/tags/anthropology anthropology en-US WLRN Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:00:27 GMT /news/2020-12-09/youre-possessing-our-history-seminole-tribe-could-get-back-remains-of-ancestors-taken-by-smithsonian After the Seminole Tribe of Florida spent years pushing the National Museum of Natural History to return human remains to the tribal nation, the museum finally changed its official policy on repatriations. Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:00:27 GMT /news/2020-12-09/youre-possessing-our-history-seminole-tribe-could-get-back-remains-of-ancestors-taken-by-smithsonian Daniel Rivero /npr-breaking-news/2018-01-03/ancient-human-remains-document-migration-from-asia-to-america A discovery of the remains of two infants in central Alaska provides evidence of the earliest wave of people to move from Asia into the Americas. Wed, 03 Jan 2018 20:54:00 GMT /npr-breaking-news/2018-01-03/ancient-human-remains-document-migration-from-asia-to-america Christopher Joyce /news/2017-07-31/going-home-to-a-place-theyve-never-been-cuba For a lot of first-generation Cuban-Americans, Cuba is almost a myth. Grandparents talk about it at family gatherings, always insisting the music, the… Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:05:35 GMT /news/2017-07-31/going-home-to-a-place-theyve-never-been-cuba /npr-breaking-news/2017-04-26/new-evidence-suggests-humans-arrived-in-the-americas-far-earlier-than-thought Until now, the earliest signs of humans in the Americas dated back about 15,000 years. But new research puts people in California 130,000 years ago. Experts are wondering whether to believe it. Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:00:00 GMT /npr-breaking-news/2017-04-26/new-evidence-suggests-humans-arrived-in-the-americas-far-earlier-than-thought Christopher Joyce