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Rethinking Inequality: What 50,000 Ancient Homes Tell Us About Power, Wealth, and Human Choices

Anthropology.net

A sweeping archaeological analysis 1 led by Gary Feinman of the Field Museum of Natural History offers a strikingly different view. In fact, some large and politically complex societies maintained surprisingly modest levels of economic disparity. ” In this way, archaeology provides a counter-narrative to modern fatalism.

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Notes from the 2015 Iowa STEM Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

Exploring Iowa Archaeology ). STEM in Iowa’s Re-Envisioned Economic Development Roadmap (2014 Battelle Report) , Kathryn Kunert & Carrie Rankin. STEM, Teacher Leadership, MTSS) together in better ways? Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Kim Reynolds & Mary Andringa.

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The Aeroroutes of Stuttgart

Anthropology News

In 1976 , at the end of his leadership, a short film about the application of urban climatology to urban planning—showing Schwalb in a brown suit describing the arrows of aeroroutes on the city map—was screened at the first UN-Habitat conference in Vancouver. Such an existential question begets even more fundamental questions for humanity.