Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

We engaged in a collaborative project based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) designed to explore how AI tools might support undergraduate learning in anthropology. Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 24, 2024

Many students thought they were dodging science by taking a social sciences course. Primatology is one of our early course topics, following directly after an introduction to culture. This lets me lead students into the topic by way of discussing culture in non-human primates.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need. Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement. Don’t Veer Off Course.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It also includes our relationships to our past (archaeology), our biology, our evolutionary history, and other beings (e.g., Dr. Sherwood Washburn argues that by studying the behavior of primates, anthropologists can gain insights into the evolution of human behavior, social structure, and culture.

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