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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

While we can't definitively say that these early humans crafted stone tools, our findings demonstrate that their hands were frequently used in ways that closely align with the actions necessary for human tool manipulation," explained Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen. afarensis , A.

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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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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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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

A Jawbone from the Edge of the Map Long before shipping lanes crossed the Taiwan Strait, and long before Taiwan was an island at all, an archaic human jawbone settled into the mud of the ancient seabed. ” The Most Elusive of Human Relatives The Denisovans have always been strange occupants of the human family tree. .

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C3 Teachers

MAY 5, 2025

Ive always defined myself as a human rights educator, centering that theme throughout my 23 years of teaching. Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow in 2019. The culminating task asks students to act as museum curators, pitching an Armenian Genocide exhibit to a supervisor. That moment became a mandate.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 11, 2025

A recent study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 , provides some of the earliest direct evidence that humans were actively managing and domesticating avocados as far back as 7,500 years ago. “It fills a big hole in our knowledge.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 1, 2025

“This research is a landmark project,” said archaeologist David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past. The methodology was approved by tribal councils. The interpretation was shaped by cultural context. Nature , 1–8.

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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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Anthropology.net

JUNE 28, 2024

An artist’s impression of a Neanderthal family on display at the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia. ” Conclusion The discovery of Tina represents the oldest known case of Down’s syndrome and demonstrates that the diversity observed in modern humans was already present in prehistoric times. 1 Conde-Valverde, M.,

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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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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Please note that this article includes images of human remains. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth.

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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

MAY 22, 2025

No one could have predicted that this modest fragment would launch a redefinition of the human family tree. Denisovans were created from DNA work," said paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London. A New Model of Human Origins? It wasn't the shape of the finger that caught scientists off guard.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

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. Large-scale digitization projects, such as those undertaken by museums or archives, often prioritize materials based on perceived cultural or historical value.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe. "DNA

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Anthropology.net

MAY 9, 2025

Houston Museum of Natural Science. Though diminutive in size, these stone tools carry the weight of cultural practice: microscopic evidence of black pigment, signs of repeated use, and wear patterns consistent with puncturing soft tissue suggest their role in a deeply intimate and symbolic process—tattooing human skin.

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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. It’s intended for larger museum, school and community spaces. S tudents revealed that they were eager to spend more time with the experience.

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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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Teaching Anthropology

JUNE 12, 2023

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? Curious about human evolution? Take part in interactive workshops such as ‘Conspiracy Theories and Their Truths in Times of Confusion: Anthropological Perspectives’, ‘7 Million Years of Human Evolution in 45 Minutes!

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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. I'm a human being that sometimes needs to eat food and go to the bathroom when I want to,” she says.

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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! They offer focused tours on a variety of topics including The life and writing of Ernest Hemingway.

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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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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 6, 2025

But the first humans once living here probably walked in hunting. Check out the museum. “Turn here,” they surely said, as they caught sight of the mouth of such a large tributary. It must lead to someplace important, an important place to be exploring. Thoughts of history bring forth lives once living.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

The program demonstrates the dynamic capacity of the humanities to advance justice and equity in society and illuminates career pathways for recent PhDs beyond the academy. The full roster of partnering organizations and positions is available here. Fellows join an engaged alumni community of PhDs working across a variety of sectors.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. For both of us, this was our first show in a museum. Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2018

Children are capable of understanding science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts when they are less than a year old but these skills must be developed intentionally, according to a new report released by The Center for Childhood Creativity (CCC) at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 6, 2015

More than a third of them aren’t convinced that the planet is warming, and only half think human activity is causing climate change, despite consensus among scientists that it is. Our generally poor understanding of science has critical policymaking implications… Image credit: Creation Museum 002b , becky johnson. via [link].

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

In the third week of March, Tamiesha Parris got an email from another school — Guidepost Montessori at Museum Mile — announcing it was still open for the children of essential workers. Museum Mile was near their new home. “ Presley started at Museum Mile on Monday, March 30. Bright Horizons did not return a request for comment.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured.

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