Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

An anthropologist unpacks what shifting attitudes toward these birds reveal about humans. They congregated in Vondelpark, close to the citys famed museums and canals, and also in Oosterpark, where I jogged daily. Racist and xenophobic political discourses often describe human migrants as unwanted vermin or invasive insects.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

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. The ability to preserve history is a form of power, and that power is rarely in the hands of the public. But migration is never neutral.

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Sapiens

MARCH 5, 2024

An archaeologist explains how remains recently recovered from a cave in present-day Germany suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans populated Europe together for at least 10,000 years. An international, multidisciplinary team has identified human ( H. However, there are many challenges to exploring this distant time.

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ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

Last week, the ASHP was one of many organizations and individuals suddenly notified about the termination of grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its state humanities councils bring reading programs, traveling exhibits, and authors to some of the country’s most rural corners.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

A new study 1 challenges long-held beliefs about the origins of horseback riding, casting doubt on the Kurgan hypothesis, which claims that humans first began domesticating horses as early as the fourth millennium B.C. Horseback riding can indeed leave subtle marks on the human body. Can Horseback Riding Change Your Skeleton?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The genetic legacy of Neanderthals persists in modern humans, with 1-2% of non-African genomes composed of Neanderthal DNA—a determination made through comprehensive sequencing and comparison of ancient and modern genomes. “These beneficial traits spread rapidly in early human populations.”

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 11, 2024

Neanderthal genes present in modern humans may have been introduced through an extended period of interbreeding starting around 47,000 years ago and lasting nearly 7,000 years, according to new research. Consequently, the genomes of contemporary human populations outside Africa contain about 1% to 2% Neanderthal DNA.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Over the past decade, researchers, museum professionals and educators have started to explore the use of virtual and augmented reality in relation to Holocaust education and memory. One even said she had “never wanted to learn history’’ before. It’s intended for larger museum, school and community spaces.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Within a few decades, they built an empire that stretched from the Eurasian steppe to the heart of Central Europe, reshaping political landscapes and leaving an imprint on European history. 137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes." Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 19 , 263-289. Rasmussen, S.,

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

However, if humans learn by participating in their lives then how can online learning be effective? Adding video conferencing tools, like Zoom , Google Hangout, or Skype, to online learning allows for a more immediate and human connection. When people tackle everyday challenges, they learn. Participation.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Before the soft-footed, domesticated Felis catus found its way into Chinese homes, another feline species occupied human settlements for thousands of years. Their findings suggest that leopard cats filled the niche of rodent control in human settlements long before domesticated cats arrived.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 6, 2025

Thoughts of history bring forth lives once living. But the first humans once living here probably walked in hunting. As I sit with my breakfast, staring out on this river of history, I wonder who was the first European to see it?France Check out the museum. But I think they misread his journal.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. EdSurge spent a morning with the teachers as they toured Smithsonian museums in small groups. I'm a human being. They taught Welch that history is made up of “little moments” in people’s lives.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up. KELLEN ZENG.

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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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Living Geography

MARCH 28, 2025

Here's a description from the Norfolk Museums service: The Singh Twins describe the concept of the jigsaw puzzle a single image comprised of many separate but interlinked pieces as symbolically representing the nature of colonial history as a global story; individual but interconnected narratives shaped by different experiences and viewpoints.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024.

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ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

Student Exploration Students visiting the museum can take a guided tour of both Hemingway’s studio & the Pheiffer home. Curriculum Guide The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center offers educational programming to all ages! The agricultural history of the Arkansas Delta region. The Great Depression and New Deal.

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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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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. 1 Kadowaki, S., Wakano, J. Watanabe, A., Tsukada, K., Tarawneh, O., & Massadeh, S.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 24, 2024

A key aspect of human evolutionary success is our ability to build on past knowledge. Unlike other species, humans don't have to learn how to do things from scratch. The question then arises: when did humans develop this ability? Accumulating Culture Human technology is a testament to cumulative culture. million to 1.8

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 19, 2025

Seeking a moments hesitation within which water-based life can again be certain, before resuming its race to the final destination and obliterating its history. The treasure chest of human experience! Even Schimpffs Confectionery and the famous Louisville Modjeska Caramel is related to this human eddy.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

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. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. Source: Alamy.In That’s another one of many examples.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 15, 2025

Seeking a moments hesitation within which water-based life can again be certain, before resuming its race to the final destination and obliterating its history. The treasure chest of human experience! Even Schimpffs Confectionery and the famous Louisville Modjeska Caramel is related to this human eddy.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. Washington University in St.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

A recent not-yet-peer-reviewed analysis 1 of ancient and modern genomes suggests that contemporary human Neanderthal DNA originated from a single, prolonged period of mixing approximately 47,000 years ago. Introduction A new study, recently released as a preprint on bioRxiv , sharpens the timeline for this crucial period in human history.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Center for Premodern Studies (CPS) is the home for collaborative scholarship and outreach in the historical humanities and social sciences at the University of Minnesota. CPS’s connections within and beyond the UMN will support fellows in engaging regional scholars, special collections, and museums.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America? History this Week. The History Channel. Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Jackson, MS.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 11, 2024

Archaeologists from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence , in collaboration with partners from Serbian museums, have unearthed a remarkable discovery: a previously unknown Late Neolithic settlement nestled near the Tamiš River in Northeast Serbia. The deep black angular anomalies indicate a large number of burnt houses.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Unlike programs at other colleges and universities, the curriculum focuses on major Western philosophical thinkers and writers via a “great books” program that Montás , who directs Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, considers critical to students’ intellectual development. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 17, 2023

…Recent research suggests that remnants of Neanderthal DNA in some modern humans could play a role in determining whether individuals naturally lean towards being early risers. Neanderthals, our closest extinct human relatives, continue to intrigue scientists. Will Oliver/PA Images/Getty Images.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Fatwa’ed by the Sultan, abolished by Atatürk In addition to the five standard daily prayers, Bektashis have two additional prayers, at dawn and dusk, for the welfare of all humanity. Like Christians, they have a ritual meal and use an alcoholic beverage ( rakia , a fruit brandy) as a sacramental element.

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 9, 2024

Sexual violence, femicide, human sacrifice, slavery, war crimes, and forced marriage emerge as frequent patterns born out of gender inequality in these narratives. Also welcome are pedagogical approaches to studying these sensitive topics (both in the classroom and in public-facing spaces such as museums). Keywords: 1.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

At Poolesville High School, I am a part of the humanities magnet program where I am supported as I study my interests in political science, writing, editing, and history. Some of my favorite classes that I’ve taken are AP American History and AP Government. Mahlet Ayele is a rising senior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.

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ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

The Delta Cultural Center is a museum and educational complex that tells the story of a land and its people, capturing what makes the Arkansas Delta region unique. DCC even offers an interactive Escape Room exhibit, where students answer questions about Arkansas history while racing to solve puzzles and escape the room.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb.

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