Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. In a recent article , we examined the implications of current scanning technology and sought to answer the question: Can people avoid repeating the mistakes of the past when digitizing cultural locations?

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Memories of the continual improvement he was able to do back then have stuck with him as his career has progressed, including jobs as a high school history teacher, an edtech consultant to schools, a doctoral student and professor, and director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab. And Reich has made it a personal goal to share the lesson.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

In fall 1966 he took his young family to eastern Morelos state while he searched for sites with “Olmec”-style artifacts for his dissertation. That year he published an article in American Antiquity on the Olmec-style reliefs at one of those sites, Chalcatzingo, and he was invited to contribute to a Dumbarton Oaks conference on the Olmec.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. They provide educators with access to historical records, narratives of interesting people in the community, and artifacts (e.g.,

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

With his monotone voice and lack of enthusiasm, he could convince anyone that history is incredibly boring. As a high school history teacher, whenever I meet new adults and we talk about our professions, I often find myself being met with a familiar reaction: "I disliked the subject in school, but now I find it interesting."

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Found in tombs scattered across the region, these delicately carved, hand-sized artifacts bear geometric designs whose purpose has sparked debate for centuries. Deciphering the Plaques: A History of Theories Since the 1800s, scholars have speculated about the meaning of these artifacts, numbering around 1,626 recovered to date.

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Strange Maps

JULY 27, 2023

Although the map describes a future that never happened, maybe it did have an impact on the things to come — if only on the future of dystopian alt-history fiction. Now considered one of the classics of the alt-history genre, Dick’s book doesn’t include any maps, leaving the reader to fill in the story’s many geopolitical blanks.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

So, if I was going to make, develop an op-ed around Native American history and culture I’ve written books, received grants and so on, I’m well prepared to make that argument. Amongst the artifacts discovered was a manuscript with ancient potions and he will EUcksers served to emperors and religious leaders of the time.

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 23, 2023

The class read the brief, informative article aloud and the teacher clarified and checked for understanding. workshop: contextualize and identify meaningful artifacts, then say what the creators of those artifacts were thinking when they created them. The lesson was a classic Question Two (What were they thinking?)

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

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