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How and When Did Humans First Move Into the Pacific?

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New archaeological research reveals insights into the first-known seafarers to brave ocean crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands more than 50,000 years ago. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ Then the hardened resin was snapped into shape.

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Ancient Iberian Slate Plaques: Early Genealogical Records?

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Found in tombs scattered across the region, these delicately carved, hand-sized artifacts bear geometric designs whose purpose has sparked debate for centuries. 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.

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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

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Please note that this article includes images of human remains. Their remains and the artifacts found with them shed light on this major turning point in human evolution. They dug a trench as deep as two city busses stacked end-to-end that yielded millions of artifacts and food remains. It’s unclear if they ever arrived.

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Taking Cultural Preservation to a New Dimension

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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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Call for Pitches: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Anthropology News

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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David Cliff Grove

Anthropology News

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.

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Do You Want to Write for SAPIENS?

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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.