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Nesting Success of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles, Lepidochelys kempi, at Rancho Nuevo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 1982–2004 [PDF]
The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempi, was on the edge of extinction owing to a combination of intense egg harvesting and incidental capture in commercial fishing trawls.
Burchfield, P. M. +4 more
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ABSTRACT This article examined the decision‐making process and practice of a small academic museum as it strived to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Using the New Mexico State University Museum as a case study, it explores key questions related to NAGPRA compliance: How did the NMSU Museum determine that ...
Fumi Arakawa, Stanley Berryman
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The discovery of the medieval Jewish cemetery of Bologna, which took place between 2012 and 2014 and was announced in 2017, represents a significant achievement in recent Italian archaeology. The site, one of the largest in Europe from this period, bears
Valentina Di Stefano
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The bone battle: The attack on scientific freedom [PDF]
NAGPRA (lovely acronym) is a federal law, passed in 1989, that requires agencies receiving federal support to allow federally recognized tribes to obtain “culturally affiliated” Native American human remains and artifacts - in other words, to reclaim ...
Weiss, Elizabeth
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A physically based 3-D model of ice cliff evolution over debris-covered glaciers [PDF]
We use high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveys to document the evolution of four ice cliffs on the debris-covered tongue of Lirung Glacier, Nepal, over one ablation season.
Buri, P +5 more
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Combined effects of microplastics and nitrogen on bivalve‐mediated biogeochemical cycling
Abstract Estuary health is declining globally due to an increase in anthropogenic stressors including microplastics and nutrient loading. These stressors are often studied individually; however, it is vital to understand their combined effects on coastal ecosystems to inform ecosystem‐based management.
Saskia E. Foreman +3 more
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Archaeologists and Aborigines [PDF]
Aboriginal consultation and co-operation should be sought for exhibitions and the like - after all it is their people and their culture - otherwise we display a regrettable superior attitude and bad ...
Stockton, Eugene
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Physiological stress during early life can impede development, and signals of this are preserved in nonremodelling tissues such as dental enamel. This article describes nonspecific stress markers in the teeth of European (n = 30) and Southern Chinese (n = 15) adult migrants to New Zealand, and colony‐born children (n = 10) interred in four historic ...
Lucy A. Kavale‐Henderson +6 more
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Emic–Etic Perspectives on Southeast Asian Cultural Attitudes Surrounding Human Remains
ABSTRACT Community ethics and cultural attitudes vary across contexts in which professionals work with human remains. Southeast Asia is home to millions; thus, there are challenges when attempting to understand and articulate the diversity in cultures, ideologies, and ethics surrounding the dead.
Tatfeef Haque +19 more
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The Upper Jurassic Mengyin Formation sandstones are important targets for petroleum exploration in Dongying Depression of Bohai Bay Basin, Eastern China. Although the current burial depth of the Upper Jurassic Mengyin Formation sandstones is shallow (900&
Shaochun Yang +5 more
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