WASHINGTON, May 8 (TNSFR) -- The Center for the History of Medicine in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, has completed an inventory of human remains under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The remains of two individuals, believed to be of Native American ancestry, were removed from a mound in present-day North and South Dakota, also known as the Dakota Territory, sometime between 1878 and 1891. The remai  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, May 8 -- Florida State University issued the following news: * * * 5 Questions with Mark McCoy: War and Inequality By McKenzie Harris Mark McCoy is a professor of anthropology and archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology at Florida State University whose research focuses on ancient societies of the Pacific Islands -- including Hawai'i, New Zealand and Rapa Nui -- and the relationship between people and their environments. McCoy is part of an international, multi  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 7 [Category: Political] -- Santa Fe Institute posted the following news release: * * * How a 5,000-year-old technology, politics, and culture led to modern wealth inequality Five millennia ago, wealth inequality -- which had stayed roughly constant for thousands of years -- exploded. It has stayed constant, albeit much higher, ever since. "It's really amazing," says SFI Professor Samuel Bowles. "There was a period of a thousand years where wealth inequality double  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 (TNSFR) -- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (PMAE) at Harvard University has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and confirmed a cultural affiliation with multiple Native American tribes. The remains, which represent at least 23 individuals, were removed from sites in the Missouri River region near Bismarck, North Dakota, and in the Dakota Territory (modern-day North and South Dakota). These remains were collected in the ear  more