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Sometimes squirrels will even excavate and then rebury their nuts.
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Emma Bryce, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
Lawmakers in Ohio and Illinois passed legislation this year with the aim of removing barriers to repatriation for the museums and tribes alike, while allowing land to be set aside to rebury the thousands of ancestors in each state.
—Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 26 Dec. 2023
The Wabanaki tribal nations — an alliance of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Mi’kmaq — wanted to rebury the ancestral remains.
—Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023
In the meantime, archaeologists are flagging mummies exposed to elements and reburying them in the soil.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
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Emma Bryce, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
Lawmakers in Ohio and Illinois passed legislation this year with the aim of removing barriers to repatriation for the museums and tribes alike, while allowing land to be set aside to rebury the thousands of ancestors in each state.
—Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 26 Dec. 2023
The Wabanaki tribal nations — an alliance of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Mi’kmaq — wanted to rebury the ancestral remains.
—Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023
In the meantime, archaeologists are flagging mummies exposed to elements and reburying them in the soil.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
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“Rebury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebury. Accessed 16 Sep. 2024.
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