Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

Nestled within the limestone cliffs of Uluzzo Bay in southern Italy, Grotta della Lea has remained largely untouched since it was first documented in the 1970s. That lack of disturbance makes it an exceptional place to study how humans occupied the region during the final millennia of the Upper Paleolithic.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

We viewed the opportunity to bring HT94 to a campus museum as a broader opportunity to bring together a campus coalition interested in im/migration studies and border studies, bridging across traditional university silos by uniting staff, faculty, students from across campus around a common objective.

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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

MARCH 10, 2025

“Even when they pass on, you still respect and honor them as non-human relatives. In a new paper published in Advances in Archaeological Practice 1 , Ward and his colleagues are calling for museums to take a more ethical, culturally informed approach to caring for the bones of animals, particularly those tied to Indigenous traditions.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 8, 2025

Their findings point to a complex blend of cultural traditions, physical trauma, and ritual significance, raising new questions about Manteño funerary practices and the role of sacrifice in pre-Columbian Ecuador. Valdivia and the Coastal Tradition of Ecuador." Credit: Kathryn Killacky in Juengst et al. History of the New World."

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Anthropology News

MARCH 25, 2025

He went to Pine Ridge time and again and learned to dance, sing, and drum in the traditional styles and to speak Lakota fluently. At Rutgers, Bills specializations in myth, ritual, language, music, and dance and interests in structural and symbolic analysis complemented Rutgerss strengths in evolutionary anthropology and human ecology.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. 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. How were those pots used?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

Two University of California, Berkeley, researchers documented how they tamed AI hallucinations in math by asking ChatGPT to solve the same problem 10 times. Two researchers from University of California, Berkeley, recently documented how they successfully reduced ChatGPT’s instructional errors to near zero in algebra.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 17, 2024

Scientists uncover compelling evidence suggesting that the hunting strategies of early humans involved long-distance running, challenging conventional beliefs about the physical demands and efficiency of such pursuits. Colonial disruptions of traditional societies also contributed to the waning of this hunting strategy.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

Moving Beyond the "Brain in a Bucket" Theory For too long, traditional education has viewed learning as simply filling an empty vessel with knowledge, as if the brain operated in isolation from emotions and the body. This might come as a surprise, but humans actually have fewer genes than most plants, and about the same number as goldfish!

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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 NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements. Approaches: Ethnographic fieldwork tradition has a long history and it is rooted from the 19 th century enlightenment philosophy.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2022

And they’re looking for that learning to not just come from traditional education sources but also from their employer.” “Half of U.S. workers right now—so that’s 100 million workers—believe that in the next five years they’re going to need some sort of new skill to advance in their career. Data will play a larger role.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It turns out my skillset helps map places and histories that are significant in Wajãpi Oral Traditions. Eventually tiring of humans’ complaints and requests, he left Earth to live in the sky. If humans had accepted the invitation, we would have arboreal agilities too. We just draw from different backgrounds.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As a techie at heart, I envisioned a digital utopia where post-pandemic schools would become fully digitized with students and teachers always remote and online while still preserving the magic of human interaction. Ironically, though, it was the lack of human interaction that became the central issue.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: We’ve known for quite some time that pollution is bad for your health but researchers are documenting how it affects our brains. Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: A team of U.K. These studies didn’t document behaviors during a conversation. Tenenbaum’s advice isn’t to get rid of traditional instruction but to use peer discussions to reinforce a lecture. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. This contrasts with local statistics that document high rates of violence against women in the broader region. An estimated “1.8

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. 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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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development. With teacher librarians across the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “They don’t really understand that I don’t want to use Instagram for the classroom,” Brandon said. Some of those things can be more engaging than your traditional, boring dashboard, but at the end of the day, I want to do my Instagram on Instagram.”. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

One criticism of current 3D models of archaeological sites is that they are devoid of human traces and history. The omission of human usage and cultural traces renders these representations static and sterile. Traditional healers and tourists also visit Ga-Mohana. The pursuit of objectivity in scientific endeavors is the norm.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Then Fryer compared test scores of the kids in the “platooned” schools with those in traditional schools in which a main classroom teacher continued to teach most subjects. UCLA’s Howard says that qualitative researchers have documented the influence of relationships on learning for over two decades.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 7, 2025

pdf) file ( not as a Word Document) and: Include a clear thesis and state the papers original contribution(s) by situating it in a larger scholarly context. pdf) file ( not as a Word Document) and include: The title of the panel and titles of each individual presentation. Such sessions are ideal for pedagogy-related topics.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Decades of research documents the benefits of coaching for teachers, students, and school culture. Beyond that, a recent evaluation of instructional coaching programs shows that coaching is more effective than traditional professional development (PD) models in creating meaningful change in teacher practice and student achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. A new Boston study suggests a possible path forward: allow only charter schools that can prove they are better than traditional public schools to expand. Walters, NBER Working Paper No. 25796 May 2019. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Researchers documented that students were often learning a lot less through these prepackaged online courses compared to repeating the class with a human instructor. For English, only half of the online students passed the course and made up the credit compared with two-thirds of the students in the traditional teacher-taught class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P., became the lead plaintiff in a California lawsuit alleging that IQ tests discriminated against Black students and were too often used to label them “educable mentally retarded” and remove them from traditional classes. It does not.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 25, 2024

A nopheles mosquitos that carry malaria-causing parasites spread the disease to humans. In both these cultural traditions, children were believed to have been sent from the spirit world to plague their parents. MEDICAL STUDY AND TREATMENTS Sickle cell anemia was first documented in medical literature in 1910.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Besides the picturesque scenery, the island has preserved a Mazu Temple , a military fort, and a lighthouse, documenting its centuries-old past. These programs painstakingly endeavor to elevate what Chinese academic environments have long downplayed : liberal education, humanities disciplines, and skills like critical thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Because of this diagnosis, an individualized education plan (IEP) — documents detailing Colson’s special needs, and a plan for how his school would help him reach his potential — was already in place when Colson arrived for his first day of school. For the next five years, Therapy Thursdays became a family tradition. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

Traditional teaching uses class time to introduce students to concepts, which they then engage with on their own through homework. Medicine and nursing programs have been natural fits, but some in the humanities are experimenting too, such as in architecture and film. We need some shared narrative.”

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Discovery at Tunnug 1 In southern Siberia, archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric burial mound—Tunnug 1—revealing evidence of human and animal sacrifices from the late 9th century. The excavation revealed fragmented remains of at least 18 horses alongside one human.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

She envisions asking her students to document the resources like green space and trash bins available in their community, and write letters to their city council representative to get more of what the neighborhood needs. Broadly speaking, she said, in indigenous traditions, it’s the latter. That doesn’t motivate action or change.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2017

Digital text makes it easy for students to copy and paste key passages into a document for further study, but there is little research on how this compares with taking notes by hand. In his view, the linear format of a traditional book is well suited for narratives but not necessarily ideal for academic texts or scientific papers. “In

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Hoang co-leads Burbank’s partnership with Turnaround Arts: California , a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that seeks to advance education in a select group of elementary and middle schools in the state. Special needs students use GIS to help them understand and document tasks in their day.

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

One is that cultural norms and gender stereotypes have proven hard to shake, and are sometimes embedded into education systems that track children early on into traditional career paths. A second is structural systems that pose extra challenges for women, like the fact that protective gear that fits them tends to be harder to find.

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