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Taking Cultural Preservation to a New Dimension

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A multidisciplinary team of researchers explains historical, cultural, and ethical issues they considered while developing a 3D scan of a South African site to be shared with the world online. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons.

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Children as Artists: A New Perspective on Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic. Related Studies These articles provide diverse perspectives on children’s roles in prehistoric art, integrating developmental psychology, cognitive science, and archaeology.

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Unraveling a “Ghost” Neanderthal Lineage

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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How and When Did Humans First Move Into the Pacific?

Sapiens

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

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. ✽

Humanities

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Was the “Odyssey” originally set in the Baltic?

Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

For Vinci, a nuclear engineer by training and an amateur historian by passion, the clues added up to a shocking revelation: Those Homeric stories, cornerstones of ancient Greek and modern Western culture, do not take place in and around Greece, in southern Europe, but rather near the Baltic Sea, in northern Europe.

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Call for Pitches: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

We invite submissions that probe the anthropological dimensions of AI: how it affects and is affected by human behavior, social norms, and cultural practices. Feature articles should be approximately 2,000 words. How is AI (re)shaping what it means to be human? And is humanity shaping AI?

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Undertanding the Middle Ages as Global

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.

Archaeology

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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

Please note that this article includes images of human remains. The artifacts found with them attest to cultural and technological changes, known as the Upper Paleolithic, that swept through the Mediterranean region and other parts of Eurasia around 40,000 years ago, just about the time Neanderthals disappeared.

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Ancient Iberian Slate Plaques: Early Genealogical Records?

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Journal : European Journal of Archaeology , 2004. Journal : Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 2009.

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Dog Domestication: A Tale of Alaskan Canids and Human Companionship

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

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Discovering Emotion in Ancient Mesopotamia From the flutter of "butterflies in the stomach" to the weight of a "heavy heart," emotions are often tied to physical sensations in modern cultures. Towards a Universal Understanding of Emotions This study opens new doors to understanding whether emotions are universal or culturally specific.

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AAA Virtual High School Internship Projects

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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David Cliff Grove

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

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Human Hunting and the Extinction of Megafauna: A 50,000-Year Review

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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Call for Pitches: Care

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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Study: The Indo-European language family was born south of the Caucasus

Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Using phylogenetic analysis — phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relationships over time, be they organisms or languages — they have reconstructed a vocabulary for PIE that gives us an idea of the culture of the people who spoke it. Were the Yamnaya the original Indo-Europeans? Strange Maps #1220 Got a strange map?

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Do You Want to Write for SAPIENS?

Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

So, if I was going to make, develop an op-ed around Native American history and culture I’ve written books, received grants and so on, I’m well prepared to make that argument. year career in the field as an archaeological field technician in CRM and academic settings. south west. Thank you Kristen’s.

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Call for Pitches: Migration

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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CFP: Treasure: Unearthing Value in Anthropology

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We seek to uncover the myriad ways in which treasures, both tangible and intangible, are perceived, created, sought after, and understood across different cultures and throughout time. Digital treasures: the preservation and significance of digital data as cultural artifacts or questions around privacy and personal information.

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Call for Pitches: Praxis

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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Columbus was neither the first nor the nicest. But his voyage was the most important

Strange Maps

JUNE 30, 2023

Various Native tribes enthusiastically adopted the horse, making it central to their culture. This article Columbus was neither the first nor the nicest. One of my favorite childhood books was The Discovery of America Before Columbus. In contrast, the llama can carry just 100 pounds (50 kg). Strange Maps #1212 Got a strange map?

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Mongolia’s “Forbidden Zone” is guarding an 800-year-old secret

Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

Perhaps this is because illness and death were great taboos in Mongol culture. 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.

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Why I Talked to Pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on Joe Rogan

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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10 years of the 'Detectorists'

Living Geography

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It was the focus of an article in today's Guardian newspaper. This book is very much a book by and for geographers, for those interested in place-making and cultural geography, such as the sub-culture of detectorists and their practice. It's ten years since the Detectorists was first shown - in early October 2014.

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Dismantling the “Man the Hunter” Myth

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.

Archaeology

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

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).

Anthropology

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Cultural Ecology and Julian Steward

Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE Cultural Ecology and Julian Steward: Table of Contents Cultural Ecology and Julian Steward: 1 Steward’s theory: 1 Arrival of Culture ecology. The cultural ecologists speak about an intimate relationship between culture and environment.

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The Aeroroutes of Stuttgart

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Author’s note: “Aeroroute” is a composite term I introduce in this article to capture the unique material character of what Stuttgart locals call Frischluftzufuhr, Frischluftschneise, Kaltluftschneise, or Luftleitbahnen, all of which refer to a passage through which fresh and cool airs flow.

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Call for Pitches: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Ancient Iberian Slate Plaques: Early Genealogical Records?

Dog Domestication: A Tale of Alaskan Canids and Human Companionship

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

AAA Virtual High School Internship Projects

David Cliff Grove

Human Hunting and the Extinction of Megafauna: A 50,000-Year Review

Call for Pitches: Care

Study: The Indo-European language family was born south of the Caucasus

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