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15 Women from World History Who Made a Difference

Studies Weekly

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. In 1966, she won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai to imagine and develop the research design for the archaeological investigation of UCI’s campus at some time in the future (perhaps an excavation to be conducted by non-human intelligence). To that end, the class activity had three main components.