Anthropology.net

JANUARY 27, 2025

A Quest for Our Earliest Stories Myths and legends have always been windows into the human psyche, revealing our fears, dreams, and attempts to understand the world. Yet, could these stories also encode the history of humanity’s migrations and interactions?

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

In schools that belong to the MTC, like Messer’s school, students demonstrate learning through artifacts evidence of their skills and understanding that are collected across content areas. It’s framed around this driving question: How are humans impacting the Earth from an environmental biology perspective?

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JUNE 10, 2024

Definition of Constructionism Constructionism extends constructivist ideas by emphasizing learning through creating tangible artifacts, such as models or projects. He stresses the importance of tools, media, and context in human development. Project-Based Learning: Emphasis on projects that result in a tangible artifact or product.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2025

The narrative of human technological advancement has long positioned metallurgy as a hallmark of settled agricultural societies. Among the architectural remnants and everyday artifacts, researchers have uncovered compelling evidence of early copper use and production.​ c) Chisel axe. Credit: Üftade Muşkara et al.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The Footprints That Rewrite History In the shifting gypsum sands of White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a series of fossilized human footprints have surfaced, casting a striking new light on the ingenuity of Ice Age inhabitants. Historically, it was used by Plains peoples to haul loads across the land, often drawn by horses or dogs.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 18, 2024

Archaeologists have long debated the exact paths taken by early modern humans on their journey to Australia. An exciting new discovery 1 from eastern Indonesia, a tiny piece of plant resin, has pushed the timeline back and revealed critical insights into the route early humans might have taken. centimeters across.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 4, 2025

An Ancient Practice, Revisited Through Code Knots are one of humanity’s oldest tools—so ancient, in fact, that they predate agriculture, metallurgy, and written language. Despite differences in time, geography, and material culture, many human groups developed the same set of knots—again and again.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Leading the transition from 20th century to 21st century schools includes attention to the human toll it takes when such large changes are being required. Bringing a technology agenda forward with the intention of improving student understanding and demonstrated success is essential.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 2, 2025

The tool’s presence among hearth ash, flint chips, and other Mousterian artifacts situates it squarely within a Neanderthal context—long before Homo sapiens entered the region. 2025 The artifact isn’t just evidence of tool use. But this artifact predates such interactions. ” — Golovanova et al.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 25, 2021

Packed with ready-to-use ideas and embedded resources, including the latest digital tools, templates, and artifacts from real classrooms, readers will learn…. It is up to educators to find the right blend of these strategies to empower learners. All of the resources are curated using Google Docs, so they will ways be up to date.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

Findings from Malta suggest that these early humans possessed the skills necessary for significant sea voyages, indicating a level of sophistication previously unattributed to Stone Age populations.​ These include stone tools and animal bones with signs of butchering, suggesting human habitation much earlier than previously believed.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

To correct this, the team organized a workshop where archaeologists directly examined artifacts from both traditions side by side. Neanderthals vs. Modern Humans: Who Made What? Meanwhile, the Uluzzian industry has long been associated with modern humans. This has implications for how we view the spread of modern human culture.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2013

Students that participate in this experience travel to Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic as they learn firsthand about one of the most traumatic events in human history. The culminating learning activity is the ultimate creative artifact where students compile everything they learned into a book and documentary using Adobe tools.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Discovery in the Desert The story of human migration is often told in sweeping arcs—great waves of Homo sapiens leaving Africa, moving into Eurasia, and eventually populating the entire planet. These artifacts stand out for their sophistication, demonstrating a clear departure from earlier Middle Paleolithic traditions.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns. When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

Nearly two million years ago, in the high-altitude landscape of the Ethiopian Highlands, early human ancestors at the Acheulian site of Melka Wakena weren’t simply grabbing the nearest stones to use as tools. Some of the bones display telltale anthropogenic marks, suggesting that early humans had a significant presence here.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

A new study in Scientific Reports 1 argues that their grammar preserves a faint but measurable imprint of the first humans to populate the continent. Naranjo have identified a gradient in grammatical complexity across the Western Hemisphere that aligns with the likely direction of prehistoric human expansion. link] Reich, D.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

Artifacts such as assessments, lesson plans, unit plans, projects, and examples of student work can easily be converted to a sharable link using Google Docs. The human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text. Links to your resources and work can be archived and annotated using a social bookmarking tool such as Diigo.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

Some of those articles are written for mass-market publications, while others focus on specific topics and outlets ranging from nursing to Black culture to material artifacts. Many historians, faced with the difficulty of reaching beyond a narrow audience, have chosen to write for the burgeoning array of online publications.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 26, 2024

Recent archaeological findings 1 in West Papua have unveiled new insights into one of the most significant migrations in human history—the journey of early Homo sapiens into the Pacific Islands. This site, rich in archaeological deposits, provided a window into the lives of the early humans who inhabited the region.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Cheval also emphasizes the importance of direct experience in hand-spinning when interpreting such artifacts. However, this type of analysis is beyond the scope of the current study. “Ideally, researchers studying ancient whorls would be skilled in spinning themselves,” Cheval states. 1 Yashuv, T., & Grosman, L.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Search for Early Symbolic Expression For decades, archaeologists have debated the origins of symbolic thought in early humans. Was it an innovation exclusive to modern humans, or did our distant relatives also engage in abstract expression? Symbolic behavior in early humans is often difficult to identify with certainty.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 29, 2025

Lithic artifacts recovered during recent surveys—specifically tanged points, backed bladelets, and other microliths—match the technological signature of the Ahrensburgian tradition, which spread across northern Europe in the terminal Pleistocene. . The edge of everything then was not where it is now.”

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Hieroglyphic depictions and ritual artifacts reveal that early Egyptians often used animals to represent gods, cosmic forces, or societal ideals. “Understanding how these practices spread and their significance will help us uncover more about the relationship between early humans and their environment.”

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

The graves, filled with artifacts like ornate belt fittings and everyday items, reflected a shared culture. It exemplifies how ancient populations balanced coexistence and diversity, paving the way for future exploration of genetic and cultural intersections in human history. But ancient DNA analysis told a different story.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 5, 2025

A Discovery That Reshapes the Story of Human Innovation For over a century, Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has been the stage for some of the most profound discoveries in human evolution. Credit: CSIC This finding changes the way we think about early human cognition, technological adaptability, and cultural innovation.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 30, 2024

The deserts of northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have long been the focus of archaeological research, revealing their roles as cradles of early human civilization and migration routes through so-called “green corridors.” Initial surveys have revealed a landscape rich in artifacts, suggesting potential migration routes.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 of ancient human DNA from the Oakhurst rock shelter in South Africa is shedding new light on population history in one of the world’s earliest regions of modern human activity. It contained more than 40 human graves and preserved layers of human artifacts, such as stone tools, going back 12,000 years.”

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

A new study 1 challenges long-held beliefs about the origins of horseback riding, casting doubt on the Kurgan hypothesis, which claims that humans first began domesticating horses as early as the fourth millennium B.C. Horseback riding can indeed leave subtle marks on the human body. Can Horseback Riding Change Your Skeleton?

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

More than 46,000 years ago, deep within the caves of what is now northern Spain, a silent drama unfolded between humans and the great beasts of the Ice Age. For centuries, the study of prehistoric life has relied on the fragile remnants of bones and artifacts. “We don’t need bones,” says lead author Gelabert.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

That lack of disturbance makes it an exceptional place to study how humans occupied the region during the final millennia of the Upper Paleolithic. The presence of butchery marks on many of these bones suggests that humans actively hunted and processed animals at the site. Indeterminate bone with a short cut mark; C.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Mountainous regions have long attracted early human populations, but the reasons behind this preference are becoming clearer thanks to new research. The results suggest that these rugged environments were key to human evolution, shedding light on why early human species chose such challenging terrains.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 2, 2025

” From Artifact to Microhistory The breakthrough lies in how scientists now treat time. Instead of lumping broad historical periods into categories based on ceramics or colonial artifacts, radiocarbon specialists are assembling what they call “microhistories.” “They’re not passive recipients.”

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

The presence of this distinctive technology so far from its previously known origins raises new questions about ancient human migrations, cultural exchange, and independent innovation. These artifacts suggest that the inhabitants of Longtan were engaging in complex tool-making behavior typically attributed to Neanderthals in Europe.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

Please note that this article includes images of human remains. This long-lost child, represented only by a lower jaw, was referred to as Ksâr ‘Akil 4 because it was the fourth human fossil discovered at the site of Ksâr ‘Akil in Lebanon, on the Eastern Mediterranean coast. ANOTHER SET OF TEETH “These teeth don’t belong to Egbert!”

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