Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada My Introduction to Anthropology course concludes with a unit on sustainability, which covers topics like globalisation, food security, and diet. This mattered to me as I teach at a Canadian institution. References Han, D. (27

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds. Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally. Orchard at its core.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Stacey is Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University, specialising in the analysis of archaeological human remains. Follow Stacey on X (Twitter): @wardstaceym The post Stacey Ward first appeared on Teaching Anthropology. She was recently appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Stacey is Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University, specialising in the analysis of archaeological human remains. Follow Stacey on X (Twitter): @wardstaceym The post Stacey Ward first appeared on Teaching Anthropology. She was recently appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition. Sitting around a fire would have been a time for storytelling, teaching, and reinforcing group identity.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada My Introduction to Anthropology course concludes with a unit on sustainability, which covers topics like globalisation, food security, and diet. This mattered to me as I teach at a Canadian institution. References Han, D. (27

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Wajãpi had invited me to map archaeological sites in their territory. The Wajãpi already knew of my “archaeological finds”—the footsteps of Creator Hero from the beginning of time. What could my archaeological knowledge possibly offer to such a vast cosmological wisdom? I was excited.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

The value of icebreakers in teaching is well-studied, with recent scholarship highlighting how they can ease anxiety in student interactions (e.g. In future classes, we refer back to the ducky typologies frequently, whether we are looking a hominid evolution, archaeological seriation, or old-school ideas about socio-political systems.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

The value of icebreakers in teaching is well-studied, with recent scholarship highlighting how they can ease anxiety in student interactions (e.g. In future classes, we refer back to the ducky typologies frequently, whether we are looking a hominid evolution, archaeological seriation, or old-school ideas about socio-political systems.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

History books teach us that civilization arose with the Neolithic Revolution when hunter-gatherers first settled down because of the discovery of agriculture. Did civilization arise before religion or did religion arise before civilization? Settled life then led to cities, writing, and religion.

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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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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? This Teaching Anthropology Special Issue will explore approaches to trauma-informed anthropology and to consider key emerging discussions around trauma-informed approaches more broadly.

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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. According to Crist and co-author Rahman Abdullayev, more precise evidence is needed from securely dated archaeological contexts.

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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. Simulations have the opportunity to bring a historical topic to life in a way that more traditional activities cannot.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 24, 2024

This resource series includes an Introduction to the Flipped Classroom Method , an ice breaker activity , a virtual archaeology activity , and a globalization/sustainability activity.

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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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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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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. 2003) The birth of the clinic : an archaeology of medical perception. 2003) The birth of the clinic : an archaeology of medical perception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Foucault, M.

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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?” The young man and young woman, both with fair skin and nice clothes, approach me. “Hi

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

I first decided to explore the world of scuba diving after reading about a Black man who had done an archaeological dive on a slave ship. DWP has a youth component, which seeks to teach youth to be marine archaeology advocates. I was stunned. While scouring the DWP website, I stumbled upon something amazing.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2024

How might AI-enabled tools aid (or challenge) the ways anthropologists and/or the general public investigate and understand the past, e.g., archaeological site discovery, analysis of ancient DNA or skeletal remains, reconstructing past events, or artifact preservation? Where are there opportunities?

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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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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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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant, our 3-day long programming has guided hundreds of teachers in exploring how technology has shaped history while simultaneously developing teachers’ ability to design, implement, evaluate, and share primary source based historical inquiry.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Exploring Iowa Archaeology ). Iowa’s STEM Teaching Endorsement Partnership – Higher Education Plan , Jeff Weld & Kris Kilibarda. Lunch and STEM Education Awards for Inspired Teaching , Gov. STEM Education Award for Inspired Teaching video. Kim Reynolds & Mary Andringa. Will attend Iowa State U.

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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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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. 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 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

This summer, tthe AAA hosted three interns through the Virtual High School Internship , and throughout the summer, the interns engaged in a variety of enriching activities: Research Projects: They read scholarly research articles, took them apart to see how they were constructed, and communicated their methods and findings to diverse audiences.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Issued: January 19, 2024 Response deadline: February 2, 2024 Pitch responses: February 7, 2024 First drafts due: February 21, 2024 For our second issue of 2024, Anthropology News invites you to explore the anatomy of deception and dissect the truths and untruths that form our understanding of reality. What forms do these deceptions take?

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Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2025

TikTok users have adopted it to make realistic short videos about archaeology and history. But others are more specific to archaeology. Even before the use of AI, it was widely accepted within archaeology that visualizations of the past are highly fraught and should be treated with extreme caution.

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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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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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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

A Shared Heritage: What Maltravieso Teaches Us Maltravieso Cave offers a rare glimpse into the shared artistic legacy of humanity. By refining dating methods, researchers have expanded the horizons of archaeology, enabling more nuanced interpretations of our ancestors’ lives and creativity. DOI : 10.1016/j.anthro.2023.102975

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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.

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