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When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus

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IN 2022, the Art Crimes Division of the FBI became interested in a palm-size piece of carved ivory held by Emory Universitys art museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Carlos Museum in 2006 through what curators believed were legitimate channels. The Met Museum in New York, the Louvre in Paris, the Pergamon in Berlinmuseums across the U.S.

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A Call for Respect: Rethinking How Museums Care for Animal Remains

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.” Ward, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, has spent years working in museums, but this experience reinforced what he and many Indigenous scholars have long known—many institutions need to rethink how they handle animal remains. “We need to reframe the way we think about museums.

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Immersive 3D Technology Reshapes the Study of the Human Past

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Archaeology, the science of unearthing and interpreting humanity’s ancient past, is entering a transformative era. This groundbreaking work not only enhances documentation and analysis but also redefines how archaeologists interact with their data in real-time. ” The Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project site.

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Tracing Maize’s Roots: Evidence of Domestication in South America

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Archaeological specimens of semi-domesticated maize (corn) were found in baskets buried in caves in Peruaçu Valley. Archaeological evidence indicates that maize spread to southwestern Amazonia approximately 6,000 years ago before eventually arriving in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley some 1,500 years ago. Freitas, F.

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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

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Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. Archaeology, then, is both a physical activity out in the field, and an intellectual pursuit in the study or laboratory. Here the methods of archaeology and ethnography overlap. How were those pots used?

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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

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In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field. 998-27-40/14628.1.30

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The Cats Before the Cats: How Leopard Cats Lived Among Ancient Chinese Societies for Millennia

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A new genetic and archaeological study 1 has revealed that leopard cats ( Prionailurus bengalensis ), small wild felines native to East Asia, lived alongside people in China’s early agrarian societies for at least 3,500 years—only to disappear from human settlements centuries before the arrival of domestic cats via the Silk Road.