Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

They congregated in Vondelpark, close to the citys famed museums and canals, and also in Oosterpark, where I jogged daily. According to medical anthropologist Eileen Moyer , the sculptor Nicolas Dings included this imagery to invoke thoughts of cultural diversity and tolerance toward migrants. Moyer, who is from the U.S.,

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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. Please keep in mind that each cultural group has varying preferences in regard to language and treatment but there are some universal rules. Do not single out Native children.

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Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

The project saw researchers, practitioners, and museum experts unpacking the legacy of the morbid practice of collecting ancestral human remains that was popular in Euro-American circles in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Survival Notes , I recognize the tradition that so many women before me started. The archive was a burial site.

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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. However, the recent study challenges this notion by examining stone tool technology over a 50,000-year span.

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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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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

But new research 1 suggests that an earlier, lesser-known site—Flagstones, a Neolithic enclosure in Dorset—may have played a pivotal role in shaping these traditions. Or was it part of an older, parallel tradition that has largely been lost to time? A red deer antler found during an excavation of the Flagstones monument.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

1933-2024 Credit: Penny de los Santos Sally McLendon (1933-2024) Sally McLendon was an American scholar of Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in North America, with a special focus on the Indigenous languages and communities of Northern California. She completed her Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1966.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Adena People, the Hopewellian traders, the Mississippian maize-based cultures? Transportation in such a river town is a tradition. Check out the museum. Did the later, great mound-building Native Americans peer into the mouth of this large river junction? Stay at the lodge, in a cabin, or at the campground.

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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. As you teach students about a culture some may be unfamiliar with, it can pique their curiosity and renew their interest. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. If you can’t find one, don’t worry.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 15, 2024

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 27, 2024

The study of pottery in Central Europe offers a unique window into the culinary practices and cultural evolution of early societies. This region, a hub of cultural diversity, served as an ideal setting for investigating how food preparation and consumption practices evolved alongside changes in pottery styles and decorations.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

Sprinkled through Homer’s twin epics, Felice Vinci spotted a heap of similar anecdotes that pointed away from the traditional setting of the Iliad , an account of the Trojan War, and the Odyssey , the story of Ulysses’ 10-year journey home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy. Mosaic from the Bardo National Museum in Tunis.

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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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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

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.” Perhaps there are some out there who might think public history is better left to local museums or genealogical societies alone.

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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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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. But We Can’t Teach? That’s another one of many examples.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

Two projects from Asia include the discovery of a Tang shipwreck, which takes you to an exhibit at the Singapore Museum , and a Story Map follows the early thirteenth-century travels of Yelu Chucai and Wugusun Zhongduan, who travel from north China to Central Asia after the Mongol empire's first conquests under Chinggis Khan.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

William Taylor, co-author of the study and curator of archaeology at the CU Museum of Natural History, explained that the earliest definitive evidence of humans using horses for transport comes from the region near the Ural Mountains, dating back approximately 4,000 years. in a culture known as the Yamnaya.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For science class, they head to a museum. But her motivations are also deeply personal, cultural, and, in some ways, unique to Philadelphia. Like traditional charter schools, cyber charters are publicly funded but independently run schools approved by the state Department of Education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Both students circulated to visit their other favorite teachers with whom they’d crafted solar ovens, made plant medicine tinctures and built a banana museum. And, what does it look like to include culture and climate when it comes to accountability? It is these moments that make me realize that teaching has made me soft.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But I still feel a kinship to all Native people, and the conflating of our cultures makes everything feel personal, for better or worse. Making fresh corn tamales is part of the author’s family traditions. She wants to work for the national park system; I want to work in museums. She’s kind of right. she asks rhetorically.

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 9, 2024

This session invites papers that explore points of interaction between art and systematic gender-based violence in the visual traditions of the ancient Mediterranean world. What degree of agency do the subjects of such violence have over the production of these visual traditions. Keywords: 1.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

Brooklyn Ascend Charter School was designed to look like an art museum, with high-quality replications of famous paintings from around the world. Photo: Kevin Hagen. The arts can bridge communication gaps and convey a greater level of knowledge.”.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2024

British Museum records describe a message stick adorned with etched motifs, featuring depictions of ships, houses, trees, and geographical landmarks. Acquired in 1885, this artifact offers insights into Indigenous communication methods and cultural symbolism. 1 Kelly, P., Bibiko, H.-J., J., & Barker, L.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan — The students in the crowded hall fall silent as Darlene Speidel, an elder and “knowledge keeper” of native traditions, says a prayer in the Lakota language over soup and bannock, a kind of flat bread. “It Photo: Liam Richards. When it’s over, there’s a dash for the buffet. Six thousand died. Davidson said.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

These districts have forged partnerships with museums, workforce development agencies, philanthropic organizations, higher-ed institutions, after-school programs, and local businesses to provide students with more opportunities to pursue their passions, and develop their skillsets.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Besides offering all classes in both English and Spanish and embracing the language and culture of its a predominantly Latino student body, administrators prioritized a host of highly regarded improvement strategies in the school’s design. Exhibits in the Museum of Fine Arts allow student painters to display their work.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

Because he is at the Academy this summer, he was been able to spend extra time with his teachers, work hard to catch up in key subject areas, and gain a little confidence before needing to adjust to the rigor and pace of the traditional school year. Botanic Garden to field trips to Smithsonian museums and other spots.

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ASHP CML

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In June, ASHP researcher Emily Uruchima (Kichwa) participated in Indigenous Voices of the Americas: Celebrating the National Museum of the American Indian at the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festiva l. Emily also discussed her academic research on Indigenous migrant women’s domestic labor, particularly in childcare work across New York City.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Pittsburgh teens in front of the Chinese Art Museum. I am often faced with the decision to assimilate and lose the Chinese culture or keep the culture and just not fit in. It is intended to be a trip that helps us find our roots and spurs us to treasure our heritage and culture. Photo: by Tonji University students.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So She was stunned to find out that none of the families had actually heard such comments. It was the first time she had spoken to a group of parents who hadn’t been warned away.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am joining you from the traditional land of the Haudenosauneee and Anishinaabe peoples, but I grew up on the traditional land of the Abitibiwini Aki and lived for 30 years on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit. MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture , (6). George’s Museum. link] Freire, P.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Credit : James Churchward: Books of the Golden Age (1927) / Public domain) One of their wooden beakers is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The majestic peak of Mount Shasta, here seen from Highway 97, exerts a powerful mystical pull on a wide range of spiritual traditions, from Native American and Buddhist to — Lemurian.

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