientation to life crises in human existence. Mendelson 1956): 1.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. In 1989, a University of Oxford team claimed to have extracted, for the first time, DNA from ancient human bones. It seems Berger believes H.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic. This suggests that children may have recognized and elaborated upon the figurative potential of their own creations, blending play and representation in a uniquely human way.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: In what is today Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

Please note that this article includes images of human remains. This long-lost child, represented only by a lower jaw, was referred to as Ksâr ‘Akil 4 because it was the fourth human fossil discovered at the site of Ksâr ‘Akil in Lebanon, on the Eastern Mediterranean coast. No such cast was made of Ksâr ‘Akil 4.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

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. Journal : Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 2017. eyes, noses) weakens this claim.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Ariana Gunderson is a PhD student in Anthropology at Indiana University and the Anthropology News Section Editor for SAFN. I always come at that at the individual level: each body is different from a human variation perspective. I think that’s a big role that we can play in bringing humanity to the issue.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Students already using GenAI pointed to efficiency: “AI tools have significantly reduced the time I spend on research” or “I use AI tools to summarize articles for my assignments.” Credit: Photographer: Alan Decker. I can use this!

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 14, 2024

published in Journal of Human Evolution 1 , delves into the comparative morphology of the inner ears of Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus africanus , uncovering intriguing differences that illuminate aspects of their behavior, ecology, and evolutionary trajectories. africanus and modern humans. Recent research by Smith et al.,

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

In 1957 Len left medicine for a field that interested him far more, beginning the study of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and getting his PhD in 1963. Len is best known to historians of anthropology for an article published in 1982 that began a small academic industry.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

But first, the data thief gives a prompt on background generate a story on Africa’s AI narrative result: Semafor article titled AI Ads Are Sweeping Across Africa Prompt. Generate a summary of the article. The post Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Communication factories that they are, management has the task of reformulating how we do language, eliminating human error while preserving what makes it “human.” For most operators, such skill takes hours of training, on top of years of practice—and even then, no one is immune to human error.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This article accompanies a short film COOL TECH , which was produced as part of the Cool Infrastructures research project. Such “technical challenges” also constitute anthropological encounters with weather and technology. The post COOL TECH appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

About 46% of humans, well over three billion people, are native speakers of an Indo-European language. This is a huge step forward from the mutually exclusive, previous scenarios, towards a more plausible model that integrates archaeological, anthropological, and genetic findings.” Strange Maps #1220 Got a strange map?

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

A landscape of human skull shapes These black-and-white maps are aesthetically attractive as well as invitingly strange. ” To be more precise: these maps plot a landscape of human skull shapes. The Cephalic Index is still around today, but no longer to categorize humans. 81, and 85, respectively. Credit : George T.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It was commonplace to hear people talk passionately about the fact that children present at this protest were, in a way, used as human shields by their parents to discourage or counter potential intervention by security forces. In reading the hundreds of articles selected for our analyses, three images of the Convoy children came to the fore.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 11, 2024

The bones of the human skull, for instance, register underwater sound insofar as they resist it. In his article for The Promise of Infrastructure , Brian Larkin suggests that a “promise can refer to a vow, or a commitment, but its other meaning refers to the coming to be of a future state of affairs.” with intensity and mutation.”

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Though Carrington was quoted numerous times over the course of several articles, the only record of her voice was the plea overhead by Elsie Johnson on the day of the murder: “Please don’t kill me.” In photos from a few of the articles, we witness Johnnie Mae’s beauty. appeared first on Anthropology News.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After the shooting, I was invited to co-author an article on academic trauma for the American Journal of Human Biology. In my discipline of anthropology—a field inherently concerned with both cultural and biological diversity—there is an unsettling paradox.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived. Some universities are defunding and dismantling programs in archaeology , history , anthropology , art history , ancient languages , and classical studies. K–12 schools in the U.S.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Outdoor pollution (arising, in part, from burning fossil fuels, coal-fired power plants, oil and gas extraction, and fracking) was classified in 2015 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a group 1 carcinogen , meaning sufficient evidence exists to conclude that hazardous ambient air particle matter causes cancer in humans.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished with Creative Commons. ✽ The idea of “Man the Hunter” runs deep within anthropology, convincing people that hunting made us human, only men did the hunting, and therefore evolutionary forces must only have acted upon men.

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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 News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While these trends have been underway in the subfields of global health and economic development for some time, increasingly similar demands are being made for the incorporation of SBS into the fields of democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG). In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2024

On social media, at dinner parties, and in the halls of academia, suddenly everyone has a theory of language and what role it plays in structuring human, and maybe computer, thought. The public is in the process of, to use Lucy Suchman ’s term, “refiguring” the dividing line between humans and machines.

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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 theoretical ideas were the antithesis of humanistic and relativistic trends in cultural anthropology at the time. Over time, it became a unifying concept in American anthropology, spanning several subfields.

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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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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2016, as a master’s student, I published an article in Boston University’s Pardee Periodical (now The Pardee Atlas: Journal of Global Affairs ) about a new initiative at the ASDC to support their students. Many of the people I know through my research in Jordan are Palestinian, have family in Palestine, and/or are of Palestinian descent.

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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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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The limits of collections research and digital access flashed like a neon sign when we first partnered as graduate students for an undergraduate course on museum anthropology and community collaboration. In this article, we address multiple scales of care that comprise existing collections and knowledge production in the present and future.

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