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JUNE 6, 2025

English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images Spanning more than three million years and 103 cultural traits, their analysis, published in PLOS ONE 1 , seeks not just to catalog the artifacts of early humans but to trace how knowledge of these tools and practices was passed on. Evolutionary Anthropology , 29(6), 287–299.

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candidate in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. A cover of Unifruitco Magazine , a publication of the United Fruit Company, promoted the companys restoration project at Zaculeu.

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MARCH 27, 2025

The report underscores the precarious nature of anthropological data, detailing how fragile digital formats, inadequate archiving standards, and shifting institutional priorities have led to the permanent loss of valuable research materials. The post Bits and Bytes Dont Leave Bones appeared first on Anthropology News.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This feeling drives her to continue sharing these memories, turning what could be mere nostalgia into an active practice of care that connects her children to their heritage. There, he prepares the dishes that root them to their heritage: paruppu, chicken fry, shrimp curry, and hard-boiled eggs with rice.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

But they are often regarded as variants or dialects of Chinese rather than different languages due to China’s relatively strong sense of ethnolinguistic identity , common cultural heritage, and widely understood written system. A visitor touches Chinese characters carved at Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, China.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Ariana Gunderson is a PhD student in Anthropology at Indiana University and the Anthropology News Section Editor for SAFN. But, these tropical foods like banana and pineapple are not part of my heritage or my culture, so I don’t feel like I’m losing that identity by not consuming those foods.

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SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. SAPIENS is an editorially independent magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the University of Chicago Press.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Issued: February 5, 2024 Pitches due: March 4, 2024 Decisions: March 22, 2024 First drafts due: April 17, 2024 Anthropology News invites submissions for the fourth issue of 2024, which will explore the multifaceted concept of “treasure” through an anthropological lens. Multimedia works should target approximately 10 minutes in length.

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APRIL 7, 2025

Such animals may superficially resemble dire wolves in appearance or size, but they do not possess the complete genomic architecture, evolutionary heritage, or ecological identity of true dire wolves.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In the initial tweet the original poster tweeted that it would be “crazy” for Hispanics that do not speak Spanish to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. responds by questioning why people shouldn’t be allowed to celebrate their heritage regardless of their language abilities and adds that Spanish is a colonial language anyways.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Origins of Risky Play: A Legacy from Early Humans Co-author Zane Thayer, associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth, explains that although children today are physically safer than ever before, societal anxiety about injuries has never been higher. ” The researchers connect this concept to our evolutionary history.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The collective aims to explore the intersection of craft, anthropological collaboration, and speculative futures in the Persian Gulf region. Golabatoon doozi embroidery represents the rich visual heritage of the region; however, its existence is now under threat, mirroring the precarious state of the windcatchers themselves.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In contrast, numerous treasuring practices organized and maintained by local communities, such as the Merti Dusun ritual (hamlet cleansing) in Javanese society, effectively preserve cultural heritage and enhance collective capacities, ensuring the continued preservation and vitality of these cultural treasures.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Through outreach efforts, the team works closely with local residents to share findings and preserve cultural heritage. As anthropology pioneers, Toohey, Murphy, and their team exemplify the transformative power of research, bridging the past and present to illuminate humanity's rich cultural tapestry. 1 Toohey, J.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For six weeks, we spent 40 percent of our time at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) office and 60 percent of our time at partner institutions: the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC).

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I mean, you are just someone who has Chinese heritage, right?” For her, it seems like being a “real Chinese” is not simply about having Chinese “heritage,” sharing a Chinese blood tie and celebrating Chinese culture. Does using WeChat qualify someone to be “Chinese”? “So, So, you are not like a real Chinese.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The scheme aims at planning their socio-economic development in a comprehensive manner while retaining the culture and heritage of the community by adopting habitat development approach and intervening in all spheres of their social and economic life, so that a visible impact is made in improvement of the quality of life of PVTGs.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2024

Recent research 1 conducted by interdisciplinary teams from Würzburg University Hospital (UKW), Homburg University Hospital (UKS), and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (MPI-EVA) aims to shed light on the genetic basis of liver steatosis through an archaeogenetic lens.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Our mission has always been to communicate knowledge, highlight African contributions to the world’s cultural heritage, and to create. The post ​​​“Å falle mellom to stoler”: Africans in Norway appeared first on Anthropology News. Organizations like ours cannot, and should not simply stop existing. As we’ve always done.

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Anthropology for Beginners

JUNE 1, 2025

The Role of the Indian Anthropological Society in Shaping Indian Anthropology Introduction The Indian Anthropological Society (IAS), established in 1969, has been a pivotal institution in the development and promotion of anthropology in India.

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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. The post The Semi-Conductor Radio Made in Shanghai appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology for Beginners

JUNE 1, 2025

The Role of the Anthropological Survey of India in Shaping Indian Anthropology Introduction The Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI), established in 1945, stands as a cornerstone in the development of anthropological studies in India.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

As one of the centennial issue’s authors notes, "Too often, African paleoanthropological heritage is the domain of international teams 4 , with little meaningful collaboration from local African researchers." Current Anthropology , 53(S6), S000-S000. History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa. 1 Dart, R.

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APRIL 2, 2025

For, I work extensively on Tanzanian heritage and human remains entrapped in Germany. Despite my training and my experience with adjacent fields, such as anthropology and philosophy, I became increasingly disdainful of the sprint toward objectivityan oasis mirage, especially as a historian of Africa. The time for that has passed.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

Adapting to Harsh Realities The research, led by Dr. Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, highlights how Homo erectus repeatedly occupied areas in the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania—a UNESCO World Heritage site. ” Current Anthropology. “It’s not a one-time camp. . ” Related Research **Antón, S.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation. I’m an archaeologist anthropologist who started writing in the anthropology publication about 15 years ago and had the seed idea of what would become SAPIENS and brought it to fruition. That topically we are focusing on anthropology.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

Some universities are defunding and dismantling programs in archaeology , history , anthropology , art history , ancient languages , and classical studies. Pseudoarchaeology robs Indigenous peoples of their heritage. Meanwhile, it seems few people know what archaeologists actually do. K–12 schools in the U.S. rarely cover the field.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Uncharted doesn’t stand alone in the narrative it serves, but it is a notable entry in a long line of pulp fictions that treat tangible cultural heritage as objects that can be removed from their context with no change in significance. This is how Nathan interacts with treasure and heritage sites.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2024

Anthropological poems from around the globe speak to people’s creative will, resistance, and resilience—and the significance of our shared humanity. ✽ We asked authors to share their insights into “what brought humanity to this point [in history] and anthropology’s role in those processes.” Indigenous anthropologist Jenny L.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The group shares information about the islands ancient history and the role of local collaborators in discovering that heritage. All members are united in the goals of educating the local community about Rusingas incredible fossil heritage. Others are schoolteachers, university students, and community leaders.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 22, 2025

In a quiet storeroom of the University of Turin's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, an unnamed woman sits still. Journal of Cultural Heritage , 2025) The woman is part of no documented excavation. Journal of Cultural Heritage , 73 , 561–570. These face tattoos are unusual, even for an 800-year-old mummy. Radelet, T.,

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Anthropology News

MARCH 10, 2025

Thus, IDC builds overall research capacity including for anthropologists and anthropology students. The Heritage Foundation. The post Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care appeared first on Anthropology News. Gans, Paul, and S.

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Eighth-grader Zakaria Ali, right, a student of Somali heritage, talks about how Muslims lose their freedom when Americans equate Islam with terror, as eighth-grader Hadil Ramadan, left, listens. Eighth-grader Zakaria Ali, 13, a student of Somali heritage at King Middle School in Portland, Maine. Photo: Yoon S.

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