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Review: Bone found is adult human skull fragment
RIVERTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a bone found last week in West Michigan has been confirmed to be part of an adult human skull. The Mason County sheriff's department says the bone was among a group of 12 bones found Friday in...Tags: Culture, Riverton, Arts and Culture, Law Enforcement
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HELICOPTER PATROLS-WEST MICHIGAN After complaints, Grand Rapids copter patrols halt (Information in the following story is from: The Grand Rapids Press:MLive.com, http://www.mlive.com) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — State police say they're halting...Tags: Prosecution, Politics, General Motors Corp., Justice and Rights, Eminem
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Finalist for Archaeology Curator to Give Talk
Channel 2 NewsOne of three finalists for a job as curator at the University of Alaska Museum of the North is scheduled to speak at a public seminar this week. University of Alaska Fairbanks officials say Josh Reuther will speak about the archaeology of the...Tags: Culture, Archaeology, Arts and Culture
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'Cultural Politics of Seeds' at UCLA on May 17
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women will be presenting a symposium on the "Cultural Politics of Seeds" on May 17, as part of the Life (Un)Ltd project which explores the impact of recent developments in biotechnology and biosciences on feminist studies....
Tags: Conservation, Genetics, Arts and Culture, Geography, Science and Technology
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Jamestown settlers ate 14-year-old girl, researchers say
The early American settlers called it "the starving time," and accounts of the winter of 1609-1610 were so ghastly, and so morbid, that scholars weren't sure if the stories were true. George Percy, then president of the English settlement of Jamestown...
Tags: Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Colonial Williamsburg, Science and Technology, Culture, Dismemberment
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Scientists find cannibalism at American settlement in Jamestown
Scientists say they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists survived harsh conditions by resorting to cannibalism. On Wednesday, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and...
Tags: Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Science and Technology, Museums, Culture
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Pedro Ramirez Vazquez dies at 94; architect changed the face of Mexico City
Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, an architect who changed the face of Mexico City by designing a number of landmark modernist structures, died on Tuesday, his 94th birthday. The cause was pneumonia, according to Mexico's National Council for Culture and the Arts....
Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Museums, Politics, Mexico, Justice and Rights
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Jonathan Gold quiz: Dead meat on a stick
Did civilization begin at the moment when the first human impaled a bit of meat on a twig and charred it over a lightning fire? Claude Lévi-Strauss had a theory about it, we are sure, but we haven't taken an anthropology class for a long, long time. At...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture
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Field Museum again offers its curators early retirement
The Field Museum is offering scientists early retirement packages for the third time in five years as the institution struggles to cope with flat revenues and a high debt burden. The offer was distributed Friday to 16 of the museum's 27 curators —...
Tags: Job Layoffs, Museums, Career and Workplace, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment
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Field has mulled selling artifacts
When the Field Museum sold more than 30 works of 19th-century Western art for millions of dollars in 2004, it eased controversy by announcing plans to spend the proceeds on new artifacts and by holding on to four of the best paintings from the collection....
Tags: Artists, Museums, Politics, Religion and Belief, Zoology
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Archaeologists seek help finding Shawnee village in Clark County
A Shawnee village once located in Clark County remains all but lost to time, but state anthropologists hope landowners in the Indian Old Fields area will join in the hunt. The University of Kentucky’s Department of Anthropology and the Kentucky...
Tags: Culture, Archaeology, Arts and Culture
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Pro-migrant caravan leaves Calexico for cross country trip
Staff Writer, Copy EditorHOLTVILLE – Blamed for everything from high rates of unemployment to crime, illegal immigration has increasingly been a concern for the public as well as public officials. Yet it isn’t exclusively an American or Mexican problem. “To...Tags: Migration, Politics, Religion and Belief, Labor Legislation, Mexico
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