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) -- Mercyhurst University, located in Erie, Pennsylvania, has completed its inventory of human remains under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The remains, identified as those of at least one individual of Native American ancestry, were removed from a location in the vicinity of Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, on an unknown date. The remains were acquired by Raymond C. Vietzen, an avocational archaeologist and collector, who   more

WASHINGTON, May 8 (TNSFR) -- The Office of the State Archaeologist Bioarchaeology Program (OSA BP) at the University of Iowa has completed an inventory of human remains and determined cultural affiliation with several Native American tribes. The remains, representing at least one individual, were removed from an unknown location near St. Johns in Apache County, Arizona, possibly in the 1930s. The remains were subsequently transferred to the Greene County Historical Society in Jefferson, Iowa,   more