The remains of more than 110,000 Native American, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Natives’ ancestors are still held by museums, universities and federal agencies.
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Violence and warfare were widespread in many Neolithic communities across Northwest Europe, a period associated with the adoption of farming, new research suggests.
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Researchers describe genomes from 10 individuals up to 7,500 years old that help to fill the gap and show gene flow from people moving in the opposite direction from North America to North Asia.
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A group of 21 Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars has published a commentary (Kowal et al.) suggesting that Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. do not sufficiently consider the interests of Indigenous communities.
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The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites.
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The remains of a human skeleton that were discovered on a footpath on the north Cornish coast may have belonged to a shipwrecked sailor.
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When experts talk about the “CSI Effect,” it almost always has a negative connotation. But, television shows and characters mean different things to different people.
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Currently, all autopsies in Idaho are conducted in Boise, and the new center will help to expedite cases throughout the region.
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A new certificate program at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is a great option for law enforcement professionals, those looking to enter the field or those in the medicolegal professions relating to both medicine and law.
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One of the keys to bringing home unidentified military remains, including POW/MIAs and the more than 81,500 soldiers unaccounted for in conflicts dating back to World War II, is using science to determine where home might be.
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Two sets of the 66 remains found in the past two years have been confirmed to have gunshot wounds, though none have been identified or confirmed to be victims of the massacre.
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Moses’ research aims to answer more than questions about an individual’s circumstances at death. It also tries to explain the different actions and motivations of people who commit homicide.
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At least two clandestine graves holding human remains were found in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, state authorities said earlier this week.
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The coffins, then the remains, will be examined to see if they match reports from 1921 that the victims were males buried in plain caskets.
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A team of scientists based in Germany have examined a 17th century child mummy, using cutting-edge science alongside historical records to shed new light on Renaissance childhood.
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