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Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School

Teaching Anthropology

Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally. Watching these moments in the field school was eye-opening and convinced us that teaching isn’t just about sharing knowledge; it’s also about keeping our own love for learning alive. Orchard at its core.

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Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School

Teaching Anthropology

Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally. Watching these moments in the field school was eye-opening and convinced us that teaching isn’t just about sharing knowledge; it’s also about keeping our own love for learning alive. Orchard at its core.

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Reflections on the “Historicity” of Child Death at Ireland’s Former Mother and Baby Homes

Anthropology News

Different religious orders with charitable missions in nursing, teaching, and the care of the poor received grants or capitation payments to run industrial schools for poor, orphaned, or otherwise disadvantaged children; homes for unmarried mothers and their unborn or young children, who were socially stigmatized; and orphanages.

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Call for Pitches: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Anthropology News

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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Do You Want to Write for SAPIENS?

Sapiens

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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Charting Uncharted: A Portrayal of Treasure Hunting

Anthropology News

Nathan’s adventures always end in the destruction of sites and artifacts, a fact that isn’t discussed with the attention it deserves. Shambhala, for example, originally exists in a context that reinforces Buddhist values and teachings. The post Charting Uncharted: A Portrayal of Treasure Hunting appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Echoes of Home: Unearthing the Value of Personal Treasures in Forced Displacement Narratives

Anthropology News

The sound bowl and its owner teach us the power of holding on, of moving through moments of despair to the potential of the next. Each artifact—the bloodstained Nicaraguan flag, the resonant Tibetan sound bowl, the scuffed dancing shoes, the heirloom necklaces, and the well-worn coat—serves as more than just a relic of the past.

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