human remains

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/28/2022
  

  A Paris Museum Holds 18,000 Human Skulls, but Won't Say Whose

  By identifying the sources of skulls in its collection, France's Museum of Mankind fears it might open itself to demands for restitution. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  6/1/2022
  

  Draft Report Says Harvard Holds Remains of 19 Possible Enslaved People and Thousands of Native Americans

  "A leaked draft report by a Harvard committee says the university has the remains of at least 19 people who were likely enslaved and nearly 7,000 Native Americans, according to the Harvard Crimson."

• SOURCE: StonePages
  03-27-13
  

  Skulls of early humans carry signs of inbreeding

  Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors, new research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Washington University in St. Louis suggests.     The skull, known as Xujiayao 11, has an unusual perforation through the top of the brain case - an enlarged parietal foramen (EPF) or 'hole in the skull' - that is consistent with modern humans diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation in the homeobox genes ALX4 on chromosome 11 and MSX2 on chromosome 5. These specific genetic mutations interfere with bone formation and prevent the closure of small holes in the back of the prenatal braincase, a process that is normally completed within the first five months of fetal development. It occurs in about one out of every 25,000 modern human births.... 

• SOURCE: Reuters
  3-26-13
  

  Battle rages over bones of England's Richard III

  (Reuters) - King Richard III is at the center of a new fight over the location of his final resting place, just weeks after the remains of the last English king to die in battle were found underneath a council car park.Archaeologists announced one of the most remarkable finds in recent English history last month when they confirmed the discovery of the body of Richard, who was slain at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, during excavations in Leicester.