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“We Have Always Been Here”: How DNA and Oral Tradition Aligned to Tell the Picuris Pueblo’s Deep Past

Anthropology.net

MAY 1, 2025

In this landscape stands Picuris Pueblo—a small, sovereign tribal nation whose history has long been narrated in stories passed down through generations. These stories speak of migration, of belonging, of origins tied to Chaco Canyon, one of the great ceremonial and cultural centers of the ancient Puebloan world. It is record.

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It’s Time to Replace “Prehistory” With “Deep History”

Sapiens

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A team of archaeologists working in Southeast Asia is pushing toward a deeper understanding of history that amplifies Indigenous and local perspectives to challenge traditional archaeological timelines. Instead, we advocate for “deep history.” Instead, we advocate for “deep history.” Dinosaurs roaming ancient landscapes?

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Painting Through Change: How Aboriginal Artists Reimagined Animal Life in a Shifting Holocene Landscape

Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

For decades, they were thought to be remnants of an earlier, Ice Age aesthetic, part of a vast visual tradition called the Irregular Infill Animal Period (IIAP). Of the 151 rock art sites identified, 22 preserved animal depictions that broke stylistically with the earlier IIAP tradition. Antiquity, 90(354), 126–143.

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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. How were those pots used?

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Oral History of Forgottonia: Building a Public History Project in Rural Western Illinois

NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.” As part of the NCHE project, The Rural Experience in America , history club students at Cuba High School created a podcast about a local history topic of their choosing.

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Using Conversational Video

HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This post will describe the importance of having secondary students engage in oral history projects and describe a new Artificial Intelligence technology StoryFile that can help students practice posing questions to pre-recorded conversational video without the heightened anxiety that comes with actually talking to a real person.

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From Theory to Praxis: Entrepreneurship as Resistance

Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Thankfully, we have records of past Afro-descendant entrepreneurs through both written and oral histories. It is “an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience ”. Turning one’s gaze south, the works of historian Michael L.

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Creating a curriculum with Black girls in mind

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Cierra Kaler-Jones wasn’t your traditional dance teacher. Her classes involved lessons on Black history and women’s history, as well as wide-ranging conversations about was happening in the world. When she discovered this, Kaler-Jones began weaving culturally responsive lesson plans into her dance classes.

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Obsidian Blades Unveil Culinary Connections between Polynesians and South Americans on Rapa Nui

Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2024

The unearthing of starch grains on obsidian blades from Rapa Nui's Anakena site represents a pivotal discovery in understanding the intricate web of cultural interactions and culinary traditions among the island's earliest inhabitants. The 20 obsidian blades found at the archaeological site of Anakena on Rapa Nui.

Oral History

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Horses and Native Americans: Rewriting The Timeline

Anthropology.net

JUNE 13, 2024

A new study in Science 1 reveals that many Native American populations across the Great Plains and the Rockies had incorporated horses into their cultures by the early 1600s, long before direct contact with Europeans. Rock art at a Wyoming site depicts a horse and rider, likely carved by ancestral Comanche or Shoshone people. 1 Taylor, W.

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Discovery of Ancient Aboriginal Pottery in Far North Queensland

Anthropology.net

APRIL 11, 2024

The discovery challenges existing perceptions of Aboriginal technological capabilities, shedding new light on ancient Indigenous cultures. This unprecedented find suggests a rich pottery tradition among Aboriginal peoples predating European contact. Some of the pottery pieces excavated at Jiigurru (Lizard Island). McNiven, I.

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OPINION: Higher ed partnerships will help the arts survive Trump’s budget cuts

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

The arts and cultural sector are no stranger to budget cuts. Our work together has involved workshops and community forums, and our artist residencies have culminated in published papers, a community oral history project, and student exhibitions and performances, as well as professionally produced works of theater and dance.

Oral History

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

There’s just so much that’s been shaken up in our country, in our culture, in our education system. Fourth graders got to have their traditional field day. The post ‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Ortiz, directs the MA in Engaged and Public Humanities Program at Georgetown University, where hes a professor of Latinx literatures and cultures.

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“We Have Always Been Here”: How DNA and Oral Tradition Aligned to Tell the Picuris Pueblo’s Deep Past

It’s Time to Replace “Prehistory” With “Deep History”

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Painting Through Change: How Aboriginal Artists Reimagined Animal Life in a Shifting Holocene Landscape

Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

Oral History of Forgottonia: Building a Public History Project in Rural Western Illinois

Using Conversational Video

From Theory to Praxis: Entrepreneurship as Resistance

Creating a curriculum with Black girls in mind

Obsidian Blades Unveil Culinary Connections between Polynesians and South Americans on Rapa Nui

Horses and Native Americans: Rewriting The Timeline

Discovery of Ancient Aboriginal Pottery in Far North Queensland

OPINION: Higher ed partnerships will help the arts survive Trump’s budget cuts

‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

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