Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I call this a “confession” because “ (bio)archaeologists ” like me—scholars who identify with archaeology, biological anthropology, or both—are not necessarily known for centering social theories like Intersectionality in our subdisciplines. Bio)archaeology is no stranger to its colonial baggage. Intersectional Anthropology.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Recent archaeological findings suggest that the Bronze Age board game, Hounds and Jackals—also known as Fifty-Eight Holes—may have originated not in Egypt, as previously believed, but in Asia. 2024 A Global History of Ancient Games Board games have been part of human culture for millennia. Crist et al.,

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 24, 2024

This lets me lead students into the topic by way of discussing culture in non-human primates. Gorillas in the class While the exercise could be adapted to any non-human primate species, I chose gorillas. Primatology is one of our early course topics, following directly after an introduction to culture.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Teaching with Simulations Why should you consider teaching with simulations? Simulations can also present information in a new way that can be more exciting and engaging than traditional teaching methods. Early Humans Simulation Students will learn what it took to survive during prehistoric times with this Survival Simulation!

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music.

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Sapiens

APRIL 8, 2025

They also examine what verbal and embodied art forms such as reading, throwing shade, commentation, and walking a category teach us about diasporic memory, decolonial critique, and trans survival. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s a brighter world in which students subscribe to rather than enroll in college, learn languages in virtual reality foreign streetscapes with avatars for conversation partners, have their questions answered day or night by AI teaching assistants and control their own digital transcripts that record every life achievement.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 7, 2025

We invite proposals for individual papers, panels, and workshops/roundtables on any aspect of the Greco-Roman world, including but not limited to poetry (from epic, lyric, and pastoral to elegy, satire, and the epigram), drama, history, philosophy, archaeology, religion, and social life (from family and gender roles to slavery and prostitution).

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. How do we care for ourselves and others?

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Anthropology News

JULY 16, 2024

She sees anthropology as a means to explore the essence of humanity and appreciate the diversity of human experiences. She is interested in anthropology because it is a holistic study of human experience that combines several academic disciplines.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Does deception form an integral part of human behavior across societies? Who are the architects of alternate realities, and who do they seek to convince? Do deceptions work on us or shape us in unexpected ways? Are there structures and systems in place that aid or deter these practices?

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Many dedicated, brilliant, and diverse trailblazers have illuminated our path and brought their findings to the forefront of humanity. Parker wasn’t satisfied with what she considered “women’s work,” so Harrington taught her archaeological methods in the field.

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Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2025

TikTok users have adopted it to make realistic short videos about archaeology and history. These include its environmental impact and the violation of intellectual property (using training data created by humans). But others are more specific to archaeology. But others are more specific to archaeology.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Instead they were expected to learn from the teachings of the Greek physician Galen (and others) who lived between 129 and 216AD. For 1000 years after Galen’s death almost no original anatomical inquiries were performed, mainly because the Church was against the dissection of human bodies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Does someone teach them to start conversations like this? the man asks. “I’m studying archaeology, specifically zooarchaeology,” I say. “Oh, Archaeology is the study of our human ancestors. Oh cool, what interests you in archaeology?” Mind if we chat for a bit?” the woman asks me. Out loud, I play along.

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

For two years, they have been meeting over Zoom as part of a seven-member Teaching Circle. The mission of the Teaching Circle, envisioned by Lac Seul First Nation co-author George Kenny, is to articulate a worldview held by Indigenous cultural Insiders. The Teaching Circle is cast wide. This increased tensions with Outsiders.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

Different religious orders with charitable missions in nursing, teaching, and the care of the poor received grants or capitation payments to run industrial schools for poor, orphaned, or otherwise disadvantaged children; homes for unmarried mothers and their unborn or young children, who were socially stigmatized; and orphanages.

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Teaching American History

MAY 28, 2024

Under his leadership, the Sierra Club helped persuade Congress to pass the 1905 American Antiquities Act, which allowed presidents to designate national “monuments” that preserved natural areas as landmarks of scientific, historic, and archaeological interest. These only distanced humanity from nature’s soul-healing influences.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Cave art has long been a touchstone for understanding the cognitive and cultural worlds of ancient humans. This revelation challenges assumptions about early art and its association with modern humans, re-framing the story of creativity in the deep past. Panel GS I and sample locations for MAL6 and MAL7.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 31, 2025

We are also happy to accept submissions regarding pedagogical methods in teaching Latin, Greek and other classical subjects. students aspiring to apply to a PhD program.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. Published by Cambridge University Press, Public Humanities is pitched as a very large tent. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.

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