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Binghamton University Pipe Dream
February 1, 2018
This isn't the first time Mount Carmel, a famous and historically important mountain range in Israel, has yielded important archaeological finds. In 2002, a team led by ... “Several of us [anthropologists] were studying the fossil ― taking pictures, measurements and photographs,” Quam said. “We collected aÃÂ ...
Jewish Advocate
January 31, 2018
A jawbone found in an Israeli cave changed anthropologists' understanding of modern human migration out of Africa PHOTO COURTESY TEL AVIV UNIVERSITYTEL AVIV, Israel – A jawbone complete with teeth recently discovered at Israel's Misliya cave has now been dated roughly to between 177,000ÃÂ ...
ISRAEL21c
January 29, 2018
The holiday of Tu B'Shvat is the New Year of the Trees. That's a fact every Israeli schoolchild knows. But not everyone may be aware that Israel's Parliament, the Knesset, celebrates it birthday on Tu B'Shvat. And every year, Knesset members (MKs) participate at tree-planting ceremonies around the countryÃÂ ...
90.5 WESA
January 25, 2018
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the oldest fossil of a modern human outside Africa. The fossil suggests that humans first migrated out of the continent much earlier than previously believed. The scientists were digging in a cave called Misliya, on the slopes of Mount Carmel on the northern coast ofÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 25, 2018
Previous discoveries in Israel had convinced some anthropologists that modern humans began leaving Africa between 90,000 and 120,000 years ago. .... of the morphology of the maxilla and determined it's not a Neanderthal,” said Melanie L. Chang, an anthropologist from Portland State University whoÃÂ ...
FinalCall.com News
January 24, 2018
Why did Ethiopian-born Israeli model and actress Tahunia Rubel, who became famous on the Israeli version of “Big Brother,” say, “Israel is one of the ... During an exclusive interview with The Final Call, Mr. Hill, who is also an anthropologist and working on a master's degree in Middle East studies, wasÃÂ ...
what's up
January 4, 2018
That's where Krav Maga, a system originally developed for Israel Defense Forces, comes in. Over the years, the close-combat ... Think enjoying a foreign country is only for trust fund babies, anthropologists, lottery ticket winners or travel bloggers who got really lucky? Leave that mentality behind with 2017.
Aljazeera.com
December 28, 2017
None of the usual feminist and rights groups or political figures has issued statements supporting her or reprimanding the Israeli state. ... Such framings open the way for authorising excessive torture - Israel's education minister Naftali Bennett, for instance, wants Ahed and her family to "finish their lives inÃÂ ...
NPR
December 26, 2017
But the leadership changed and the nationalist faction began forging a closer relationship with Israeli hardliners. ... The 28-year-old Berlin native and cultural anthropologist, who wears a headscarf and who has lived in Vienna for the past decade, says the first incident happened when she accidentallyÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 19, 2017
“Until recently we thought that modern humans appeared something like 200,000 years ago, maximum 250,000 years ago,” says Israel Hershkovitz, a physical .... Today, the Israeli anthropologist adds, “We know that the Neanderthals are much more important to our evolution than we thought and ourÃÂ ...
+972 Magazine
December 14, 2017
In order to safeguard that independence voice, we are proud to count you, our readers, as our most important supporters. If each of our readers becomes a supporter of our work, +972 Magazine will remain a strong, independent, and sustainable force helping drive the discourse on Israel/Palestine in theÃÂ ...
Pakistan Today
December 12, 2017
LAHORE: US President Donald Trump's decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and officially recognise the ancient city as the capital ... Pakistan Today (PT) spoke to Americans from across the divide, including Israeli-Americans, Palestinian-Americans, celebrities, journalists, writers,ÃÂ ...
Charleston Post Courier
December 9, 2017
As ancient Israel united into a nation, Yahweh prevailed, yet a defeat at the hands of the Babylonians led many Israelites to conclude that the Babylonian god, Marduk, was stronger. ... Reviewer Rachel Newcomb is an author, anthropologist and a professor of teaching and learning at Rollins College.
RT
November 19, 2017
Anthropologist Yossi Nagar of the Israel Antiquities Authority presented the findings at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, which took place in Boston from November 15 - 18. Nagar identified 30 of the skeletons as definitely or probably males, based on their pelvic shape andÃÂ ...
ISRAEL21c
December 31, 1999
This jawbone found in an Israeli cave has changed anthropologists' understanding of the migration of modern humans out of Africa. ... Until now, the earliest remains of a modern human found outside of Africa, at the Skhul and Qafzeh caves in Israel, were dated to 90,000 to 120,000 years ago.
The Conservative Woman
December 31, 1999
Jared Diamond is an American anthropologist, evolutionary biologist, historian, linguist, scientist, writer, environmentalist and geographer – the epitome of a polymath. He is best known for writing Guns, Germs and Steel (1997) and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005). His latest bookÃÂ ...
Middle East Forum
November 30, 2017
In 2014, during Israel's Operation Protective Edge, when large crowds of Turks regularly attacked Israel's diplomatic missions in Ankara and Istanbul ... be internationally known as the "Sivas massacre" ended and the mob dispersed, 35 people, mostly Alevi intellectuals as well as a Dutch anthropologist, ...
Undark Magazine
November 30, 2017
Sherwood Washburn, the physical anthropologist who coined the phrase “obstetrical dilemma,” first published his theory in the September 1960 issue of Scientific American. He argued that, “in man, adaptation to bipedal locomotion decreased the size of the bony birth canal at the same time that the ...
Science Magazine
November 30, 2017
“People haven't typically focused on females in this society, [but] it's very important for understanding … the divisions of labor that exist today,” says Hila May, an anthropologist at Tel Aviv University in Israel who studies evolutionary anatomy, but was not involved in the new work. “I wish we could go back ...
TheTower.org
November 29, 2017
Anne Allison, Charles Piot and Orin Starn are signatories to DukeDivest, which calls upon Duke University to “end military ties to Israel.” Engseng Ho and J. Lorand Matory are signatories to the Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions (ABIAI). Ho is also listed as a signatory on the “Call ...
From the Grapevine
November 28, 2017
Archaeologists from Israel's Tel Aviv University uncovered a cave where humans seem to have taught each other to make tools 400,000 years ago. No word yet on the price of tuition. Conventionally, anthropologists have thought that our modern species, with all its speaking and technological prowess, ...
Salon
November 27, 2017
As an anthropologist, I've been studying child-rearing practices around ... ranging from Israel and the Palestinian territories to China, Portugal, ...
International Policy Digest
November 27, 2017
Resolution 242 is the basis for the Egyptian-Israeli (1979) and the Jordanian-Israeli ... Israel is not a nation like other nations, no matter how much its ..... The anthropologist Edward Hall in his groundbreaking 1976 book ...
Daily Telegraph
November 25, 2017
... the Book is a protective structure built in Israel to house the Dead Sea Scrolls. ... the Qumran region's Dead Sea Scrolls,” anthropologist Yossi Nagar says. ... A Israeli student of archaeology, works near the remains of a cave ...
RT
November 19, 2017
Anthropologist Yossi Nagar of the Israel Antiquities Authority presented the findings at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental ...
The Photo News
November 18, 2017
And she ended her statement by quoting anthropologist Margaret Mead: ... in various publications here in the United States as well as in Israel.
Science News
November 18, 2017
Anthropologist Yossi Nagar of the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem ... Israel Antiquities Authority anthropologists Hanania Hizmi and ...
E-Flux
November 16, 2017
... will base her presentation on examples from Israeli architectural, ... the late nineteenth-century German anthropologist Hermann Frobenius.
Jewish Exponent
November 1, 2017
These lectures will be held at citywide locations, including the National Museum of American Jewish History and Congregation Mikveh Israel, ...
Breaking Israel News
November 1, 2017
In a find that has taken their field by surprise, Israeli archaeologists ... of a pregnant woman at the ancient copper mines in southern Israel's Timna Valley. ... The woman, who anthropologists believe was likely in her 20s, was ...
Haaretz
October 31, 2017
... the help of physical anthropologists Israel Hershkovitz and Hila May from ... The woman must have been in her twenties, the anthropologist ...
Forward
October 24, 2017
As an anthropologist who studies the complexities of 21st century ... The alumni survey asked how important “love of Israel” is to us, which left me ... and how many are working so hard to change Israeli society for the better.
The Real News Network
October 12, 2017
Not only against the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon and .... VIJAY PRASHAD: Well, there's an anthropologist, Sami Hermez, ... Lebanon has lived for a very long period anticipating the next war prosecuted by Israel.
The Vanguard
October 11, 2017
He winds up working on a Kibbutz in Israel, where he falls in love with the ... Young readers, and anthropologists, too, will find this account of a ...
The Atlantic
October 11, 2017
Eric Greene, a cultural anthropologist and the founder of the Green ... a Natufian burial site from 10,000 BCE in what is now northern Israel.
The Diplomat
October 10, 2017
Turkish minorities in the former Soviet Union, Chechens in modern Russia, and Palestinians in Israel/Palestine have all used Islam as an ethnic ...
Mondoweiss
September 21, 2017
There is no swarming like that of Israel once Israel has got a start, and the ... Israeli-American anthropologist Smadar Lavie said, “…the extent of ...
NEWS.com.au
September 16, 2017
... is the true skull of Mary Magdalene,” biological anthropologist from the ... Mary Magdalene (and her child) fled Israel to the south of France to ...
SBC News
September 13, 2017
... to Professor [Deborah] Durham, for having made the class read an excerpt from 'The Poetics of Military Occupation' by Israeli anthropologist, ...
Breaking Israel News
December 31, 1999
Researcher Yossi Nagar, an anthropologist for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), reported last week that the most probable explanation for ...
+972 Magazine
December 31, 1999
Illustrative photo of pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters on campus. ... Dr. Oren Kroll-Zeldin is a cultural anthropologist who teaches in the ...
The Sewanee Purple
September 29, 2017
... given by Diana P. Hatchett, a cultural anthropologist and Sewanee alumna. ... So far, only Israel has gone public with their support.
The MIT Tech
September 29, 2017
The following email was sent today to the MIT community by Provost Martin Schmidt and Executive Vice President and Treasurer Israel Ruiz.
Mondoweiss
September 21, 2017
There is no swarming like that of Israel once Israel has got a start, and the ... Israeli-American anthropologist Smadar Lavie said, “…the extent ofÃÂ ...
NEWS.com.au
September 16, 2017
... is the true skull of Mary Magdalene,” biological anthropologist from the ... Mary Magdalene (and her child) fled Israel to the south of France toÃÂ ...
Breaking Israel News
September 15, 2017
Anthropologist Marina Faerman of Hebrew University determined that the ... of the mitzvah to bury the dead,” he told Breaking Israel News.
SBC News
September 13, 2017
... to Professor [Deborah] Durham, for having made the class read an excerpt from 'The Poetics of Military Occupation' by Israeli anthropologist,ÃÂ ...
Aiken Standard
September 3, 2017
The country's 2006 war with Israel spurred more to leave, and most ... an anthropologist of Lebanese Druze descent who wrote a doctoralÃÂ ...
San Diego Downtown News
September 2, 2017
His latest discovery: that the Lost Tribes of Israel settled in (wait for it) ... Just then she arrives: anthropologist Phyllida Spotte-Hume (JessicaÃÂ ...
Fortune
September 1, 2017
... such as the co-reared peers of the Israeli kibbutz, tend not to marry one ... up to artistic license (or consulting with the wrong anthropologists).
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