Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As requested by the local Tibetan community, a linguistic anthropologist (Ward) and graduate student (Moli) adapted the Buddhist-inspired framework of SEE Learning to facilitate reflections on best practices in Tibetan heritage language education.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 8, 2025

2025 Led by Dr. Sara Juengst, an international team of researchers analyzed the burial, comparing it to others from the region. Alongside her, researchers identified a separate cranial fragment from an individual aged 25–35 years old, though their relationship remains unclear. Related Research Ubelaker, D. 1 Juengst, S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

And research shows that even when students know they need help, they dont always seek it. Yaritza Garcia, a 22-year-old psychology major at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, said she wanted to supplement traditional therapy services with a peer counseling program.

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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

To uncover this past, a team launched the country’s first archaeological research. Edsiley Encarnação leads researchers through dense growth to the ruins of São Tomé’s oldest sugar mill. Our research at Praia Melão is of global importance, as it explores the origins of plantation slavery in the 16th century.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A postcard from early to mid-20th century shows Hopi dancers in traditional regalia in front of Hopi House, a building in honor of Hopi connections to the Grand Canyon. CC What is the traditional origin history of the Hopi people? It is also because of the Hopi and Pueblo people that archaeological sites exist within Chaco Canyon.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As anthropologists, we study what we care about, making research an intimate undertaking. Here, Dr. Mecca Howe and Ariana Gunderson discuss the effects of our food research on our personal relationships with food, while considering the role of our eating choices within the food system and our research for the communities we study.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 27, 2024

Recently published in PLOS ONE 1 , research by scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology (LDA) of Saxony-Anhalt explores the rich tapestry of culinary traditions spanning from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

[Image Courtesy: Jamie Kidston, ANU] The Laili Rock Shelter Discovery The Laili rock shelter, located in northern East Timor (also known as Timor-Leste), has been the focus of extensive research conducted by archaeologists from Australian and UK universities, including the Australian National University (ANU) and Flinders University.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A multidisciplinary team of researchers explains historical, cultural, and ethical issues they considered while developing a 3D scan of a South African site to be shared with the world online. This has led to numerous archaeological and heritage sites appearing online in interactive 3D platforms, such as Sketchfab.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Using skills they’d learned in their computer science lessons, the students designed a traditional button blanket on a laser cutting machine. The report calls for more investment in training Native educators to teach computer science and related fields, and integrating Indigenous culture, traditions and languages into those classes.

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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. Together, we developed a research program that braids archaeological science and Wajãpi knowledge. Now I view both Wajãpi researchers and myself as archaeologists. FIRST TRIP TO WAJÃPI TERRITORY In Brazil, 1.7

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

While parts of the education system have incorporated tailored methods to keep students engaged, mathematics is often still taught in traditional, non-differentiated ways. A growing body of research has revealed the diversity of student strengths and challenges and a wide variety of pathways there are to effective learning.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Dating back to the late Holocene epoch, approximately 8,200 years ago, these ancient paintings provide insights into the cultural heritage of South America's early inhabitants. Recent discoveries 1 of rock art and cave paintings in the caves of Patagonia, Argentina, challenge previous notions about the antiquity of rock art in the region.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties. Researchers have found that culturally relevant education can increase grades, participation and critical thinking skills and can lead to higher graduation rates. Related: Teachers go to school on racial bias.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 23, 2024

Furthermore, Mithen's research underscores the enduring legacy of early linguistic developments in shaping the contours of modern speech. As anthropologists and linguists embark on a voyage of discovery, Mithen's magnum opus stands as a beacon illuminating the path toward a deeper understanding of our linguistic heritage.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. Researchers have connected the knowledge and values of Black feminism with culturally congruent mental health resources for Black women.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Research on the physical, psychological and academic benefits of outdoor learning for kids is well-established, and is now informing the development of climate education. What’s also becoming well-known is the essential role of traditional and Indigenous ecological knowledge in the effort to cope with the climate crisis.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big increase in homeschooled students, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources. That’s partly why he’s interested in classical learning, a form of education that often emphasizes the “classics” of Western heritage.

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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. Like restrictive immigration policies, academic publishing limits movement: Elsevier and Springer charge exorbitant fees for research access, creating knowledge borders that restrict participation.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Through annual ritual traditions, local people communicate with and care for Mount Everest, or Jomolangma as she is called in the local Sherpa language. Featuring images of their namesake wind horses , lungta prayer flags are a significant symbol in Indigenous Bõn and Buddhist traditions. Affordability poses another challenge.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2024

Now, pioneering research 1 led by Dr. Piers Kelly and his team at The University of New England sheds light on the intricate web of meanings embedded within these humble sticks, unveiling the Australian Message Stick Database ( AMSD ) – a groundbreaking repository of over 1500 message sticks sourced from collections worldwide.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

Figures from the Pew Research Center show that Latinos are still vastly underrepresented in the science, math and technology workforce. He imagines that a century from now, education researchers are going to look back at the edtech explosion of our era and wonder, “What were marginalized and Latino students doing?” “And

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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. Upon research, they learned that our county was deeply divided over Lincoln and the Civil War ( in fact federal troops would be called to our county just a few years after Abe’s speech to put down a draft riot ).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Dual-language programs most commonly exist as subsets of traditional high schools, where select students take classes in a language other than English, though generally not for a full half of each day. Research shows that when such students get instruction in their native language, they have greater educational success.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. Research shows links between language learning and other enhancements — more flexible thinking, greater empathy, protection against age-related cognitive decline — although findings are hardly robust. In some academic fields research is going global. is in trouble.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Researchers believe it was crafted using Latin characters to inscribe a Vasconic language linked to contemporary Basque. Further analysis reveals at least five words adorning the hand's palm, enhancing our understanding of pre-Roman traditions. The amulet's inscription likely conveys the notion of "good fortune." 1 Aiestaran, M.,

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 5, 2024

Unveiling Gold Treasures and Ritual Offerings Within the sacred confines of the tomb, researchers uncovered a dazzling array of gold artifacts, including intricately crafted bracelets, belts adorned with gold beads, and symbolic ornaments such as crocodile-shaped earrings and gold-covered sperm whale teeth earrings. 1 Martínez, E.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. And research by the Education Data Initiative shows Native students borrow more and pay more per month in student loan debt than their white peers.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I mean, you are just someone who has Chinese heritage, right?” This was what one of my interlocutors, Fangyi, said to me in the middle of our in-person interview after I told her that I do not use WeChat, except for research purposes, as none of my friends or families were on the app. So, you are not like a real Chinese.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Bonded by their shared experiences of never having had the opportunity to learn their heritage language, they come together every day to take beginner-level Mongolian classes and sing Mongolian songs. To enhance immersive experience, the performers wore beautiful traditional Mongolian robes, which they rented from an online costume shop.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

The massive complex, rebuilt in the 1950s in the traditional Mongol style, houses genuine relics and is an important sanctuary for the shamanic worship of the legendary Mongol leader. In the early 1990s, a Mongolian-Japanese research team used ultrasound to identify over 1,300 locations of Mongol nobles’ graves in the area.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Research has shown that racial and economic integration can benefit all students, whether they’re black or white. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation also partners with Plessy, and for three years has used a community grant to fund strings instruction for students under violinist and violist Amelia Clingman.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2025

Around the country, community colleges are stepping in to run apprenticeship programs for heritage industries, such as logging and aquaculture, which are too small to run. For regional heritage trades like logging, just a few apprentices can make the difference between staying in business and shutting down. operates a loader.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Darius calls himself a fractional Persian due to his mother’s Iranian heritage, and he never feels like he fits in. “So the TLDR on this is that we have been lied to, and researchers and scientists have known about same-sex animal behavior for years and years and years. He has clinical depression.

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

A team of researchers will journey by railway to Lac Seul First Nation in Canada to better understand alternative ways of seeing the world. Co-author Mike picked bitterroot for crafting traditional medicine in Lac Seul in 2008. Outsider researchers also rely on Peter Pond’s map of 1785 , where Lac Seul first appears as “Lake Alone.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS — Charles Golding looked for two things when he was researching colleges: a top economics program and a connection to his native culture. Nationally, college enrollment rates for American Indian students are dropping, but the state flagship school has seen success in graduating greater shares of indigenous students.

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