Anthropology.net
JANUARY 16, 2025
What we’ve found, however, suggests a sophisticated society where maternal ancestry shaped group identity.” As Alison Sheridan from National Museums Scotland notes: “This is a remarkable example of how archaeology and genetics together can illuminate the lives of ancient people.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Willman / University of Coimbra) The research, published in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 1 , was conducted by John Willman, a biological anthropologist at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. An example of enamel wear on the side of Ice Age teeth from Dolní Vestonice, Czech Republic (Image credit: John C. Read more
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition. Sitting around a fire would have been a time for storytelling, teaching, and reinforcing group identity.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Possible Motivations for Collecting The purpose behind these collections remains speculative, but researchers have proposed several possibilities, including aesthetic appreciation, symbolic representation, and social functions such as gift-giving or reinforcing group identity. Navazo Ruiz et al.,
Anthropology for Beginners
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Archaeologists surmise that many early tools were also made of wood and bone, but these do not survive in the archaeological record. Those boundaries are crucial to group identity, and they may be cast in terms of what is considered appropriate self-adornment, or how to communicate properly – that is to say, the “boundary work” of culture.
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