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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

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DECOLONIZING SPAIN’S MUSEUMS In my work as a curator of archaeological assemblages at the British Museum and as a bio-archaeology researcher at the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom, I have observed how nations and cultural institutions grapple with their colonial legacies.

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In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was Matrilineal

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A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published in January. was matrilineal and matriarchal based on her analysis of the archaeology, including the high number of female figurines. Read more from the archives: When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows.

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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

Anthropology for Beginners

Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. Archaeology, then, is both a physical activity out in the field, and an intellectual pursuit in the study or laboratory. Here the methods of archaeology and ethnography overlap. How were those pots used?

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The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

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In a new study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1 , researchers from institutions across Europe compiled the most comprehensive cross-cultural knot database to date. By analyzing 338 distinct knots from archaeological archives and museum collections, they discovered a surprisingly stable repertoire. Eronen, J.

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Mapping Ancient Emotions: How Mesopotamians Felt and Expressed Their Feelings in the Body

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Kipfer Journal : ZORA: Zurich Open Repository and Archive , 2017. Wagner-Durand Journal : Homo Pictor: Image Studies and Archaeology in Dialogue , 2020. Steinert Book : Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East , 2022. Link : Taylor & Francis Chapter PDF Visualizing Emotions in the Ancient Near East Author : S.

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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

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In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Here the evidence from the archives is murky, but it appears that only Egbert’s skull and the teeth of Ksâr ‘Akil 4 were successfully extracted. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

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Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai to imagine and develop the research design for the archaeological investigation of UCI’s campus at some time in the future (perhaps an excavation to be conducted by non-human intelligence). Building such a repository was overly ambitious.