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

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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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Anthropology has long since engaged with challenging topics, and indeed carries its own challenging histories, and researchers continue to generate key insights into the lived realities of trauma survivors. We welcome short reflective articles, creative formats and staff/student collaborative pieces.

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 22, 2025

According to the researchers, this is historys first large-scale pollution event from industrial activities, and it happened a millennium and a half before the Industrial Revolution. 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.

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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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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. The pursuit of objectivity in scientific endeavors is the norm.

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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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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 News

JANUARY 29, 2024

How can we understand AI in the broader history of humans and technology? 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?

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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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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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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations? 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

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.

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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. No actual expertise in that area. south west.

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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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Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

Credit : Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) This is by design. On one of those hunting trips, The Secret History of the Mongols tells the story of Genghis Khan resting under a tree, exclaiming: “What a beautiful view. The mountain was of great spiritual importance in his formative years, and thereafter.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 30, 2023

The book combined the heft of history with the thrill of science fiction, launching a bunch of counterfactuals at the supposedly solid sandcastle that is the world as we know it. This article Columbus was neither the first nor the nicest. One of my favorite childhood books was The Discovery of America Before Columbus.

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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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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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Teaching American History

MAY 28, 2024

Naturalist John Muir, whose popular magazine articles had done much to bring about the 1890 Congressional act creating Yosemite National Park , was unanimously named president of the new organization. Johnson began urging Muir to write a series of articles for the Century that would persuade Congress to designate the area as a national park.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Archaeology can offer answers—and potential solutions. As archaeologists, historical ecologists, and paleoecologists, we study the long-term history of human and nonhuman animal relationships. EXAMINING THE COMPLICATED HISTORY OF MOOSE MIGRATIONS Moose have certainly seen their fair share of ecological change.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 25, 2025

Created in 1986 in the Centre Louis Gernet, as the result of a collaboration between French and Greek Hellenists (University of Ioannina) and later on with Romanists, Mtis proposes every year to the scientific community a selection of articles analyzing Greek and Roman society from an anthropological and historical perspective.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. There is a linguistic limit, though; the journal only runs articles in English. and elsewhere.

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