Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new genomic study, published in Frontiers in Psychology 1 , approaches the problem differently. Genomic Clues: Tracing Language Through Population Splits Unlike previous studies that relied on archaeology or comparative anatomy, this research examines how human populations began to branch off from one another.

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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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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Parker wasn’t satisfied with what she considered “women’s work,” so Harrington taught her archaeological methods in the field. Addressing the psychological and spiritual aspects of healing was important as well. He hired Parker as a secretary and cook for the museum’s excavations of Pueblo Indian sites.

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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. Evolutionary psychology (EP): a perspective focused on understanding the evolution of psychological mechanisms resulting in human behavior.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2024

Two biological anthropologists analyze archaeological and physiological evidence to debunk enduring assumptions about the gendered division of labor in ancient times. But this is a just-so story without sufficient evidentiary support, despite its pervasiveness in disciplines like evolutionary psychology.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 5, 2025

Note that the support column has been removed from the glass core shown in the bottom panel A new study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 suggests it was anything but random. Because in Palaeolithic archaeology, stone tools are among the best proxies for understanding cognition. Wadley, L., & Parsons, I.

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