GOLD COAST, Australia, Feb. 13 (TNSjou) -- Griffith University issued the following news: * * * Archaeologist behind First Australians occupation record joins Griffith backed by key philanthropic appointment Rock Art Australia, a leading philanthropic organisation dedicated to protecting and advancing research into Australia's rock art heritage, has appointed Professor Chris Clarkson as the Rock Art Australia Professorial Chair in Rock Art and Archaeology at Griffith University. The appointm more PR

LEIDEN, The Netherlands, Feb. 13 (TNSjou) -- Leiden University issued the following news: * * * DNA study reveals remarkable stability in prehistoric Low Countries populations For thousands of years, the prehistoric communities of the Low Countries followed their own path compared with the rest of Europe. This unique region later played a key role in major European shifts. An international research team has now published these findings in Nature. While large-scale migrations and rapid geneti more PR

LONDON, England, Feb. 13 [Category: BizMedia] -- Civil Society Media, an independent media company that says it is dedicated to supporting the charity sector, posted the following news: * * * Luke Hall: 'Charities are unfairly penalised in the tax system' * Since its establishment in 1982, the Charity Tax Group (CTG) has campaigned for the fairer tax treatment of charities to allow them to maximise the public benefit impact of their work. Early on, CTG and others successfully lobbied for i more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (TNSFR) -- The Mississippi Department of Archives and History intends to repatriate four lots of cultural items to the Chickasaw Nation. This decision dentifies the objects as unassociated funerary objects removed from the Owl Creek/Shiloh Church Mounds site in Chickasaw County, Mississippi. The collection consists of one lot of ceramics, one lot of faunal remains, one lot of lithics, and one lot of organic materials. These items were excavated in 1935 by MDAH archaeologist  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (TNSFR) -- State University of New York Buffalo campus Department of Anthropology has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects recovered from Davenport Farm in Ulster County, New York. The inventory identifies the remains of at least four individuals of Native American ancestry. These individuals were removed from the Davenport Farm site, located on land once owned by Bruce Davenport, during the mid-20th century. Archaeologist Mary Ann Niemczyc more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (TNSFR) -- The University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist Bioarchaeology Program has completed an inventory of human remains that show a cultural affiliation to one of 26 Native American tribes. This announcement involves ancestral remains originally recovered from Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico. The inventory identified a partial cranium and a right femur representing one middle-aged adult male. The remains were donated to the University of Northern I more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (TNSFR) -- The University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist Burials Program has completed an inventory of human remains that show a cultural affiliation to one of two Native American tribes. The inventory identified a single human tooth representing one juvenile or very young adult. The molar was originally recovered in 1974 during excavations involving the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After the initial recovery, the materials were managed by the U.S. Army Corps o more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (TNSFR) -- The Western Washington University Archaeological Repository intends to repatriate 12,556 cultural items to three Washington state tribes. The museum determined that these belongings, consisting of sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony, hold ongoing historical and cultural importance central to the tribes. The collection, known as the Woodhaven Olcott Collection, includes adzes, choppers, cores, debitage, flakes, hammerstones, lithic bifaces, and scraper more PR