WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (TNSFR) -- The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has completed an inventory of 354 associated funerary objects and determined a cultural affiliation with the Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of Colusa Indian Community, Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation and Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation. The objects, which include lithics, baked clay, battered stone, a stone bead and fire-affected rock, were excavated between 1999 and 2001 during work along Highway 29 in Napa City. Alth more PR

GREENVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 3 -- Tusculum University posted the following news: * * * Israeli to discuss the land and history of Israel during presentation at Tusculum University * GREENEVILLE - An Israeli tour guide with extensive knowledge of his country will give a talk about the Holy Land during an upcoming visit to Tusculum University. Dr. Scott Hummel, left, and Mishi Neubach stand in front of the Tusculum Arch in 2022. Mishi Neubach will present "Encountering Israel with an Israe more PR

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, Feb. 3 -- Northern Arizona University posted the following news: * * * How animals have shaped us * Humans have lived alongside animals for tens of thousands of years-hunting them, taming them, worshipping them and, more recently, dressing them in sweaters and giving them Instagram accounts. Anthropologists have been turning their attention to this relationship-not just how humans have shaped animals, but how animals have shaped what it means to be human. Department of  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (TNSFR) -- The Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, Andover, Massachusetts, intends to repatriate 320 cultural items affiliated with the Ak-Chin Indian Community, Gila River Indian Community, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and Tohono O'Odham Nation of Arizona. The items include sacred objects and unassociated funerary objects removed from various locations across Arizona. The collection consists of 95 unassociated funerary objects and 225 sacred objects, inc more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (TNSFR) -- The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, has announced its intent to repatriate 10 lots of unassociated funerary objects to the Delaware Nation, Oklahoma, Delaware Tribe of Indians and Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin. This notice details items recovered from several sites in Sussex County, New Jersey, and Pike County, Pennsylvania. The 10 lots include a variety of cultural items such as pottery, pipes, groundstone, chipped stone, faunal remains, and pe more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (TNSFR) -- The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, has announced its intent to repatriate 11 lots of unassociated funerary objects to the Delaware Nation, Oklahoma, Delaware Tribe of Indians and Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin. This notice, published by the National Park Service on Feb. 3, 2026, identifies cultural items removed from eight Pennsylvania counties. The 11 lots include personal adornments, pipes, pottery, groundstone, chipped stone, and metal trade  more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Feb. 3 -- Texas A&M University posted the following news: * * * Texas A&M joins effort to recover historic World War II aircraft * A team from Texas A&M University is helping in an effort to recover and preserve a World War II aircraft that has been submerged in the Pacific Ocean for more than 80 years. Texas A&M University's Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation (CMAC) will join the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation, the Republic of the Marshall Islands Cultur more PR