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Linda Rugg on Native American repatriation at...

July 2, 2021
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Chance phone call keeps alive scholar’s...

May 24, 2021
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World-renowned anthropologist Paul Rabinow...

April 23, 2021
Jessica Johnson, a doctoral student in Egyptology, uses a Vive Cosmos VR headset to explore a recreation of the 2,500-year-old tomb of Psamtik.

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March 8, 2021
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March 2, 2021
Morino Baca, a Native American graduate student in public health, works on an archaeology project in Pueblo de Abiquiú, 20 miles from Española in New Mexico where he grew up. At left, UC Berkeley student Jasper Sundeen. (Photo by Danny Sosa Aguilar)

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February 4, 2021
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September 11, 2020
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January 27, 2020
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