The latest search for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has ended with 59 graves found and seven sets of remains exhumed, according to Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck.
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Forensic entomologist Paola Magni is urging forensic professionals to consider the activity of insects beside blow flies and beetles—specifically ants.
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Violence was a consistent part of life among ancient communities of hunter-gatherers, according to a new study that looked for signs of trauma on 10,000-year-old skeletal remains from burial sites in northern Chile.
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The team documented intentional post-mortem modifications to the bones, including fractures and scrapes that might have resulted from efforts to extract marrow and other tissues.
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David Brown has wanted to be an archaeologist since he was 8-years-old. He said he loved the idea of uncovering ancient artifacts and bringing history back to life. But Brown first had a different mission to fulfill
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Work to identify unmarked burials—at the invitation of the Saint Damien Burial Council on Moloka?i—will be ramping up, thanks to a $168,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to the University of Hawai?i–West O?ahu.
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A multidisciplinary team—engineers, soil scientists, and biologists—digs in for a deeper look at what happens to the soil underneath a decomposing body.
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The initial analysis of the Iceman's genome revealed genetic traces of Steppe Herders. However that is inaccurate as the original sample had been contaminated with modern DNA.
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A new DNA study has nuanced the picture of how different groups intermingled during the European Stone Age, but also how certain groups of people were actually isolated.
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A first-of-its-kind analysis of historical DNA ties tens of thousands of living people to enslaved and free African Americans who labored at an iron forge in Maryland known as Catoctin Furnace soon after the founding of the United States.
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