Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Intersectional Anthropology. Here, I share about my class, “Intersectional Anthropology,” and reflect on some of the ways it has played into my career, while also acknowledging my privileges as a person who holds a Ph.D. and, in the context of international research, has United States citizenship.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

A decolonized retelling of this discovery must acknowledge their role in unearthing one of the most important fossils of the 20th century​ Decolonizing Paleoanthropology The Taung Child is not just a fossil—it is a symbol of the complicated history of paleoanthropology in Africa. The next century of research must be different.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

Instead of that essay, I reflect here on the problematic my response in this anecdote highlights: balancing the patterned resonance of history and the total singularity of each life, in attempts to name and redress harm done at Mother and Baby Institutions (M&BIs) and in ethnographic work. Good material for an essay like this one.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

New research, published in Nature 1 by an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, delves into the lives of two neighboring Avar communities in Lower Austria. Related Research **Pohl, W. “The Avars: A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567–822.”

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Deciphering the Plaques: A History of Theories Since the 1800s, scholars have speculated about the meaning of these artifacts, numbering around 1,626 recovered to date. Related Studies These articles expand on themes of material culture, identity, and the anthropological interpretations of Iberian engraved plaques.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Study of Ancient Alaskan Canids To explore this complex history, a team of archaeologists led by François Lanoë from the University of Arizona analyzed 111 sets of bones from canids unearthed at archaeological sites across interior Alaska. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 2019. lupus/familiaris ).

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

He majored in anthropology at Yale, writing a thesis on African folktales. His early anthropological career was influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss. David came to the University of Virginia in 1973, where he taught for 34 years and was a pivotal figure in building the newly established Department of Anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 27, 2025

Yet, could these stories also encode the history of humanity’s migrations and interactions? By combining genetic data with a vast database of over 2,000 mythological motifs, this research uncovers how the tales we tell may trace back to the Out of Africa migration, some 60,000 years ago.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

It is also known as physical anthropology, which originally referred to the study of human biology within the framework of evolution and with an emphasis on the interaction between biology and culture. Physical anthropology is the original term, and it reflects the initial interests of anthropologists in describing human physical variation.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

She planned to major in digital media arts, but before she could start, Delta State eliminated that major, along with 20 other degree programs , including history, English, chemistry and music. Azariah Journey is a second-year graduate student in history at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, which is cutting 20 degree programs. “Is

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Researchers from the University of Tübingen have found that australopithecine hands exhibited the necessary muscle attachments for complex object manipulation. These attachment sites adapt and strengthen with frequent use, allowing researchers to infer habitual behaviors. "By The hand bones of Australopithecus sediba.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. Such interest also distracted from the breakthrough’s Nobel-worthy value: answering scientific questions about species’ history and evolution.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

i] History of the usage: The word “peasant” appears in English in late medieval and early modern times, when it was used to refer to the rural poor, rural residents, serfs, agricultural laborers, and the “common” or “simple” people. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi]

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Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

Having hoped to bring the exhibit to campus for the past number of years, we were finally able to do so after securing a small grant from our campus Center for the Latino/a and Latin American Studies Center (CLLAS), and with collaboration from the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The researchers argue that the victims’ treatment was an act of dehumanization—an attempt by the attackers to reduce their enemies to the status of animals. The researchers propose that the violence may have been driven by social tensions rather than resource competition. Early Bronze Age Britain (c. link] Smith, G.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value. The ability to preserve history is a form of power, and that power is rarely in the hands of the public. But migration is never neutral.

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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. ” Despite these challenges, the research team was able to construct a time series of genomes spanning 10,000 to 1,300 years ago.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Merging anthropology and journalism was attempted through the ‘70s into the aughts. Grindall and Robin Rhodes. Grindall and Robin Rhodes.

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Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

A Tanzanian historian and poet conjures alternative engagements with Black African women who were marginalized by violent colonial histories and imprisoned in the archives. In my work, I do not try to balance the blood-tinged scales of history, nor do I write toward retribution. The time for that has passed.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As our team of researchers drove southeast through Utah toward Bears Ears National Monument , changes in the landscape unfolded around us. But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management. management policies that limit their access.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

Now, an international team of researchers 1 has uncovered the first ancient genomes from this long-lost ecosystem, shedding new light on an ancient North African lineage that has all but disappeared. Instead, the researchers propose that herding may have spread through cultural transmission rather than population replacement.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

leading research excavations, the Durotriges project of the University of Bournemouth. While some of the press coverage about the new research portrayed the findings as a surprise, archaeologists were far from shocked. The new findings come from individuals buried at the Late Iron Age cemetery of Winterborne Kingston in Dorset.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced. The researchers also found evidence of close kinship among the Ranis individuals, including a mother and daughter.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

New research involving faculty from Binghamton University, State University of New York, disproves the widely held belief of a “population crash” on Easter Island, revealing it to be a myth. Key contributors to the study include Carl Lipo, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Science; Robert J.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

The shift from a hunter-gatherer existence to an agrarian lifestyle stands as one of the most profound transformations in human history. However, recent research challenges this narrative, emphasizing the pivotal role of human interactions and demographic dynamics in this monumental change.​ Szécsényi-Nagy, A.,

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As anthropologists, we study what we care about, making research an intimate undertaking. Here, Dr. Mecca Howe and Ariana Gunderson discuss the effects of our food research on our personal relationships with food, while considering the role of our eating choices within the food system and our research for the communities we study.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 17, 2025

Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s12520-025-02188-5 A new study 1 , led by researchers from Jilin University and Texas A&M University, has confirmed that the striking color was caused by cinnabar, a mercury sulfide mineral with a long history of ritual and medicinal use. Read more

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

My online learning activities typically involve the use of short videos, online discussions, student research, podcasts, and various formative assessments. She is a veteran social studies teacher who has taught Sociology, US History, World History, Anthropology, and Psychology. They typically last between 3 and 4 days.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

1933-2024 Credit: Penny de los Santos Sally McLendon (1933-2024) Sally McLendon was an American scholar of Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in North America, with a special focus on the Indigenous languages and communities of Northern California.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But every now and then, a new discovery forces a rewrite of this narrative, reminding us that human history is more intricate than we once thought. Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025). One striking feature of the Jebel Faya assemblage is the presence of a laminar system," the researchers explain.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Human history is not just about where we came from but how we adapted to the ever-changing environments we encountered. By the 1990s, genetic research began to challenge the Multiregional hypothesis. However, genetic research presents a different picture. Related Research Fu, Q., The Multiregional Evolution hypothesis.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. As the antiquity of man became established in the mid-nineteenth century and anthropological inquiry began to focus on evolutionary questions, the need for better data became clear.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Despite these difficulties, researchers have identified several ancient sites that suggest early hominins were utilizing fire well before the appearance of modern Homo sapiens. The largest drop in the size of the chewing teeth in the history of human evolution occurred around 1.8 In Kenya, controlled fire dating back 6 1.6

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Within a few decades, they built an empire that stretched from the Eurasian steppe to the heart of Central Europe, reshaping political landscapes and leaving an imprint on European history. The researchers found no widespread East Asian ancestry among the European populations of the Carpathian Basin following the Huns' arrival.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Thankfully, we have records of past Afro-descendant entrepreneurs through both written and oral histories. As an anthropologist, I understand that reflection upon one’s positionality is an important part of the research and writing process. Turning one’s gaze south, the works of historian Michael L.

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