Harlyn Geronimo, great-grandson of the legendary Apache warrior, and others brought suit under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in an effort to resolve whether or not Geronimo’s skull is at Skull and Bones, a club at Yale University.

The Brooklyn Museum is highlighting its fakes in an exhibition “Unearthing the Truth,” which displays real fourth-century A.D sculptures alongside fakes bought on the art market after WWII.

Does the “excavation” of a 1991 Ford van by Bristol University archaeologists mark thee beginning of a new field of study?

A new edition of UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing has been launched online. “Some of the data are especially worrying: out of the approximately 6,000 existing languages in the world, more than 200 have become extinct during the last three generations, 538 are critically endangered, 502 severely endangered, 632 definitely endangered and 607 unsafe.”

Among a huge number of Pleistocene fossils unearthed at the site of an old parking structure in Los Angeles is a nearly intact mammoth, named Zed by researchers. “This gives us the opportunity to get a detailed picture of what life was like 10,000 to 40,000 years ago,” says John Harris of the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea tar pits.

The American Anthropological Association has changed its code of ethics to strengthen protections of people who are studied and promote free dissemination of scholarship.

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