Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

By analyzing genetic divergences in early Homo sapiens populations, researchers argue that the biological capacity for language must have been present at least 135,000 years ago. The researchers propose that language might have played a key role. This challenges the long-held view that language and symbolism arose in tandem.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 4, 2025

But beyond their everyday function of fastening and securing, knots hold something deeper: a story about the evolution of human cognition, the flow of culture, and the quiet persistence of shared technique across continents and millennia. The process of Gauss coding a simple knot. Image credit: Roope Kaaronen / University of Helsinki.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 16, 2025

Researchers led by Rune Iversen from the University of Copenhagen have pieced together evidence that connects these enigmatic artifacts to a period of climate upheaval. These sites, associated with the Funnel Beaker culture, were active around 2900 BCE. John Lee/National Museum of Denmark, R.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Something I’ve noticed is that most states have standards requiring students to learn about Native Americans, both pre-contact cultures and modern citizens. I want you to know that I’m writing this post using the knowledge and tips I’ve gained from working with Native students and adults, attending workshops, and my own research.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 led by researchers at the Nagoya University Museum in Japan offers fresh insights into the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens during their dispersal across Eurasia roughly 50,000 to 40,000 years ago. 1 Kadowaki, S., Wakano, J.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 15, 2024

Here, seventy years ago, Ukrainian researchers excavated pivotal insights into the enigmatic Yamnaya culture—a nomadic pastoralist society that emerged approximately 5,000 years ago.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

A sweeping archaeological analysis 1 led by Gary Feinman of the Field Museum of Natural History offers a strikingly different view. Credit: Linda Nicholas and Gary Feinman Related Research Here are other peer-reviewed studies that further illuminate the social and economic lives of early human societies: Kohler, T. Bogaard, A.,

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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APRIL 10, 2025

.” In keeping with that belief, for sixty years the NEH has served as a vital source of support for the work of humanities organizations, educators and scholars who believe that our world is improved through research and publicly accessible programs that promote a deeper understanding of literature, history, and ideas.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Her research interests included the areas of health policy issues, program performance evaluation, Black women, and related political issues. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan. Johnson has conducted extensive research on Afro-Brazilian, African American and Afro-Latin American politics. He has a BA.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Although, these categories of findings are often seen as ‘objective’ and scientific in nature and are not really linked to existing socio-cultural hierarchies, their use by the ruling dispensation like what Hoddar (2005) argues are nevertheless part of politics, politics of identity construction and formulation.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. of the population, according to research from New American Economy, and are the fastest-growing ethnic minority group in the United States, according to Pew Research. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Researchers analyzing 22 ancient feline remains from 14 sites across China have reshaped the timeline of cat domestication in the region. Image credit: Hunan Museum Collection Database.) A Tang Dynasty mural from A.D. 829 is one of the earliest depictions of domestic cats in China. Two black-and-white cats are visible at the center.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

We are hoping to spend a day together at the Wannsee Villa near Berlin which today is a museum that deals with a meeting of high ranking Nazi officials in 1941 when they crafted the Final Solution. The experience that someone called me a Nazi was very hard for me because I felt like people don''t understand me and the German culture.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two-year Rural Library Fellowship, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Save the Children, is attempting to boost the capacity of libraries and “activate libraries around third grade reading” according to Dreama Gentry, executive director of Partners for Education at Berea College. “Our

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The country’s next generation of leaders is pushing for racial equity, economic equality, disability justice and gender and sexual liberation; to succeed they will need the observational and analytical skills that can be developed by studying ideas, historical events, aesthetic works and cultural practices.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2024

Ötzi the Iceman, a poignant relic of antiquity, has captivated anthropologists with his cryptic tattoos, offering a glimpse into the complex tapestry of ancient cultures. © South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/Eurac/Samadelli/Staschitz. © South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/Eurac/Samadelli/Staschitz. 2015: fig.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Research evidence certainly backs a phonics approach when first teaching kids how to read words but students need a lot more than word recognition to become good readers. High-income children are more likely to travel, go to museums and attend live performances. Only one in five students is reading at grade level.

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Pedagogy to Share

OCTOBER 20, 2022

When I arrived in Rethymnon in Crete from Israel, I knew I would be participating in a GatherED international workshop about language education in multi-lingual and multi-cultural classroom environments. On Friday morning, we travelled to the University of Crete and were directed towards the Centre of Research.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

The gas station: “ Hey Joe, I heard you had a student doing some research about local mines in our community. I remember when I was a little girl, you could still go to the museum and see the Native American remains before the governor ordered the museum to cover them up.”

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. A space for learning: An analysis of research on active learning spaces. 56-67. . &

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

However, the researchers caution that this type of skeletal change is not exclusive to riding; other activities, such as prolonged sitting or riding in carts, can also produce similar alterations. in a culture known as the Yamnaya. The new research casts doubt on the skeletal evidence used to support the Kurgan hypothesis.

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ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

The Delta Cultural Center is a museum and educational complex that tells the story of a land and its people, capturing what makes the Arkansas Delta region unique. It is the mission of the Delta Cultural Center to preserve, interpret and present the cultural heritage of this legendary 27-county area.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Archaeologists from the Lolland-Falster Museum, in collaboration with Aarhus University, have analyzed the site and published their findings in Radiocarbon 1. This shift, associated with the emergence of the Funnel Beaker Culture, led to permanent settlements and the construction of houses, megalithic tombs, and other structures.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this third post, we explore how Powerful Learning is collaborative and connected, share research that grounds these two principles, and provide resources to support your own learning and teaching practices. Knowledge is built through social interactions 1 in a collaborative culture 2. Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Often, the product of this influence is a colonialist narrative that presents past cultures as flawed or inconsistent (because they fail to meet modern criteria) and modern (usually Western) cultures as the resolution of these inconsistencies. Fellowships will be distributed equally across the 2025-2026 academic year (i.e.,

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. For both of us, this was our first show in a museum. Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

What activities can I use to help my grade students understand the cultural/historical context of ? “Would You Rather” Options for Transfer and Application Below are examples of “would you rather” options designed to remove barriers and help students transfer and apply their learning more effectively.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

We must create an inclusive culture. Research tells us that young people from low-income families have significantly less access to non-classroom learning opportunities than their peers from families with more resources. Currently, the professoriate at America’s universities is much whiter than the general population.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What is new is that we are calling them badges and microcredentials and using them primarily to certify specific skills, such as cross-cultural competency, welding and conversational Spanish. . So what are they? Microcredentials are certifications of mastery; badges verify the attainment of specific competencies.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The exemptions — which apply to universities, museums and other nonprofits — are nearly 200 years old and part of the state constitution. But she added that Columbia was a driver of the city’s economy through its research, faculty and students, and its capital projects, including $100 million in upgrades to local infrastructure since 2009.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 15, 2024

Field Museum scientist Luis Muro Ynoñán with the carving of a mythological bird creature in La Otra Banda, Cerro Las Animas. This remarkable finding also predates other well-known pre-Inca cultures, such as the Moche and Nazca civilizations. is likely connected to the Moche culture. 2024, July 10). Fieldmuseum.org.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The Redpath Museum on the campus of McGill University in Montreal. The research is among the latest to document the woes of what has grown into an army of 792,000 U.S. It breaks my heart.” Part-time faculty at McGill earn more, on average, and have more benefits than their counterparts south of the border in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2018

The poor were less likely to go on cultural outings. For example, only 32 percent of poor kids and 44 percent of “near” poor kids went to an art gallery, a museum or an historical site over the summer. Roughly 40 percent of non-poor kids — middle class and wealthy — attended summer camp.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. Washington University in St. And so on… .

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