Anthropology.net

JANUARY 27, 2025

Yet, could these stories also encode the history of humanity’s migrations and interactions? By combining genetic data with a vast database of over 2,000 mythological motifs, this research uncovers how the tales we tell may trace back to the Out of Africa migration, some 60,000 years ago. .

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2025

Among the architectural remnants and everyday artifacts, researchers have uncovered compelling evidence of early copper use and production.​ ​ These findings challenge the traditional timeline, which places the advent of copper metallurgy in the Chalcolithic period, around 4000 BCE. c) Chisel axe.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

The early human settlement of South America stands as one of the last great migrations in human history, yet the environmental conditions that shaped this journey remain debated. Although a single lithic tradition/category is assigned to each site, some contain more than one (e.g., The modelling work (e.g., <2,5000 masl = orange.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 4, 2025

The research, published in Antiquity 1 , challenges long-held assumptions that this part of Africa was a historical void waiting to be "awakened" by foreign traders. “Kach Kouch decisively challenges the notion that the north-western Maghreb was essentially terra nullius prior to Phoenician arrival,” the researchers write. .

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history. Bonavia, D., & Grobman, A.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

However, the scale of ochre extraction and the evident skill involved at Lion Cavern marks this site as a unique focal point in the history of human creativity and ritual. This extensive ochre extraction reveals not a simple, one-time usage, but a complex tradition of quarrying, refining, and transporting the mineral across great distances.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 11, 2025

For decades, researchers have debated the nature of their interactions. Our data show that human connections and population interactions have been fundamental in driving cultural and technological innovations throughout history," says Yossi Zaidner, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lead researcher on the project.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As our team of researchers drove southeast through Utah toward Bears Ears National Monument , changes in the landscape unfolded around us. The co-management plan recognizes the deep cultural legacies of Indigenous peoples and establishes a legal basis for ceremonial and traditional practices such as gathering medicines, food, and firewood.

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TeachThought

JULY 20, 2024

Understanding AI Concepts Start by helping students grasp core AI ideas like algorithms, data analysis, and pattern recognition through traditional teaching methods Analogies and Stories: Compare an algorithm to a recipe a chef follows, highlighting the step-by-step process.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But a new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Ferrara and published as a preprint on bioRxiv 1 , challenges this oversimplified account. Their findings upend traditional assumptions. Temporal and geographical distribution of skin pigmentation estimates in Eurasia from Paleolithic to Iron Age. Credit: bioRxiv (2025).

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

By analyzing genetic divergences in early Homo sapiens populations, researchers argue that the biological capacity for language must have been present at least 135,000 years ago. The researchers propose that language might have played a key role. Fossils do not speak, and ancient DNA does not carry recordings of conversations.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A Window Into Humanity’s Past Hunter-gatherer societies represent the foundation of human history, defining how humans lived for 99% of our existence. Expanding the Scope of Cultural Transmission The research identifies nine modes of cultural transmission, examining how and from whom children in hunter-gatherer societies learn.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Faculty of Arts have unveiled an innovative approach, combining Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies with excavation practices. Archaeology, the science of unearthing and interpreting humanity’s ancient past, is entering a transformative era. 1 Cobb, P.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For this study, researchers examined skeletal positioning, potential grave goods, and signs of deliberate excavation. This gap suggests that burial practices may not have had an unbroken tradition across time and species. Been et al., 1 Been, E., & Barzilai, O.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The fact that there is no valid research base to support these mandates just builds greater resentment for the change process. One just has to refer to the history books to see how this has played out across the world since the beginning of time. This is a great example of forced change. Forced change rarely works.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Nearly 20 years ago, Google made an ambitious play to digitize the content of some of the world’s largest research libraries. Schonfeld, co-author of the new book, “Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization.” Listen to the entire interview on this week’s EdSurge Podcast.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 7, 2025

This confirms that the Lapedo Child lived thousands of years earlier than some prior estimates and aligns the burial with other Gravettian mortuary traditions across Europe. Earlier research suggested that a juvenile rabbit’s remains, red deer bones, and charcoal found near the child indicated a carefully orchestrated funerary rite.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

High in the Zeravshan Valley of Tajikistan, the Soii Havzak rock-shelter has provided researchers with an invaluable glimpse into early human migration routes and daily life in Central Asia. Discovered 1 only recently, this rock-shelter sits 40 meters above a tributary of the Zeravshan River, approximately 10 kilometers north of Panjakent.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

A New Chapter in the Alphabet's History Previously, scholars believed the alphabet emerged in or near Egypt as a tool for simplifying the complex hieroglyphic and cuneiform systems of the time. What Was the Purpose of the Cylinders? The find also highlights the importance of interdisciplinary archaeological work.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Ancient Mud Unlocks 130,000 Years of Australia’s Fire Management History Australia’s relationship with fire extends back thousands of years, with Indigenous land management practices deeply shaping the continent’s ecology.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Credit: Alessandro Urciuoli (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) A team of researchers, led by Alessandro Urciuoli of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, turned to the semicircular canals—structures within the bony labyrinth of the inner ear responsible for balance—to test an idea.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. The starkest example of growing inequality is in eighth grade math, wherethe achievement gap grew to the largest in the history of the test. More than 450,000 fourth and eighth graders, selected to be representative of the U.S.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 19, 2025

An Ancient Cave with Modern Questions Franchthi Cave, nestled in the Peloponnesian peninsula of Greece, has been a silent witness to 40,000 years of human history. This approach minimizes ambiguities, allowing researchers to distinguish between protein sources with remarkable precision.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. New research suggests that these schools might actually pay for themselves in long-term benefits to both students and the public as a whole. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner. Are they worth it?

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 of ancient human DNA from the Oakhurst rock shelter in South Africa is shedding new light on population history in one of the world’s earliest regions of modern human activity. ” Despite these challenges, the research team was able to construct a time series of genomes spanning 10,000 to 1,300 years ago.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

New research involving faculty from Binghamton University, State University of New York, disproves the widely held belief of a “population crash” on Easter Island, revealing it to be a myth. DiNapoli, Environmental Studies Research Development Specialist; and Dylan S. Davis, a Columbia University post-doctoral fellow.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Collaborating with the team behind First Weapons , a television series aired by ABC, researchers employed state-of-the-art biomechanical tools to measure the energy, speed, and overall efficiency of these tools in combat. Historical records suggest that while some conflicts led to injury, death was not always the intended result.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Search for the Origins of Iron Smelting Albert Jambon, a researcher involved in the study, explains that the goal was to better understand when and where iron smelting first began. The researchers propose that the meteoritic iron used in these artifacts likely came from a locally observed meteorite fall. A Witnessed Meteorite Fall?

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! The gas station: “ Hey Joe, I heard you had a student doing some research about local mines in our community. What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? Hey, will you have Cooper call me?

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The Footprints That Rewrite History In the shifting gypsum sands of White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a series of fossilized human footprints have surfaced, casting a striking new light on the ingenuity of Ice Age inhabitants. Some researchers have speculated that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers used watercraft. Primitive boats?

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 15, 2011

Even though there is a great deal of research on the loss of learning that occurs during the summer I am perplexed by the fact that many schools and parents are not doing more to prevent this. History, Calculus AB, English Language & Composition, and English Literature & Composition.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The discovery of an Epigravettian layer at Grotta della Lea now provides a new chapter in this long history, capturing a time when small bands of hunter-gatherers were adapting to life at the edge of the Last Glacial Maximum. Related Research Romandini, M., Marciani, G., Benazzi, S., Scientific Reports, 12 (1), 5609.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Our experience as Contributing Editors over the past four years taught us that boundaries between different writing themes are often blurry: we published pieces based on fieldwork experiences, innovative research, and current events, as well as pieces that consisted of entries on both current events and hot topics in the profession.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 8, 2016

However, if schools and leaders do not take cues from history it is only a matter of time before they suffer the same fate of obsolescence. Research has shown that redesign can impact student learning (Barrett et al., Communications Schools still rely on traditional means (email, newsletters, phone calls). Barrett, P.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Unfortunately, many college alternatives, especially career and technical education programs, have a complicated history. Traditional higher education has reached an inflection point.

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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. These European burials included individuals with "eastern-type" traits—characteristics often associated with nomadic steppe traditions.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. My online learning activities typically involve the use of short videos, online discussions, student research, podcasts, and various formative assessments. They typically last between 3 and 4 days.

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