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Best of SAPIENS 2024

Sapiens

The SAPIENS Editorial Team Material World Tools of the Wild: Unveiling the Crafty Side of Nature By Michael Haslam and Abigail Desmond Once considered a uniquely human activity, tool use has been spotted across diverse species. Its time to rethink what tools reveal about their users intelligence and evolution.

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Recognizing the Digital Assets You Have at Your Disposal

A Principal's Reflections

Links to your resources and work can be archived and annotated using a social bookmarking tool such as Diigo. The human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text. Once my live video is shared on Twitter using Periscope, I then upload the archive to both IGTV and YouTube.

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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

provides connection and coherence through the careful effort of trained human curators, making more than ten thousand articles from five hundred publications easily searchable and interconnected. Teachers can share any entry, or collection of entries, from Bunk with students, who can also explore the evolving archives for themselves.

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Learning Never Stops

A Principal's Reflections

While every webinar is broadcast live at a set time, what makes them very appealing is that they are archived for convenient viewing. It is like a human-generated search engine on steroids that is at your beck and call. Many publishers and professional organizations offer these free of charge to their membership. It’s all about YOU!

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Mapping Ancient Emotions: How Mesopotamians Felt and Expressed Their Feelings in the Body

Anthropology.net

But how did ancient humans experience and describe these feelings? By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time. PDF Link : uzh.ch Svärd, et al.

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In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was Matrilineal

Sapiens

The error perhaps was in believing that this was a single event in a linear, evolutionary understanding of humanity through time. Read more from the archives: When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows. Nonetheless, recent ancient DNA work is now revealing patrilineal descent for some Neolithic groups in Britain.

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An Ethnography of Textile Preservation: Caring for the Wardrobe of a Missing Person

Anthropology News

The human urge to collect and preserve objects, what Jacques Derrida calls archive fever , takeson special significance when there is no body to bury, no grave to visit. Her four-decade vigil of preservation reflects not only personal grief, but also how humans create and curate meaning amid violent political upheaval.

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