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I'm currently a college student studying anthropology. I am particularly interested in archaeology, linguistics, and history. The power of words to enact significant change never ceases to amaze me.

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Sciences > Sciences (Other) Pseudoscience and the scientific method: 1 of 3
Pseudoscience is a body of knowledge, methodology, or something else that claims to be scientific but does not adhere to the scientific method. It is often encountered when dealing with outlandish theories, such as alien influences in human cultural development, or when the evidence for a proposed theory is lacking. Publicat... More..
Sciences > Sciences (Other) Commentary: When scientists play the role of fear-mongers: 3 of 7
Scientists find themselves in the unique position of having to make recommendations based on their hypotheses. They do everything they can to make sure those hypotheses are sound and have been independently confirmed, but when it comes to issues of grave importance and urgency, it is difficult to find a balance between givin... More..
Arts & Humanities > Art Appreciation Understanding the art of Ancient Egypt: 2 of 4
Choose a piece of ancient Egyptian art, and chances are that the way it looks is because it was the most functional way to represent that image or idea at a certain time given the constraints in material, space, or purpose. This can go a long way toward explaining why the two-dimensional representations created by ancient Eg... More..
Business > Business News & Issues How the grey zone between profit and philanthropy can benefit you: 1 of 2
A recent movement in the business industry has been towards a symbiotic relationship between non-profit ventures and for-profit companies. The first incarnation of this occurred several years ago during the dot-com boom, when non-profit companies saw on-line advertising as a way of boosting their revenue. Sites (such as www.... More..
Arts & Humanities > International Writers & Literature Book analysis: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by Salman Rushdie: 1 of 1
On page 79 in Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Rushdie writes: Haroun had not forgotten what his father had said about Khattam-Shud. Too many fancy notions are turning out to be true,' he thought. At once Butt the Hoopoe answered, without moving its beak: A strange sort of Story Moon our Kahani would be, if storybook things we... More..
Sciences > Archaeology Activism and applied anthroplogy: 1 of 1
Private, Public, and Professional Voice: The Commodity of Culture in Applied Anthropology The relationship between activism and anthropology is something that all anthropologists must confront at some point. For this paper, the definition of an advocate will be one who attempts to promote a certain behavior or change regardi... More..
Sciences > Physical Anthropology Upper Midwest history: Middle and late Woodland period: 1 of 1
Middle Woodland (500BC - 200BC) There were two main subsistence patterns during the Middle Woodland. The first is an agricultural-hunting complex in the south. The second is a fishing-hunting complex in the north Great Lakes region (Cleland 1966:62). This fishing complex reached its full stature during the Late Woodland as t... More..
Sciences > Physical Anthropology Upper Midwest history: The early Archaic period: 1 of 1
Early Archaic (9,200BC - 6,800BC) The Early Archaic shares many similarities with the Late Paleoindian period. Populations remained in small bands of several dozen and continued a mobile hunter-gatherer subsistence strategy (Milner 2004:31). Interregional contact was essential in order to guarantee access to food during regi... More..
Arts & Humanities > Origins & Firsts in History Caral: The first city in the New World: 1 of 1
For years it was believed that the first city built in the Americas was in the Andes of South America. More recently, however, archaeologists are excavating a site over a thousand years older than anything previously discovered in an unlikely place: the desert plains of the Supe Valley in Peru, about ten miles away from the ... More..
Sciences > Physical Anthropology Prehistoric lithic tool production: 1 of 1
Projectile points served both a utilitarian and ritual purpose that determined not only their morphology but their manufacture, raw-material composition, and maintenance as well. Heavily used projectiles made out of a rare and valued but durable raw-material would be expected to be reworked more frequently than a projectile ... More..