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Maeil Business Newspaper Korea's No. 1 Economic Media

23 days ago|

By Chip Colwell, Choi Hyeon-jae, Kim Byung-hwa |Maeil Business Newspaper Verified

What made humanity smarter was stone tools They made it easier to eat tough raw meat Energy once used for digestion shifted to the brain After the Industrial Revolution, people projected class onto objects They also triggered pollution, inequality and war Humans have even become dependent on the things they created Tools have been humanity's means of overcoming the tragedy embedded in our existence from the very beginning.

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The Disgraceful History of Erasing Black Cemeteries in the United States

6 months ago|

By Chip Colwell |Next City Verified

This article was originally published by The Conversation. The burying ground looks like an abandoned lot. Holding the remains of upward of 22,000 enslaved and free people of color, the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, Virginia, established in 1816, sits amid highways and surface roads. Above the expanse of unmarked graves loom a deserted auto shop, a power substation, a massive billboard. The bare ground of the cemetery is strewn with weeds.

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The Disgraceful History of Erasing Black Cemeteries in the United States

9 months ago|

By Chip Colwell |CounterPunch Verified

Holding the remains of upward of 22,000 enslaved and free people of color, the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, Virginia, established in 1816, sits amid highways and surface roads. Above the expanse of unmarked graves loom a deserted auto shop, a power substation, a massive billboard. The bare ground of the cemetery is strewn with weeds. In contrast, across the way sits Shockoe Hill Cemetery.

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Preserving Black burial history in the US

9 months ago|

By Chip Colwell, Lauren Abdel-Razzaq Verified |Bridge Detroit Verified

Chip Colwell, University of Colorado Denver The burying ground looks like an abandoned lot. Holding the remains of upward of 22,000 enslaved and free people of color, the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, Virginia, established in 1816, sits amid highways and surface roads. Above the expanse of unmarked graves loom a deserted auto shop, a power substation, a massive billboard. The bare ground of the cemetery is strewn with weeds. In contrast, across the way sits Shockoe Hill Cemetery.

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The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States

9 months ago|

By Chip Colwell |The Sun Chronicle Verified

The burying ground looks like an abandoned lot. Holding the remains of upward of 22,000 enslaved and free people of color, the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, Virginia, established in 1816, sits amid highways and surface roads. Above the expanse of unmarked graves loom a deserted auto shop, a power substation, a massive billboard. The bare ground of the cemetery is strewn with weeds. In contrast, across the way sits Shockoe Hill Cemetery.

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The history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States

9 months ago|

By Chip Colwell, Gaby Clark Verified, Alexander Pol Verified |Phys.org Verified

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The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States

9 months ago|

By Chip Colwell |Tolerance Canada

By Chip Colwell, Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Va., reveals the long pattern of Black Americans burying their dead in spaces that received few protections. Read complete article © The Conversation -

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The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States Original

9 months ago|

By Chip Colwell |The Conversation Verified

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The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States

9 months ago|

By Chip Colwell |The Caledonian-Record Verified

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The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States\

9 months ago|

By Chip Colwell
|All Politics Now

The burying ground looks like an abandoned lot. Holding the remains of upward of 22,000 enslaved and free people of color, the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, Virginia, established in 1816, sits amid highways and surface roads. Above the expanse of unmarked graves loom a deserted auto shop, a power substation, a massive billboard. The bare ground of the cemetery is strewn with weeds. In contrast, across the way sits Shockoe Hill Cemetery.

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When museums are battlegrounds in the culture wars\

9 months ago|

By Chip Colwell
|Taylor & Francis Online

Advanced search Human Organization Latest Articles Submit an article Journal homepage Full Article Figures & data References Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Read this article /doi/full/10.1080/00187259.2025.2567310?needAccess=true Abstract Following the end of World War II the U.S. Army Map Service distributed maps captured from the German military to research libraries across the United States, where they have remained largely hidden collections.

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A deeper sense of empathy in a time of protest\

9 months ago|

By Chip Colwell
|Royal Anthropological Institute Journals

References 2019. From Boas to Black Power: Racism, liberalism, and American anthropology. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2007. History, justice, and reconciliation. In Archaeology as a tool of civic engagement (eds) B.J. Little & P.A. Shackel, 23–46. Lanham: AltaMira. 1987. Convicted by the Holy Spirit: The rhetoric of fundamental Baptist conversion. American Ethnologist 14(1): 167–181. 2005. Why did they kill? Cambodia in the shadow of genocide. Berkeley: University of California Press. & 2018.

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LINKS - September 18th, 2024\

2 years ago|

By Elizabeth Svoboda Verified, Tom Roeper, Max Kozlov Verified, Chip Colwell
|Rhapsody Newsletter

Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human . LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American “Increasing empathy, says Stanford University social psychologist Jamil Zaki, will take more than teaching skills such as listening actively to others.

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How Did Humans Evolve to Use Everyday Tools?\

2 years ago|

By Chip Colwell
|Smithsonian Magazine Verified

In the emerald countryside of Wales sits a manor named Nantclwyd Hall. Built 400 years ago, the luxurious two-story brick sanctuary is painted peach and capped with a gently sloping slate-gray roof. Surrounding it are acres of neatly geometric gardens, adorned with ornate temples and whimsical structures that stand like stone jewels amid long fields of trimmed grass. One December evening in 1873, Nantclwyd Hall hosted a garden party. While staying at the manor, Major Walter C.

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So Much Stuff\

2 years ago|

By Chip Colwell
|press.uchicago.edu

How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control. Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into sharp-edged objects for slicing meat, making the first knives. This discovery resulted in a good meal, and eventually changed the fate of our species and our planet.

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“So Much Stuff” details a find in Boulder that fits an enduring historical narrative\

3 years ago|

By Chip Colwell
|NewsBreak

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"So Much Stuff" details a find in Boulder that fits an enduring historical narrative\

3 years ago|

By Chip Colwell, Kevin Simpson Verified
|The Colorado Sun Verified

In the fall of 2021, I drove from my home in Denver to the University of Colorado, Boulder, to see a spectacular archaeological find. At the university’s natural history museum, I met Douglas Bamforth, an archaeology professor. Bamforth recounted how, in the summer of 2008, Brant Turney was running a landscaping crew not far from campus. Working on the front yard of Patrick Mahaffy, Turney put his shovel into the ground, and about 18 inches down struck a hole about the size of a shoebox.

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Commentary: Gift shopping can cause angst - so what’s the point of giving presents?\

3 years ago|

By Chip Colwell
|CNA (Channel NewsAsia) Verified

DENVER, Colorado: Have you planned out your holiday gift giving yet? If you’re anything like me, you might be waiting until the last minute. But whether every single present is already wrapped and ready, or you’ll hit the shops on Christmas Eve, giving gifts is a curious but central part of being human. While researching my new book So Much Stuff, on how humanity has come to depend on tools and technology over the last 3 million years, I became fascinated by the purpose of giving things away.

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What’s the point of giving gifts?\

3 years ago|

By Chip Colwell
|Daily Maverick Verified

THE CONVERSATION Presents are about giving, receiving and reciprocating, and how this cycle strengthens relationships. Have you planned out your holiday gift giving yet? If you’re anything like me, you might be waiting until the last minute. But whether every single present is already wrapped and ready, or you’ll hit the shops on Christmas Eve, giving gifts is a curious but central part of being human.

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Chip Colwell: Why do we give gifts? An anthropologist explains\

3 years ago|

By Chip Colwell
|The Post-Star Verified

Giving gifts is a curious but central part of being human. While researching my new book, “So Much Stuff,” on how humanity has come to depend on tools and technology over the last 3 million years, I became fascinated by the purpose of giving things away. Why would people simply hand over something precious or valuable when they could use it themselves? To me as an anthropologist, this is an especially powerful question because giving gifts likely has ancient roots.

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Chip Colwell: Why do we give gifts? An anthropologist explains\

3 years ago|

By Chip Colwell
|Billings Gazette Verified

Giving gifts is a curious but central part of being human. While researching my new book, “So Much Stuff,” on how humanity has come to depend on tools and technology over the last 3 million years, I became fascinated by the purpose of giving things away. Why would people simply hand over something precious or valuable when they could use it themselves? To me as an anthropologist, this is an especially powerful question because giving gifts likely has ancient roots.

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