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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 17, 2025

We are looking for stories about how communities, cultures, and individuals distinguish meaningful patterns from background noise, interpret disruptions, and find (dis)connection amid interference. What counts as signal versus noise, and who gets to decide?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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. ADVOCATING FOR THE DEADAND THE LIVING Advocacy and activism are nothing new to anthropology.

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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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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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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

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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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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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This year, AAA journals published more than 600 articles, garnering almost 2 million views! Below is a list of the most-read article from each journal in 2024, but be sure to visit each journal’s homepage on AnthroSource to see all of the incredible pieces they’ve published over the past year!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. Ortiz, directs the MA in Engaged and Public Humanities Program at Georgetown University, where hes a professor of Latinx literatures and cultures. There is a linguistic limit, though; the journal only runs articles in English. and elsewhere. and elsewhere.

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