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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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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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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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OPINION: Can technology save the liberal arts?

The Hechinger Report

Ultimately, the process of engaging with technology validated and enhanced faculty members’ commitment to teaching and learning in the arts and sciences.”. Leave this field empty if you're human: Technology can lead to an unexpected renewal in teaching — both online and in traditional classrooms. Choose as many as you like.

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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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Barbara Joans

Anthropology News

19352024 Credit: Bill Shaw Barbara Joans, 1935-2024 A graduate of Brooklyn College, Barbara Joans earned her doctorate in anthropology at the City University of New York in 1974. There she opened a one-of-its-kind museum that housed, among other things, Native American artifacts as well as an exhibit of local Black bikers.