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Early Copper Crafting Among Anatolia's Last Hunter-Gatherers

Anthropology.net

The narrative of human technological advancement has long positioned metallurgy as a hallmark of settled agricultural societies. However, recent findings from the Gre Fılla site in southeastern Turkey suggest that the roots of metalworking may extend deeper into our hunter-gatherer past than previously understood.​ a) Location of early metallurgical activities in Anatolia and Gre Fılla archaeological site. b) The context where the vitrified material (GRE-VRF) was found. c-d) Stru

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Teachers Believe That AI Is Here to Stay in Education. How It Should Be Taught Is Debatable.

ED Surge

One of the perks of Angie Adams job at Samsung is that every year, she gets to witness how some of the countrys most talented emerging scientists are tackling difficult problems in creative ways. Theyre working on AI tools that can recognize the signs of oncoming panic attacks for kids on the autism spectrum in one case, and figuring out how drones can be used effectively to fight wildfires in another.

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Do-it-yourself mental health efforts by community college students

The Hechinger Report

Elijah Gregory had overcome a lot by the time he arrived at North Central Texas College in Flower Mound as a freshman at 19. He had contended with physical health issues, depression and anxiety. He had lost a parent to addiction. And hed struggled to finish high school. So he was proud to achieve the next step, enrolling in community college. But when Gregory got there, he felt lost and lonely.

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

Migration is always more than just a transferit is a point of tension where preservation, power, and priorities intersect. Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns. 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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The Importance of Place-Based Learning in Digital Spaces

Digital Promise

The post The Importance of Place-Based Learning in Digital Spaces appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Spatial Labor Controls of Contemporary Plantations: A Supervised Ethnography in Campo Los Soles

Anthropology News

At 10 a.m., I arrived at Campo Los Soles, a 2000-acre field of grapes with temperatures up to 122 Fahrenheit and 20 miles from Hermosillo City, northwestern Mexico. The 2000 acres are completely fenced with barbed wires, and private security employees are watching the limits of the property day and night. Its main entrance is a 35-foot-high arch with the words Los Soles above two closed gates, a security checkpoint cabin, and corporate advertisements with Mexican and US agribusiness brand logos.

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The Pelvic Anatomy of DNH 43: A Window into Hominin Evolution

Anthropology.net

The human pelvis is a structural keystone—shaping movement, birth, and even evolutionary trajectories. Now, a fossilized pelvis found in South Africa’s Drimolen Main Quarry (DMQ) is providing rare insights 1 into the anatomy and biomechanics of early hominins. Dating to approximately two million years ago, the partial pelvis, designated DNH 43, raises new questions about how early relatives of Homo sapiens walked, gave birth, and adapted to their environments.

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RGS Careers Webinar - 18th of September

Living Geography

Up on the RGS-IBG website already although it's only March and it's not until September are details of a webinar I'm leading on the 18th of September. You can book a place (it's free to attend) on this link. Details: There has never been a better or more important time to embed geographical careers education into your curriculum. Studying geography provides students with knowledge and transferable skills that will reward them personally and advance them professionally.

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Floyd Collins Crystal Cave

Life and Landscapes

The entrance to Floyd Collins’ Crystal Cave on Flint Ridge in Mammoth Cave National Park. Reggie Van Stockum with North American Jules Verne Society scholar, Father Matthew Hardesty, on June 17, 2022.

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The Ins and Outs of APSA’s Research Grants: Virtual Workshop Series: APSA Status Committee on Graduate Students in the Profession

Political Science Now

The Ins & Outs of APSA Research Grants Tuesday, April 1, 2025 2:00 3:30 p.m. Eastern | Register Here Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for another virtual workshop aimed at funding your research! This workshop will focus on providing graduate students with the skills and knowledge necessary to apply for APSA grants, including Centennial Center research grants and APSAs various diversity, equity, and inclusion grants.

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Feedspot Top 40 Blog

Living Geography

Apparently LivingGeography is one of Feedspot's Top 40 Geography blogs , along with my Cultural Geography blog. I'm not sure how they work these things out.

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How to Empower Students Right Now, According to a Teacher (Opinion)

Education Week - Social Studies

With social and political unrest, teachers must draw from the past to help students understand the world today.

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Why I Registered

Zinn Education Project

We love hearing how people found us and why theyve signed up to access peoples history lessons from the Zinn Education Project. Here a few of the hundreds of comments educators shared in March. Note that, despite and in response to the Executive Orders censoring teaching honestly, teachers are bravely signing up in greater numbers to access peoples history lessons.

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Who wants to be a Flickr millionaire.

Living Geography

I joined the photo community / sharing site Flickr back in 2004, and have been a PRO member for some time, since they reduced the size of the free space, and focussed on supporting members particularly. Flickr is where I share my images rather than having tens of thousands on my phone. Image: Southwold from the pier, shared under CC license My account page is here.

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Visualizing Scientific Landscapes: A Powerful Method for Mapping Research Fields

Political Science Now

Visualizing Scientific Landscapes: A Powerful Method for Mapping Research Fields By Aya Shoshan and Jennifer Oser , Ben Gurion University of the Negev How can political science scholars use visualization and mapping tools to refine the development of research on complex theoretical concepts? Literature mapping, a powerful method commonly used in the natural sciences to visualize scientific landscapes, is not yet widely used in political science.

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Sport and Soft Power

Living Geography

Thanks to Bob Lang for the tipoff via LinkedIn to this post. Dr. Paul Widdop shared the 2025 Sport and Soft Power ranking following 15 months of research. The full report can be read here. The study examines the relationship between sport and soft power, the outcome of which is a global ranking of the worlds most powerful countries in this regard. The ranking, which is based upon the involvement of sixty experts globally, consists of twenty-five countries that have been assessed as being success

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In Puerto Rico, Trump’s campaign to dismantle the Department of Education has a particular bite

The Hechinger Report

Maraida Caraballo Martinez has been an educator in Puerto Rico for 28 years and the principal of the elementary school Escuela de la Communidad Jaime C. Rodriguez for the past seven. She never knows how much money her school in Yabucoa will receive from the government each year because it isnt based on the number of children enrolled. One year she got $36,000; another year, it was $12,000.

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Place names matter

Living Geography

A piece in 'The Conversation' about place names is well worth a read. In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order - one of many. This one targeted some place names. It included the following order: Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Interior shall, consistent with 43 U.S.C. 364 through 364f, reinstate the name Mount McKinley.