WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (TNSFR) -- The Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has completed an inventory of Native American human remains and associated funerary objects and determined cultural affiliation with multiple Tribal Nations in Arizona and New Mexico. The action is being carried out under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and involves ancestral remains representing at least 148 individuals, along with 30 associated more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (TNSFR) -- The Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has completed an inventory of Native American human remains collected from two federal Indian boarding schools and determined a cultural affiliation with the Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona. The inventory covers human remains representing at  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (TNSFR) -- Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has announced its intent to repatriate a collection of Native American cultural items after completing a review under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The museum determined that the materials meet the definitions of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony and are culturally affiliated with multiple Indian Tri more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (TNSFR) -- The Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has completed an inventory of Native American human remains collected at the Sherman Institute in Riverside County, California, and determined a cultural affiliation with the Tejon Indian Tribe. The inventory covers human remains representing at least two individuals, consisting of hair clippings taken from students at the Sherman Institute, a federal off-reservation boar more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (TNSFR) -- Princeton University, New Jersey, has completed an inventory of Native American human remains held in its collections and determined that the remains are culturally affiliated with multiple federally recognized Indian Tribes. The inventory identified human remains representing at least two individuals. One individual was removed from Marion County, Indiana and acquired in the late nineteenth century by Reverend R. T. Liston, a Presbyterian missionary. The remains  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (TNSFR) -- The Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, Andover, Massachusetts, has completed an inventory of Native American human remains and associated funerary objects and determined that they are culturally affiliated with the Shawnee Tribe. The inventory identified human remains representing at least one individual, along with 20 associated funerary objects consisting of chipped stone tools and ground stone tools. The remains and objects originated from Big Bone Cre more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (TNSFR) -- The Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, Andover, Massachusetts has completed an inventory of Native American human remains and associated funerary objects held in its collections and determined that they are culturally affiliated with the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma. The inventory documents human remains representing at least two individuals, along with 25 associated funerary objects. These objects include faunal remains, ceramic sherds, pipe fragments, mixed more PR

KOLN, Germany, Dec. 19 (TNSjou) -- The University of Cologne issued the following news release: * * * Study models the transition from Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in "PLOS One" * Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyse more PR

LONDON, England, Dec. 22 [Category: Arts/Cultural] -- The Museums Association posted the following news: * * * Welsh Government announces PS9m in major funding boost for culture * The Welsh Government has awarded a total of PS8.94m in funding to strengthen the country's museums, archives, libraries and cultural institutions. The award, which comes six months after the government launched its Priorities for Culture strategy, includes nearly PS2.2m for the Arts Council of Wales' Strategic Ca more PR