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Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 4, 2024
However, the journey to this unique bond between humans and canines was far from straightforward. A new study 1 suggests that in prehistoric Alaska, humans repeatedly domesticated and lived alongside not just dogs but also wolves, wolf-dog hybrids, and even coyotes. Sablin, M.
Anthropology 365
APRIL 23, 2025
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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Anthropology.net
MAY 15, 2025
Domestication as a Turning Point in Human Evolution The domestication of plants and animals is often framed as a cornerstone of civilization. Spengler III A growing number of archaeologists and evolutionary biologists now argue that domestication wasn’t simply something humans did to other species. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2413207122
Anthropology.net
APRIL 30, 2025
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.
Teaching Anthropology
DECEMBER 16, 2023
In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix. Human Organization. Teaching Anthropology.
Sapiens
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The error perhaps was in believing that this was a single event in a linear, evolutionary understanding of humanity through time. Nonetheless, recent ancient DNA work is now revealing patrilineal descent for some Neolithic groups in Britain. A reconstructed roundhouse gives a sense of what structures in the Iron Age looked like.
Anthropology.net
MAY 1, 2025
The Bone Archive of Human History If genes are blueprints, skulls are blueprints weathered by time. This suggests rapid morphological shifts due to male-driven founder events and local ecological adaptation. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 17 (5). Related Research Olalde, I., PNAS , 108(22), 9350–9355.
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