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In a story carried Tuesday over BBC News, its Latin America correspondent Daniel Schweimler reported that a number of leaders of the indigenous community have filed a legal complaint in Buenos Aires with the country's Supreme Court, charging that more than 20 members of the Toba, Wichi, and Piraga peoples have died of hunger or malnutrition in recent months. In certain respects, the government is working very diligently to improve its stained reputation, and there have been some successes.\n Due, however, to the fact that pockets of Afro-Argentines did remain as a distinct community (generally having only partial African ancestry), a sizeable portion of "white" Argentines-10 percent according to a study in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology-actually have ascertainable Afro-A...
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Founded in 1902, the American Anthropological Association is the world's largest professional organization of anthropologists and others interested in anthropology, with an average annual membership of more than 10,000. The Arlington, VA-based association represents all specialties within anthropology-cultural anthropology, biological (or physical) anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and applied anthropology. The next stops on the RACE exhibit tour will be Berkeley, California, Lawrence Hall of Science and St. Louis Missouri Historical Society History Museum, in January 2010. Launched in 2007, the exhibit tour was originally scheduled to conclude at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in 2011, but due to popular demand has been extended until 2014. Due to further posit...
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... Family Studies, Pastoral Counseling, Anthropology, Gerontology, Therapeutic Recreation, Educatio..., Human Resources, Leisure Studies, Physical Educa tion, Law Enforcement, Liberal Arts. . ...
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Working as an arson investigator for the Pennsylvania State Police years ago, Robert Ryhal would just put human bones found at the scene into a bag or box and cart them away. Even today, investigators sometimes use backhoes to dig up the ground where human remains are believed to be resting, said Dennis C. Dirkmaat, chairman of the Department of Applied Forensic Sciences and director of the master's of Forensic and Physical Anthropology Program at Mercyhurst College in Erie.
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GOULDSBORO - From a small archaeological site overlooking Frenchman Bay, Brian Robinson's eyes sparkled as he explained how layers - no matter how small - are simply steps to a larger story. The University of Maine professor of archaeology and physical anthropology could speak for hours about bone fragments and the many other small pieces of history that he has unearthed in the past few weeks.
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... Affairs, Washington, DC, and in the physical custody of the. U.S. Department of the Interior, N..., dendrochronology, and a physical anthropology examination, the site (5MV1012) and human remains ...
