Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 of ancient human DNA from the Oakhurst rock shelter in South Africa is shedding new light on population history in one of the world’s earliest regions of modern human activity. It contained more than 40 human graves and preserved layers of human artifacts, such as stone tools, going back 12,000 years.”

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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. ANOTHER SET OF TEETH “These teeth don’t belong to Egbert!”

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

“Even when they pass on, you still respect and honor them as non-human relatives. In archaeology’s early days, animal remains were often ignored, discarded, or treated as unimportant compared to human burials and artifacts. Discusses the ethical treatment of non-human remains in archaeology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00092.x

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The idea is predicated on the degree to which human behavior is held to be culturally determined, a basic tenet of American cultural anthropology. Boas criticized the use of EVOLUTIONARY STAGES as the basis for organizing museum displays, arguing that exhibits should display artifacts in the context of specific cultures.

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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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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. Multimedia works should target approximately 10 minutes in length.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

Whether or not this was originally an artifact of technical limitations, an oversight, or an otherwise intentional exclusion, my interlocutors response to the decision prioritized the relational obligations of family and government participation in the present over procedural precedent.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting is long associated with endeavors to unearth concealed artifacts, illustrated best by buried troves of gold left behind by past communities. Accidents happen in dangerous sites, the promised artifact eludes hunters, or suspicion and disagreements turn violent. May engagements with the past be a part of the picture?

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

In his groundbreaking book, The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature (2024), Slimak delves into the depths of Neanderthal life, challenging preconceived notions and offering a fresh perspective on what it means to be human. Slimak asserts. "We

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Nathan’s adventures always end in the destruction of sites and artifacts, a fact that isn’t discussed with the attention it deserves. This serves to both remove them from their real cultural context and also to alienate them from the ‘rational’, ‘scientific’, white humanity. Fictional stories don’t exist in a bubble.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

We chose to focus on personal objects to highlight the power of objects to capture and evoke universal human experiences— attachment, memory, and loss —that transcend cultural and national boundaries. The post Echoes of Home: Unearthing the Value of Personal Treasures in Forced Displacement Narratives appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Excavations starting in 2018 unearthed artifacts and charcoal samples, enabling precise radiocarbon dating. As anthropology pioneers, Toohey, Murphy, and their team exemplify the transformative power of research, bridging the past and present to illuminate humanity's rich cultural tapestry. 1 Toohey, J.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2024

1947–2023 Dr. Karen Ito was a dedicated anthropologist, committed to promoting the understanding of the diversity of human cultural experience, with significant and wide-ranging contributions to the field of anthropology. She studied anthropology at UCLA, earning her BA in 1969, MA in 1973, and PhD in 1978.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 23, 2024

This innovation, used during the Late Pleistocene, adds a new dimension to our understanding of early human survival strategies. Thousands of these points have been recovered, providing clues about the technology and skill of early humans. It’s an order of magnitude different.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Related: How to save the humanities? For example, the one archeologist on staff across the five participating campuses developed an anthropology course , delivered as a hybrid seminar in the spring and followed by a summer field school where students excavated indigenous artifacts on Block Island, 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As the anthropological definition of culture especially by scholars like E.B. Tylor includes everything from tools and artifacts to the abstract conceptualization of after-life, there are ample evidences which suggest that human evolution is as much as a social and cultural phenomenon as it is biological.

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Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 22, 2023

Culture and Personality Culture and personality is the name of a broad unrecognized movement which brings cultural anthropology, psychology and psychiatry together from about 1928 to 1955. After 1960s the field becomes known as psychological anthropology. Approaches: The approaches range from positivism to various hermeneutic humanism.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Finally, when flowers arrive at the florists shop, the care to transform natural beauty into cultural artifact iscarried out throughprecise physical techniques. This exploration of flowerscreatures we often take as symbols of pure, natural beautyreveals something profound about human aesthetic experience.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

They feared that human labor would be valued less and were apprehensive about the long-term consequences on their careers and lives. They imagined GenAI as sentient, but not “human,” and non-human sentience was seen as a threat. The post The Demystification of AI: An Industry Perspective appeared first on Anthropology News.

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