Strange Maps

JANUARY 17, 2025

When he processed the survey’s data, conducted by plane, with an archaeological rather than an environmental perspective, Auld-Thomas noticed manmade structures beneath the treetops. Their findings are detailed in an article published by Antiquity on October 29, 2024. Credit : Auld-Thomas e.a.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The BBC Future article looks at the archaeology being revealed by melting glaciers. However, as global warming and record hot summers have sped up glacier loss, the melting ice has exposed an unprecedented, huge range of archaeological finds, Reitmaier says sometimes baring thousands of years of history, all at once.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ Archaeological excavations at Mandrin Cave revealed the remains of both Neanderthals and modern humans. Fittingly, the Thorin of the Mandrin Cave is believed to be one of the last Neanderthals.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 3, 2024

There could be one sitting in your chair right now, reading this article. ” This chimes with previous archaeological finds. Strange Maps 1257 Read the entire article in full: Reconstructing contact and a potential interbreeding geographical zone between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans. Well, sort of.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Several articles and blogs were written about the performance, and a roundup of recent press can be found below. To read the articles, click the links beneath each title. Fjord Review "Greek Myth or Graham Myth?"

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. THESE DAYS, IF YOU want to visit remarkable archaeological sites, such as Great Zimbabwe or Petra in Jordan , you don’t even need to leave your house. This inadvertently strips sites of the very culture they aim to preserve.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This call aims to generate a wide conversation and is open to practitioners wanting to share their approach with teachers, reflections on personal experiences in the class room, as well as full-length academic articles. We welcome short reflective articles, creative formats and staff/student collaborative pieces.

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Sapiens

MARCH 5, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ When skeletal remains are found, there are often questions over their precise relationship to other archaeological remains at the same site—such as stone and bone tools, animal remains, and other finds.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 5, 2025

Now in its second century, AA is the most widely circulated anthropology journal from the American Anthropological Association and publishes articles, reviews, and commentaries from across anthropological perspectives. We are currently accepting letters of interest from potential candidates, due April 21, 2025.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

Another project looks at the connection between East Africa, Asia, and Mediterranean Europe and includes an interview with Chapurukha Kusimba, an Archaeology Journal Article on Early Swahili Towns and a 3D Reconstruction of the Songo Mnara site, which is a UNESCO site.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

There is very little archaeological evidence of a highly developed Bronze Age civilization in the Baltic region during the time that would fit his story. This article Was the “Odyssey” originally set in the Baltic? And Ithaca, the mythical home of Ulysses, is the tiny and otherwise rather unremarkable Danish island of Lyø.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 6, 2024

Their findings are presented in a review article published in the journal Cambridge Prisms: Extinction , which synthesizes and analyzes over 300 scientific articles across various research fields. Human Hunting: Evidence and Impact Archaeological evidence shows that early modern humans were effective hunters of large animals.

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Humanities Archaeology History Cultures 98

Strange Maps

JULY 11, 2024

The model works so well that it can be used to predict the location of archaeological sites, not just in Australia, but anywhere it is used. Identifying potential archaeological sites Instead of statistically optimal “superhighways” or coastal routes, their model proposes other major pathways for humans spreading into Australia.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

Please note that this article includes images of human remains. Tens of thousands of stone tools from Ksâr ‘Akil had been sitting for decades, mostly unstudied, in wooden boxes in Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 22, 2025

While that may not seem much, such an average over a wide area and for a sustained period equates to widespread cognitive decline, notes the article in PNAS. This article Airborne lead pollution may have cost ancient Romans 3 IQ points is featured on Big Think. Strange Maps #1266 Got a strange map?

History 73

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

How might AI-enabled tools aid (or challenge) the ways anthropologists and/or the general public investigate and understand the past, e.g., archaeological site discovery, analysis of ancient DNA or skeletal remains, reconstructing past events, or artifact preservation? Feature articles should be approximately 2,000 words.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Feature articles should be around 2,000 words, photo essays should consist of six to eight high-resolution images with a 750-word introductory essay, and audiovisual work can be developed in consultation with AN editors.

Anthropology 83

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Sapiens

JANUARY 18, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. In 2021 and 2022, I conducted an archaeological walkover and photographic survey of the marshes. An archaeologist traces how rubble from World War II bombings helped turn London marshlands into a footballing utopia.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

His career trajectory focused on the archaeology of complex societies in central Mexico c. His many retrospective examinations and reflections on the state of Mesoamerican archaeology marked him as a leading synthesizer, and he was often called upon to provide commentaries and updates on Formative central Mexico.

Archaeology 52

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Feature articles should be around 2,000 words, photo essays should consist of six to eight high-resolution images with a 750-word introductory essay, and audiovisual work can be developed in consultation with AN editors.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

year career in the field as an archaeological field technician in CRM and academic settings. And has all different kinds of implications for diversity and creating safe work environments within archaeology and then its implications, right, for how it is that we understand the past and how it is that heritage is managed.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 19, 2024

Kaddee attended the College of Wooster in Ohio and spent her junior year at the study abroad program, College Year in Athens, where she would get firsthand experience in the classics and archaeology. In the summer of 1969, she rejoined the Franchthi Cave project and did a stint in Turkey at the archaeological site of Gordion.

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Anthropology News

JULY 16, 2024

This summer, tthe AAA hosted three interns through the Virtual High School Internship , and throughout the summer, the interns engaged in a variety of enriching activities: Research Projects: They read scholarly research articles, took them apart to see how they were constructed, and communicated their methods and findings to diverse audiences.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

This is a huge step forward from the mutually exclusive, previous scenarios, towards a more plausible model that integrates archaeological, anthropological, and genetic findings.” This article Study: The Indo-European language family was born south of the Caucasus is featured on Big Think. Strange Maps #1220 Got a strange map?

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Feature articles should be around 2,000 words, photo essays should consist of six to eight high-resolution images with a 750-word introductory essay, and audiovisual work can be developed in consultation with AN editors.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 6, 2024

Feature articles should be around 2,000 words, photo essays should consist of six to eight high-resolution images with a 750-word introductory essay, and audiovisual work can be developed in consultation with AN editors.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 30, 2023

This article Columbus was neither the first nor the nicest. One of my favorite childhood books was The Discovery of America Before Columbus. And besides, who would want to go back to a time before horses in America, strawberries in Europe, cassava in Africa, or pineapples in Hawaii? Strange Maps #1212 Got a strange map?

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Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

Drawn in by the enduring mystery of the Khan’s missing grave, foreign archaeological expeditions started exploring the area. This article Mongolia’s “Forbidden Zone” is guarding an 800-year-old secret is featured on Big Think. Credit : Ganzorig Gavaa, CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Strange Maps #1211 Got a strange map?

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Feature articles should be around 2,000 words. For graphic storytelling submissions, provide examples of your work. For multimedia pieces, include a brief clip or audio sample. First drafts will be due by April 17 and will be refined in collaboration with AN’s editorial team. Graphic storytelling pieces can extend up to six online pages.

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Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2025

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. AI imagery has already been used to illustrate popular articles, such as covering scientific discoveries about Neanderthals. TikTok users have adopted it to make realistic short videos about archaeology and history.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

ENTERING THE FRAY I agreed to discuss archaeology with pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on the mega-popular but controversial podcast the Joe Rogan Experience. But reaching those outside my echo chamber demands more than my archaeological expertise. I’m distinguishing archaeology from mythology. Many people buy it.

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

Through this work, drawing on knowledge from human skeletal biology, anatomy, and archaeology, we often confront the immense social and racial inequalities that can play a role in the circumstances of ones death.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ After two decades of research, scholars find that Stonehenge’s giant Altar Stone came from northeast Scotland. No one is certain why Stonehenge was built.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It was the focus of an article in today's Guardian newspaper. It's ten years since the Detectorists was first shown - in early October 2014. Something special" indeed. Here's a reminder of the review I wrote of Jo Norcup and Innes Keighren's rather wonderful book. Alright geography degree, where should we be searching?"

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2024

Two biological anthropologists analyze archaeological and physiological evidence to debunk enduring assumptions about the gendered division of labor in ancient times. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished with Creative Commons. ✽ I also excavate at their archaeological sites.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

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).

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

His environmental perspective on culture was unusual, as was his synthesis of comparative, secondary data from archaeological and ethnographic research. During a 20-year period, between the mid-1930s and the mid-1950s, Steward wrote and published the series of articles that he later included in the collection titled Theory of Culture Change.

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