DENVER, Colorado, May 2 -- The History Colorado issued the following news release on May 1, 2025: * * * How History Colorado Assists Coloradans in Protecting the Places they Love DENVER -- May 1, 2025 -- In recognition of Colorado's Archeology & Historic Preservation Month, History Colorado is highlighting its many preservation programs that help Coloradans protect the places they love. From overseeing nominations to the State and National Registers of Historic Places, to reviewing federally   more

WASHINGTON, May 2 (TNSFR) -- Mercyhurst University, Erie, Pennsylvania has completed an inventory of human remains, determining that they are of Native American ancestry. The remains, representing one individual, were removed from an unknown location in Florida, possibly from a mound, and later acquired by Raymond C. Vietzen, an avocational archaeologist and founder of the Indian Ridge Museum in Elyria, Ohio. The remains were eventually transferred to Mercyhurst University in 2003, following  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 (TNSFR) -- Mercyhurst University, Erie, Pennsylvania has completed an inventory of human remains, determining that no lineal descendant or cultural affiliation can be reasonably traced to the remains. The remains, representing one individual of Native American ancestry, were removed from an unknown location in North Carolina, possibly in 1967 or 1969, and were later acquired by Raymond C. Vietzen, an avocational archaeologist and founder of the Indian Ridge Museum in Elyria,   more

DALLAS, Texas, May 2 -- Southern Methodist University issued the following news: * * * Federal tribe uses ancient DNA to establish genetic link to ancestral sacred sites The Picuris Pueblo initiated the research to show their ties to Chaco Canyon, the center of an Ancestral Pueblo regional interaction system and now a World Heritage site located in northwestern New Mexico. In a rare collaboration with geneticists and archaeologists, a federally recognized tribe in the United States has utili  more