Anthro notes

AnthroNotes Volume 30

No. 1 Spring

2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANTHRONOTES!

AnthroNotes® firstappearedinthespringof1

979

aspart oftheNational ScienceFoundation-fundedGeorge

Wash-

ingtonUniversity/SmithsonianInstitutionAnthropologyfor Teacher'sProgram(1978-82).Publishedthreetimesayear, the6 pagenewslettershared teachingresourcesandactivi- ties,

upcoming

events,

and summer

opportunities.

AnthroNotesexpandedovertheyears,growingfromalo- calpublication toaninternationalonewithsubstantivear- ticles

on

anthropological research

and

classroom-tested teachingactivities.

Today

AnthroNotesreaches pre-college, university,

and museum

anthropologists

and

educators workinginprivate

and government

sectorsinall50^states

and

in50countriesworldwide.

The

AnthroNoteseditors choosetopics central to thefieldof anthropologyand contemporaryconcerns,then

solicitarticles

and

teachingactivitiesfromleadinganthro- pologists

and

educators. All ofourauthors

—

^{over 175}

—

have generously contributedtheirtime

and

expertise writ- ingarticles

on

cutting-edgeresearchandteachingactivities forclassroomuse.Allhave

worked

closelywithusthrough theyears;

we

thank

them

for theirpatiencewithouredito-

rialprocessaswellasfortheirexcellentcontributions.

AnthroNotes has experienced

some

majorchanges inrecentyears.In

2002

ourlong-time cartoonillustrator,

George

Washington

University anthropology professor

GREAT

MOMENTS ^IN ANTHROPOLOG Y

APCHACOLOtilSTS DISCOVER THE 5IFFERENCE- BETWEEN

AB-SOt-UTE ANb RELATIVE DATING TECHNIQUES...

Robert L.

Humphrey,

passed away. Bob's cartoons con- tributed

humor and

insight into theworld ofanthropol- ogywhilealsoprovidingthepublicationwithauniquevi- suallook.

We

^{continuetoinclude}

some

ofBob'scartoons inAnthroNotes,as

we

haveinthisparticularissue.

In2008,theAnthroNoteseditorial

team

changed composition.

One

ofthe four original editors,

JoAnne

Lanouette

— ^who

^helpedcreate

^and

^teachinthe

^GWU/SI

teacher training

program —

^retired.

^High

^{schoolanthro-}

pology teacherCarolyn Gecan, along-timeAnthroNotes supporter, joinedAlison Brooks,

Ann

Kaupp,

and Ruth

Selig asthefourtheditor. [Read

"Comings and

Goings" in theSpring

2008

issue, p. 19.]

We've

had

funfor

30

years

and

alwayshave ap- preciated the

many

positive notes (or today, emails) re- ceived from teachers

and

otherreaders.

Our

authors are especiallypleased

when we

^cantell

them

thattheir articles

havebeenrequestedforreprintinginanthropologyread- ers, college texts,

and

other compilations for classroom use. In 2002,

we

werehonoredto receivetheSocietyfor

American

Archaeology's

Award

for Excellence in Public Education.

The

award, citingAnthroNotes^as well as the 1998editionofAnthropologyExplored, theBestofSmithsonian AnthroNotes, reads inpart "forpresentingarchaeological

and

anthropologicalresearch tothepublicinan engaging

and

accessiblestyle."In

2004

asecond, revisededitionof the

book

waspublishedunderthe

name

AnthropologyEx-

plored:Revised

and

Expanded'(seenextpage).

We would

liketothanktheSmithsonian'sNational

Museum

^ofNatural History

and

particularlytheDepart-

ment

of

Anthropology

for its strong

support

of AnthroNotes.

We

thankyou,ourcontributors

and

readers, forbelievinginourpublication

and

itsroleinpromoting thestudyofanthropologybyteachers

and

studentsseek- ing tounderstandtheirincreasinglycomplex,multicultural world.

The

Editors

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