Living Geography

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Some years ago, I wrote a book about tzi the Ice Man. The BBC Future article looks at the archaeology being revealed by melting glaciers. Thanks to Brendan Conway for sending me a link to a BBC Future page. I've since posted regular blogs when a story appears which updates the knowledge that we have about him.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 12, 2025

This may be the earliest archaeological hint of social learning in technological contexts. Rethinking the Hominin Mind What emerges from the Medzhibozh fragments is not just a new archaeological data point—it’s a narrative shift. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(6), 1566–1580. This isn't a one-off anomaly.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Late Pleistocene Human Evolution in East Asia: Behavioral Perspectives Provides a behavioral perspective on hominin evolution, highlighting key fossil and archaeological findings in East Asia. Source: Book by R.J. Source: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2018. Source: Current Anthropology, 2017. Source: PNAS, 2012.

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Society for Classical Studies

APRIL 4, 2025

Our panel of editors will discuss both book and journal publishing for classics and archaeology scholars, covering what you should consider in choosing a publisher, how best to prepare your materials for submission, and how long the process generally takes. FGLIForm Image Credits FGLIF logo

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

History books teach us that civilization arose with the Neolithic Revolution when hunter-gatherers first settled down because of the discovery of agriculture. Did civilization arise before religion or did religion arise before civilization? Settled life then led to cities, writing, and religion.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

While the answer remains elusive, a combination of archaeological and biological evidence provides clues, suggesting cooking may have begun as early as 2 million years ago. Archaeological Evidence: Fire Control and Cooking Sites The archaeological search for the origins of cooking hinges on evidence of fire control. Karkanas, P.,

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 23, 2024

One such revelation, echoing from the annals of time, is the groundbreaking book, “ The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved, ” written by British archaeologist Steven Mithen. The archaeological record offers tantalizing glimpses into the dawn of linguistic expression.

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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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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This is why evidence for diet was a big part of my archaeology flipped class activity , for example. This resource series includes an Introduction to the Flipped Classroom Method , an ice breaker activity , a primatology activity , a virtual archaeology activity , and a globalization/sustainability activity. References Han, D. (27

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Sapiens

JANUARY 18, 2024

In 2021 and 2022, I conducted an archaeological walkover and photographic survey of the marshes. His 2016 book, Grass Roots , documents a full season of these amateur Sunday league games in what Di Principe has said is “a contemporary testament and celebration of what makes London a multicultural city.”

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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.net

MAY 22, 2024

Lessons from the Past: The Resilience of Ancient Agricultural Practices In numerous archaeological discoveries worldwide, evidence reveals how past civilizations coped with unforeseen climate changes and the sustainability challenges of their farming practices.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Exploring Iowa Archaeology ). A book for everyone who made it to the end of the day, courtesy of DMACC. [As Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Kim Reynolds & Mary Andringa. STEM should be a catalyst for active learning. Launching a STEM Council Seal of Approval for programs (e.g.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Parker wasn’t satisfied with what she considered “women’s work,” so Harrington taught her archaeological methods in the field. ” She wrote a book on her experiences, titled, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear which discusses this desire to combine Navajo healing philosophies with western medicine.

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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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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. Celebrity author Hancock has made a fortune writing sensationalized books that claim a “lost” ice age civilization once existed—without any direct evidence for this society.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Constable shared that in her book, Passport Entanglements , binaries related to passports allowed her to rethink other binaries such as ethnographer/research subject, state/society, care/control, and fake/real, as part of an epistemological approach that intertwines them. In a related piece, Diane L.

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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. Extraordinary claims, extraordinary proof Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and Vinci produces some compelling pieces of evidence.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In his book The Birth of the Clinic Michel Foucault suggested that there was a “great break in Western medicine” in the 18th century when for the first time anatomy began to play a central role in medical education. 2003) The birth of the clinic : an archaeology of medical perception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Foucault, M.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

“I’m studying archaeology, specifically zooarchaeology,” I say. “Oh, Archaeology is the study of our human ancestors. Oh cool, what interests you in archaeology?” I already knew they were missionaries by the way they walked together, books in hand, no backpacks. Oh, I love dinosaurs!” the man responds. the woman asks.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

We also do poetry and book excerpts. 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.

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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. Steward’s theory: Steward created a theoretical perspective that was distinctive in mid-20th-century anthropology. Jon McGee and Richard L.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Here's a reminder of the review I wrote of Jo Norcup and Innes Keighren's rather wonderful book. I've been waiting for this book for some time, and it's lovely to finally hold it in my hand and flick through its contents before diving in. It was the focus of an article in today's Guardian newspaper. Something special" indeed.

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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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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The image “Man in the Great Bear and Mammoth Epoch,” which appeared in Louis Figuier’s 1870 book Primitive Man , depicts Neanderthals as modern aside from their stone tools and furs. Later that year, an illustrated nonfiction book for the public brought the Neanderthal flower people to life.

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Life and Landscapes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I guess it depends on your version of religion and the books that you are reading. Quite an adventure in the world of archaeological mathematics! .” Then read Ezekiel 1:4-28 in the Old Testament, and see if you don’t think something else is hiding in what was written. A secret code? I don’t know.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 30, 2023

One of my favorite childhood books was The Discovery of America Before Columbus. 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. I reread it until its pages came unstuck.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

Genghis Khan on his deathbed, as pictured in a 15th-century French edition of Marco Polo’s “Travels”, titled “Livre des merveilles du monde” (“Book of the Wonders of the World”). Communism in Mongolia ended in the late 1980s, as did most of the limits on entry into the Highly Restricted Area.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This approach offered direct evidence of Clovis dietary habits, bypassing previous reliance on faunal assemblages and assumptions drawn from archaeological contexts. This reliance aligns closely with the hunting strategies inferred from Clovis archaeological sites, where mammoth remains often dominate faunal assemblages.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the China National Silk Museum and the Sichuan Research Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology have confirmed that silk played a significant role in sacrificial rituals conducted by the Shu State during the late Shang Dynasty (1600–1100 BCE). Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Ge, J., & Hu, Y.

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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. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook.

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