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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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The Case of Hostile Terrain ’94 at the University of Oregon 

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At the University of Oregon, we built a collaborative team of faculty and museum staff to bring students, campus, and community stakeholders together in planning and implementing an exhibition of an installation of the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) Hostile Terrain 94 exhibition.

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Early Neolithic Diet in Scandinavia: Evidence from Frydenlund

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At the Early Neolithic site of Frydenlund, Denmark, archaeologists have unearthed clues that challenge traditional assumptions about how ancient farmers used grains. Andersen, Moesgaard Museum “We found no signs of cereal grinding on the stones,” says archaeobotanist Dr. Welmoed Out from Moesgaard Museum.

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A Poetics of Liberation: An Imagined Archive

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The project saw researchers, practitioners, and museum experts unpacking the legacy of the morbid practice of collecting ancestral human remains that was popular in Euro-American circles in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Survival Notes , I recognize the tradition that so many women before me started. The archive was a burial site.

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When Did Humans Start Talking? Genomic Evidence Pushes Language Back to 135,000 Years Ago

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We see a lag between when the genetic evidence tells us language capacity was present and when symbolic artifacts appear in the record," notes Ian Tattersall, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study. Fossils do not speak, and ancient DNA does not carry recordings of conversations.

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Gathering Firewood—and Redefining Land Stewardship—at Bears Ears

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Since European contact, Indigenous people have struggled to protect the lands —which outsiders often describe as a vast “ outdoor museum ”—from vandalism and desecration, organizing through formal and informal channels for the protection of the Bears Ears landscape. It’s too early to tell the overall impacts of this plan’s implementation.

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

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Morphological characterization of a teosinte sample at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in the United States. ” The next step involves advanced archeogenetic analysis to sequence the full genome of the Peruaçu maize, which could definitively place it within the global maize phylogenetic tree.