Anthropology.net

JANUARY 16, 2025

Anthropologist Dr. Martin Smith describes how these findings add depth to archaeological interpretations: “Rather than simply seeing a set of skeletons, hidden aspects of these people’s lives and identities come into view as mothers, husbands, and daughters.”

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

A new genetic and archaeological study 1 has revealed that leopard cats ( Prionailurus bengalensis ), small wild felines native to East Asia, lived alongside people in China’s early agrarian societies for at least 3,500 years—only to disappear from human settlements centuries before the arrival of domestic cats via the Silk Road.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Pandemic closures prompted hundreds of museums, art galleries and zoos around the world to launch virtual field trips in the last year. But a program offered through a museum in Utah sought to offer a different kind of virtual science field trip. Subscribe today! They see that this is a real place,” said Larson.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2024

© South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/Eurac/Samadelli/Staschitz. Reproduced by permission of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. Details of the Iceman's sixty-one carbon pigment tattoos (after Samadelli et al., 2015: fig.

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Sapiens

MARCH 5, 2024

When skeletal remains are found, there are often questions over their precise relationship to other archaeological remains at the same site—such as stone and bone tools, animal remains, and other finds. Using a method called proteomics, researchers determined this nondescript bone fragment from Ilsenhöhle Cave belonged to a human.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Hosek said, “In archaeology, there are vanishingly few instances in which we can tie a particular activity unequivocally to skeletal changes.” The researchers call for a more holistic approach to the study of early horse domestication, integrating genetic data and archaeological evidence from horse remains.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 15, 2024

Nestled near the tumultuous borders of present-day Ukraine and Russia lies Mykhailivka, a village with archaeological significance dating back millennia. Here, seventy years ago, Ukrainian researchers excavated pivotal insights into the enigmatic Yamnaya culture—a nomadic pastoralist society that emerged approximately 5,000 years ago.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

There is very little archaeological evidence of a highly developed Bronze Age civilization in the Baltic region during the time that would fit his story. Mosaic from the Bardo National Museum in Tunis. And Ithaca, the mythical home of Ulysses, is the tiny and otherwise rather unremarkable Danish island of Lyø.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

Two projects from Asia include the discovery of a Tang shipwreck, which takes you to an exhibit at the Singapore Museum , and a Story Map follows the early thirteenth-century travels of Yelu Chucai and Wugusun Zhongduan, who travel from north China to Central Asia after the Mongol empire's first conquests under Chinggis Khan.

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Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2025

It was employed to animate the Mesolithic period (from about 9,000 to 4,300 years ago) in a museum. TikTok users have adopted it to make realistic short videos about archaeology and history. But others are more specific to archaeology. The stakes of representation in archaeology are high.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Archaeologists from the Lolland-Falster Museum, in collaboration with Aarhus University, have analyzed the site and published their findings in Radiocarbon 1. Such findings highlight the significance of ongoing archaeological research in uncovering the complexities of early human societies. Image Credit: *Radiocarbon* (2024).

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Dr. Advait Jukar, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History noted, “Now we know for sure, at least in the Kashmir Valley, these hominins are eating elephants.” Conclusion The findings from the Pampore site underscore the complexity and richness of human history in South Asia. 1 Advait M.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 28, 2024

An artist’s impression of a Neanderthal family on display at the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia. Photograph: Nikola Solic/Reuters Discovery and Significance The fossil in question was excavated in 1989 at the Cova Negra archaeological site in Valencia, Spain.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 15, 2024

Field Museum scientist Luis Muro Ynoñán with the carving of a mythological bird creature in La Otra Banda, Cerro Las Animas. This finding promises to significantly enhance our understanding of ancient religious practices and social structures in the Andes.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Using the same fossil material, curators and paleoanthropologists commissioned this bust , “The Neanderthal Man of La Chapelle-aux-Saints,” for the American Museum of Natural History in 1915. Before the 20th century, only scattered bones of Neanderthals had been discovered.

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Army Heritage and Education Center (4 times) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee, the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and the Museum of History and Innovation in Seattle, Washington have made these colloquia special.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 11, 2024

Archaeologists from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence , in collaboration with partners from Serbian museums, have unearthed a remarkable discovery: a previously unknown Late Neolithic settlement nestled near the Tamiš River in Northeast Serbia. The deep black angular anomalies indicate a large number of burnt houses.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 27, 2024

Recently published in PLOS ONE 1 , research by scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology (LDA) of Saxony-Anhalt explores the rich tapestry of culinary traditions spanning from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Led by Patrick Schmidt and Ewa Dutkiewicz, an interdisciplinary team of scientists from New York University, the University of Tübingen, and the National Museums in Berlin embarked on a groundbreaking study, published in Science Advances. Their focus?

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Led by the Nagoya University Museum and Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Japan, a study has shed light on how early humans in the Middle East might have purposefully chosen specific rocks for their stone tools based on rock properties, not just ease of fragmentation. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology , 6 (1).

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 9, 2024

In what artistic, historical, archaeological, spatial, or cultural contexts do we see the deployment of narratives of violence, and what functions do such deployments serve? Also welcome are pedagogical approaches to studying these sensitive topics (both in the classroom and in public-facing spaces such as museums). Keywords: 1.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

IMPORTANT: The application deadline has been extended! **The The new deadline is February 23, 2024.** COST and SCHOLARSHIP FUNDING The program fee of $5,000 includes tuition, housing, some meals and the cost of trips to sites in and around Rome.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

year career in the field as an archaeological field technician in CRM and academic settings. And has all different kinds of implications for diversity and creating safe work environments within archaeology and then its implications, right, for how it is that we understand the past and how it is that heritage is managed.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In the realm of human evolution, a groundbreaking study 1 led by researchers at the Australian National University in Canberra and the Natural History Museum of London is poised to revolutionize our narrative of human ancestry.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Source: Natural History Museum, London Rajiv McCoy, a computational geneticist at Johns Hopkins University, remarks, "It’s probably the most comprehensive picture we have to date of Neanderthal gene flow into modern human populations." Neanderthal and Homo sapiens reconstruction.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Parker’s uncle by marriage was Mark Raymond Harrington, director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California. He hired Parker as a secretary and cook for the museum’s excavations of Pueblo Indian sites. Parker learned quickly on the job and was willing to go where other scientists feared.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Researchers from the Natural History Museum in London and Historic England analyzed 61 individuals, using 30 newly obtained radiocarbon dates to refine previous chronological estimates. British Museum Research Publication 163. Human remains are found in unusually high amounts in the Thames River. Parfitt, K., & Varndell, G.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Later in life, she was one of the first women to work in Mexican archaeology and the first person to study the pre-Columbian site of Chalcatzingo. Impressed with her work, the national museum hired her as the director of archaeology. Her life proves women can not only break into male-dominated fields but excel in them.

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Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

The VMP content spans the subfields of biological anthropology (evolutionary, primatology), and archaeology. In the introductory course in biological anthropology and archaeology, “92% of students agreed that the Virtual Mystery web-tool helped them understand what a professional anthropologist does; 88.3% Smithsonian Institute).

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

ENTERING THE FRAY I agreed to discuss archaeology with pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on the mega-popular but controversial podcast the Joe Rogan Experience. But reaching those outside my echo chamber demands more than my archaeological expertise. I’m distinguishing archaeology from mythology. Many people buy it.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

“I’m studying archaeology, specifically zooarchaeology,” I say. “Oh, Archaeology is the study of our human ancestors. Oh cool, what interests you in archaeology?” After class, I walk to a warehouse where the university keeps archaeological remains: boxes full of pottery sherds, dirt, animal bones, and stones.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In the early 2000s, we started to look again at supposed Altar Stone fragments in museum collections. But without directly sampling the Altar Stone, how could we be sure that the museum fragments were genuine? The suggestion stuck, and for 80 years, it went unchallenged.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The archaeological record tells us that more than 3 million years ago, human ancestors began breaking rocks into handy implements. For those animals that are no longer around, archaeology offers ways to reconstruct attention. WILD TOOL USE Tools aren’t part of our body, but they allow us to act on the world in new ways.

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