Anthropologists

Entire genome of extinct human decoded from finger bone

8 Feb 2012

London, Feb 8 (IANS) German anthropologists have decoded the entire genome sequence of a Denisovan, representative of the extinct Asian group related to Neanderthals, from a finger bone fossil, a study reveals.

Chumash: Awakening the stories that heal

7 Feb 2012

"Anthropologists have been at the service of colonialism." Chicana/Yaqui author Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez speaking at launch of Earth Wisdom: A California Chumash Woman.

Despite ceremony, NY fort's skeletons not buried

6 Feb 2012

For decades, tourists visiting this popular Adirondack village could gape at the skeletons of soldiers from nearby French and Indian War sites. Then in 1993, a somber reburial ceremony was held to finally put the remains to rest.