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APRIL 1, 2025

candidate in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. A cover of Unifruitco Magazine , a publication of the United Fruit Company, promoted the companys restoration project at Zaculeu.

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JUNE 12, 2023

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? Curious about human evolution? Discover what anthropology is all about by popping along to the British Musuem for London Anthropology Day. You’ll gain hands-on experience of what it is like to study anthropology.

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APRIL 3, 2025

The end of the last Ice Age, spanning approximately 14,000 to 11,600 years ago, was a period of significant climatic fluctuations that profoundly influenced human populations in Europe. Humans during the Final Paleolithic apparently responded by migrating to more favorable areas."​ DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310942

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights, met with stakeholders in the Philippines to report on the status of the country regarding environmental and human rights protection. Read the introduction to the collection here. In November 2023 , Ian Fry , the first U.N.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 25, 2025

The results challenge long-held assumptions about how early humans controlled tool shape and suggest that the differences in Levallois core designs may be more influenced by cultural traditions than previously thought​ Why Levallois Technology Matters Levallois technology represents a milestone in human cognitive and technological evolution.

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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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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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APRIL 14, 2025

” That insight—often stated in anthropological circles—is easy to romanticize but hard to quantify. They evaluated 163 cultural concepts previously suggested in the anthropological and linguistic literature, ranging from “snow” to “love,” “horses,” “ghosts,” and “taste.”

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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.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Discovery in the Desert The story of human migration is often told in sweeping arcs—great waves of Homo sapiens leaving Africa, moving into Eurasia, and eventually populating the entire planet. Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025). Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025).

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. The post Bits and Bytes Dont Leave Bones appeared first on Anthropology News. Digital migration, like any form of migration, is not neutral.

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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. Studying human bodies provides a deep historical perspective on social dynamics whose echoes remain with us today.

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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. Thousands of specimens of human ancestors (mostly fragmentary) are now kept in research collections.

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MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. Three challenges in teaching anthropology. Teaching Anthropology 1 (2), pp.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

While we can't definitively say that these early humans crafted stone tools, our findings demonstrate that their hands were frequently used in ways that closely align with the actions necessary for human tool manipulation," explained Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen. afarensis , A.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Genetic Mystery Unraveled For years, scientists have tried to piece together the evolutionary puzzle of human language. What genetic shifts allowed humans to develop the intricate vocal control necessary for language? Research suggests that mutations in the human NOVA1 gene may have played a role in the development of language.

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AUGUST 18, 2024

Anthropology has long been celebrated as a discipline that offers profound insights into human cultures, societies, and behaviors. Its holistic approach and emphasis on reflexivity have contributed significantly to our understanding of the human experience.

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MARCH 1, 2025

The implications of these findings stretch beyond linguistics, touching on anthropology, cognitive science, and the ways we think about early childhood development. As the authors emphasize, future research should look beyond Western contexts to build a truly global understanding of how humans acquire language. 1 Omane, P.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The courses covered many domains—design, medicine, the environment—but most featured an anthropological flair, and most of the organizers had an anthropology background. I titled my course—one of the four core courses—“Tears of the Earth: An Anthropological Thinking Experiment.”

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. Below, we present case studies from three anthropology courses using three different sets of AI tools.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To his point, I find the current slew of handwashing videos on YouTube and other sites to be excellent resources for anthropology class projects, and utilize several in an activity that nurtures introductory students’ skills in critical thinking and observation. Human hygiene is taken as an example.

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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. Their findings reveal an intriguing story of cultural integration despite distinct genetic divides. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2009.00348.x

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old.

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APRIL 2, 2025

During the African Humid Period (14,500–5,000 years ago), this region supported thriving human populations. Their findings, recently published in Nature , challenge existing models of early human migration and isolation in North Africa. Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ For a digital anthropology seminar at the University of Denver, I asked my students: “Why do the pressures of our lived realities demand a response through poetry?”

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

This suggests that children may have recognized and elaborated upon the figurative potential of their own creations, blending play and representation in a uniquely human way. Journal : Evolutionary Human Sciences , 2020. Book Chapter : Art and Human Development , 2013. DOI : 10.1017/ehs.2020.37

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

For decades, archaeologists have described the architectural evolution of early human settlements as a transition from circular to rectangular structures—a shift thought to reflect deeper societal changes. Current Anthropology , 52(5), 619-660. But a new study led by Hadas Goldgeier, Dr. Antoine Muller, and Prof.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2022

DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. Law, science and technological advancements lead to highly decentralized human endeavours. This is the largest experiment in decentralisation of governance in the history of humanity.

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Sapiens

APRIL 8, 2025

Dozandris research has been supported by a Society for Visual Anthropology/Lemelson Foundation Fellowship, the Duberman-Zal Fellowship from the Center for LGBTQ+ Studies, and grants from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB. The executive producers are Dennis Funk and Chip Colwell. Christine Weeber is the copy editor.

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Sapiens

MARCH 25, 2025

For the eighth season of the SAPIENS podcast, were meeting at a crossroads of culturespast and presentin search of humanitys collective destination. Through the lens of anthropology, we will examine what happens when human cultures meet, merge, and clashand what these encounters reveal about humanitys shared fate.

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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. It contained more than 40 human graves and preserved layers of human artifacts, such as stone tools, going back 12,000 years.”

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. How were those pots used?

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

My point is to communicate that there are many languages and, therefore, an incredible diversity of ways humans think, reason, and feel. This online database is free, thanks to the department of cultural and linguistic evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. Perhaps the best known is Glottolog.

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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.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

The genetic legacy of Neanderthals persists in modern humans, with 1-2% of non-African genomes composed of Neanderthal DNA—a determination made through comprehensive sequencing and comparison of ancient and modern genomes. “These beneficial traits spread rapidly in early human populations.”

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

A Glimpse into Europe’s Earliest Settlers Over 45,000 years ago, small groups of modern humans roamed the icy expanse of Ice Age Europe. Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Stacey is Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University, specialising in the analysis of archaeological human remains. Follow Stacey on X (Twitter): @wardstaceym The post Stacey Ward first appeared on Teaching Anthropology. She was recently appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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