Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways.

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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. Mr. Stipel took the group to the former Lostice synagogue and gave them the history of the Jews in Lostice. Lostice is a town of about 3,000 people.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

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. Bennett, A.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Book : De Gruyter , 2008. Book Chapter : Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe , 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Over the course of the semester-long class, students research their own family histories, tracing one line back as far as they can through birth, death and marriage records, Census records, and church records, primarily. Each student’s book featured photos, narrative and copies of some of the vital records they tracked down.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

Having hoped to bring the exhibit to campus for the past number of years, we were finally able to do so after securing a small grant from our campus Center for the Latino/a and Latin American Studies Center (CLLAS), and with collaboration from the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Students shared emergent understandings of U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

After five years of research and writing, I am pleased to announce that my first book is under contract with University of Texas Press. Below is an excerpt from my book prospectus. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The emphasis on a human-centric approach underscores the commitment to cultivating a balanced perspective on AI integration. Educators are encouraged to view AI not merely as a technological advancement but as a tool to enhance and augment the human experience. EdSurge: How have you incorporated the teaching of AI in the classroom?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A better understanding of the long arc of technology history might just help us make a course correction, he argues. Smith lays out his views in a new book, “ The Internet is Not What You Think It is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning.” We connected with Smith for this week’s EdSurge Podcast.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

A link to the book and its Table of Contents is found here.) The crossing of Morgan’s men into Indiana is steeped in local history and well-remembered by local residents. Displays jampacked with meaningful objects, pictures, and documents that will bring the history of Civil War in Brandenburg into focus.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 23, 2024

In the vast tapestry of human history, certain discoveries emerge as seismic shifts, reshaping our understanding of our origins and the paths we've traversed. Mithen's holistic approach, spanning disparate realms of inquiry, forms a tapestry of evidence that paints a vivid portrait of humanity's nascent linguistic capabilities.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

Celebrity author Hancock has made a fortune writing sensationalized books that claim a “lost” ice age civilization once existed—without any direct evidence for this society. I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Prehistoric Advantage of ADHD Traits For most of human history, Homo sapiens lived as hunter-gatherers. Fossil evidence indicates that our species has existed in this mode of life for at least 288,000 years, which accounts for approximately 95% of our evolutionary history. That means there’s an evolutionary mismatch.”

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The precursor and inspiration for Rail Baltica was a curious event that occurred on August 23, 1989, when up to 2 million people linked hands across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — then still part of the Soviet Union — to form the longest human chain in history. More on that here. Credit : Laimonis Stīpnieks, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Below is a listing of some of activities that incorporated digital learning: In Mrs. Collentine’s Humanities class, students worked in the computer lab on researching the history of drama and theater in the culture of their own heritage. Students worked in pairs using Mac Books to record comments on a shared Google Doc.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I recommend teachers pull any learning activity that will benefit from human interaction, peer support, and social learning into synchronous time. For example, a social science teacher covering early American history could complement that work with a question like, “ What did it mean to be an American?

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a social Darwinist, Schaaffhasuen believed various races represented different stages in a linear progression of human evolution. Figuier, a creationist, viewed Neanderthals as humans like us—manifested by a Biblical God on the sixth day of creation. Keith’s nearly European Neanderthal figured into human history.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 20, 2024

Historian John Avery Dittmer (October 30, 1939 – July 19, 2024) was the author of key texts on the SNCC and grassroots organizing in Mississippi, including Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi and The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This process is often not straightforward and indeed medicine has changed its mind over history as to what the aetiologies (causes) of various diseases are and even as to what the body looks like. Throughout most of history this interaction is what doctors have based their diagnosis and treatment pop.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 6, 2025

Thoughts of history bring forth lives once living. But the first humans once living here probably walked in hunting. As I sit with my breakfast, staring out on this river of history, I wonder who was the first European to see it?France It must lead to someplace important, an important place to be exploring.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

In appreciation for your feedback , we’ll send you a people’s history book. Lesson Whose History Matters? history classes, I would ask students about “that guy some people say discovered America.” The film explores the history of what transpired in 1492 and after, and how “Columbus” has been used throughout U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

Most of us can remember a moment like this from our school years: the teacher poses a question – maybe it’s math, maybe history. Classic studies by psychologists James Stigler of UCLA and the late Harold Stevenson, detailed in their 1994 book The Learning Gap , compared videotaped lessons in eighth-grade math in several countries.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up. KELLEN ZENG.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. Such interest also distracted from the breakthrough’s Nobel-worthy value: answering scientific questions about species’ history and evolution.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2025

The modern scientific concept of solidarity is frequently traced to the French sociologist mile Durkheim, who, in his seminal 1893 book The Division of Labour in Society , distinguished between mechanical and organic solidarity. Durkeim investigated mechanical solidarity not by reading history, but by reading ethnographies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. On the bus, Lewontin turned his attention to humans. His results have been replicated time and again over the last 50 years, as datasets have ballooned from a handful of proteins to hundreds of thousands of human genomes.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

In a recent book exploring the influence of generative AI on teacher education, two researchers, Punya Mishra and Marie K. In fact, I think it has enormous potential to augment our human creativity and to support effective teaching and learning. Can these tools make us more human, not less?

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The response from readers was unlike any he had experienced, prompting him to expand his ideas into a book, B t Jobs: A Theory , first published in 2018. Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. He had no inkling it was about to cause something of a minor sensation.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. Professor Dunn’s first book, Complex Justice (2008), examines the 1995 case of Missouri v. Pico (1982).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Morrison was reflecting on her 45-year career crafting some of the most moving and important novels in American history, days before publishing her 11th and final novel, God Help the Child , in 2015. Morrison’s fiction is often rooted in historical fact, including the bloodshed and violence that continue to mar American history.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. One of the most powerful questions they asked is a question about space: “What was the home you grew up in like?”

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