Sapiens

APRIL 1, 2025

Charlotte has worked on community museum projects, coordinated decolonizing museum programs, and co-curated an independent art exhibition. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. Her research explores how archaeology as a discipline has been used in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Anna Maria Jack says she isn’t flustered when students bring up fringe science denial theories during her 10th grade Earth science class in the Bronx.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways.

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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. What can’t you do with a humanities degree?” Earnings Disparities : Except in a few northwestern states, humanities majors earn at least 40 percent more than people with only a high school degree. Drawing on data from the U.S.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

These values rest on the belief that humans are apart from natural systems rather than a part of these systems, creating tensions for federal land managers and residents. These tensions point to a fundamental disconnect in understandings of how humans and landscapes are connected. What’s going on back there to have that blocked off?

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Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

For, I work extensively on Tanzanian heritage and human remains entrapped in Germany. FORGING A PATH OF LIBERATION THROUGH POETRY How can we, as artists and creative practitioners, access the past when a linguistic border separates us from human stories and speaks only of statistics and numbers? The time for that has passed.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. Her son’s story will be on display for all the world to see when the new Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum open their doors for the state’s bicentennial next month. The museums are vast, engaging and traumatizing.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The scientific establishment, still enthralled by the Eurocentric idea that human origins were tied to Asia or Europe, was unwilling to accept an African cradle for humanity. His work was shaped by the racial and colonial attitudes of his time, and his interpretation of human evolution was, at times, influenced by problematic ideas.

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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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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 News

JANUARY 16, 2025

The human urge to collect and preserve objects, what Jacques Derrida calls archive fever , takeson special significance when there is no body to bury, no grave to visit. Her four-decade vigil of preservation reflects not only personal grief, but also how humans create and curate meaning amid violent political upheaval.

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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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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

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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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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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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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a social Darwinist, Schaaffhasuen believed various races represented different stages in a linear progression of human evolution. Figuier, a creationist, viewed Neanderthals as humans like us—manifested by a Biblical God on the sixth day of creation. Keith’s nearly European Neanderthal figured into human history.

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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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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. That same year, another team, led by Berkeley’s Allan Wilson, reported DNA from a museum specimen of a quagga, a zebra-like creature that went extinct in the late 1800s.

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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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. On the bus, Lewontin turned his attention to humans. His results have been replicated time and again over the last 50 years, as datasets have ballooned from a handful of proteins to hundreds of thousands of human genomes.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Lagging behind in scientific understandings of human diversity, the medical profession is failing its oath to “do no harm.” ✽ Doctors lie daily. I learned about the impact of viruses on the human genome and spoke at conferences about how our evolutionary past made us subject to diseases in modern environments.

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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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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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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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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 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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