Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Like restrictive immigration policies, academic publishing limits movement: Elsevier and Springer charge exorbitant fees for research access, creating knowledge borders that restrict participation. Meanwhile, Annas Archive bypasses academic paywalls, making research freely available but raising legal and ethical questions about open access.

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APRIL 16, 2024

To approach engagements like the Joe Rogan Experience, I and other scholars must arm ourselves with science communication strategies , which research has shown can debunk misinformation in the current fake news environment. Recent misinformation research suggests a better approach, nicknamed a “ truth sandwich.” rarely cover the field.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Yet, new research from Dartmouth anthropologists suggests that risky play, such as climbing and swinging, fulfills an evolutionary need crucial to child development and resilience. ” The researchers connect this concept to our evolutionary history. .”

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations. What else may motivate one to search for treasures, then?

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

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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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Led by Associate Professor Jason Toohey and Professor Melissa Murphy, their research 1 sheds light on monumental megalithic architecture dating back approximately 4,750 years. Through outreach efforts, the team works closely with local residents to share findings and preserve cultural heritage. 1 Toohey, J.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2024

Recent research 1 conducted by interdisciplinary teams from Würzburg University Hospital (UKW), Homburg University Hospital (UKS), and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (MPI-EVA) aims to shed light on the genetic basis of liver steatosis through an archaeogenetic lens. 1 Geier, A.,

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I mean, you are just someone who has Chinese heritage, right?” This was what one of my interlocutors, Fangyi, said to me in the middle of our in-person interview after I told her that I do not use WeChat, except for research purposes, as none of my friends or families were on the app. So, you are not like a real Chinese.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

I was in Accra, Ghana, for my field research at the time, and the other participants were located in Oslo, Norway. Thanks to the work of writers and researchers like Ivorian-Norwegian Yacoub Cissé and Franco-Cameroonian historian Olivette Otele, we now have books like 400 Years of Black Norway and African Europeans: An Untold History.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Bonded by their shared experiences of never having had the opportunity to learn their heritage language, they come together every day to take beginner-level Mongolian classes and sing Mongolian songs. The post The Semi-Conductor Radio Made in Shanghai appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

Adapting to Harsh Realities The research, led by Dr. Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, highlights how Homo erectus repeatedly occupied areas in the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania—a UNESCO World Heritage site. ” Related Research **Antón, S. . ” Related Research **Antón, S. Harris, J.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

As a scientist who has researched language diversity for a decade and a half, I recently joined a team to work on a task that even some linguists think is “ ultimately unobtainable ”: helping catalog and count the world’s complex and ever-changing languages. For example, the Central African Republic hosts about 70 languages.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For six weeks, we spent 40 percent of our time at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) office and 60 percent of our time at partner institutions: the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC).

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The group shares information about the islands ancient history and the role of local collaborators in discovering that heritage. Umoja is also collecting Oral Histories to preserve the legacies of generations of Rusingans who facilitated research around the island. Others are schoolteachers, university students, and community leaders.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Some teeth were found in the Arbreda de Serinyà cave near Banyoles by a large group of researchers / ACN The teeth, meticulously analyzed, include specimens from children, a young individual, and an adult. The research team employed advanced dating techniques and comparative morphology to assign the teeth to Homo neanderthalensis.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In the following, I offer two compelling moments from my dissertation and consider how two research participants define and experience being a #NoSaboKid. For the anonymity of the research participant, I will be paraphrasing the following Twitter exchange. Even if L.A.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 10, 2025

Congress should cap the indirect cost rate paid to universities so that it does not exceed the lowest rate a university accepts from a private organization to fund research efforts. Indirect costs (IDCs) are those administrative expenses a university or other research organization incurs in providing the infrastructure to support a project.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Eighth-grader Zakaria Ali, right, a student of Somali heritage, talks about how Muslims lose their freedom when Americans equate Islam with terror, as eighth-grader Hadil Ramadan, left, listens. The federal government has resettled about 3 million refugees since Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980, according to the Pew Research Center.

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