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In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was Matrilineal

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A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published in January. was matrilineal and matriarchal based on her analysis of the archaeology, including the high number of female figurines. Yet we do find some mention of female leadership in classical texts. until about 5000 B.C.)

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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. “The idea that big populations or new technologies automatically lead to widening inequality simply doesn’t hold up in the archaeological record.” But what if that assumption is wrong?

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David Cliff Grove

Anthropology News

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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Notes from the 2015 Iowa STEM Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

Exploring Iowa Archaeology ). STEM, Teacher Leadership, MTSS) together in better ways? JF – teacher leadership program – we’re doing PBL training for all teachers – I assumed they already knew and were doing it, had to start over and go slower. Kim Reynolds & Mary Andringa.

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Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Studies Weekly

During the Apollo program he held several important management and leadership positions, including the lead Retrofire Officer on the Apollo 13 mission. Parker wasn’t satisfied with what she considered “women’s work,” so Harrington taught her archaeological methods in the field.

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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.

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On the Tracks to Translating Indigenous Knowledge

Sapiens

For knowledge of the area’s history, O utsider researchers naturally draw on ethnographic, historic, and archaeological data—but their knowledge of the details is patchy. This increased tensions with Outsiders. Typically, they rely on King George III’s Royal Proclamation of 1763 as evidence of British occupation.

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