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"Army Veteran Serves in MIA Recovery Missions as DHA Volunteer."

4/19/2024

From the News Release: "Nearly 80 years after being declared missing in action during World War II, Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Henry L. Stevens of Monroe, Alabama, has been identified.

"Stevens was accounted for on Sept. 15, 2023, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, following several recovery missions in Belgium by a team of volunteers with the University of Wisconsin Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project and the DPAA."

The article provides information about how Stevens was identified using anthropological, mitochondrial and autosomal DNA analyses and offers unique insights as to how Michael MacLaren, DHA liaison officer with U.S. Special Operations Command, relied on his military background to help with the recovery of the remains.

Source: Hammer, R. (2024, April 17). "Army Veteran Serves in MIA Recovery Missions as DHA Volunteer." U.S. Department of Defense. https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/3744697/army-veteran-serves-in-mia-recovery-missions-as-dha-volunteer/

Newcastle University Press Office (April 5, 2024): "Prehistoric henge reveals centuries-old sacred site in Lincolnshire"

4/15/2024

Newcastle University Press Office. (2024, April 5). "Prehistoric henge reveals centuries-old sacred site in Lincolnshire: Archaeologists from Newcastle University have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Crowland, Lincolnshire." Press Release. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2024/04/crowland/

Historic Site on Ocean Highway Nominated by Pocomoke Indian Nation

4/6/2024

From the press release: "PRINCESS ANNE, MD (November 17, 2023) – Members of the Pocomoke Indian Nation hosted a celebration today for the formal unveiling of a new roadside historical marker for the Manonoakin Indian Town Site on the grounds of the Somerset County Visitor Center and Rest Area in Princess Anne." Read the rest: https://www.roads.maryland.gov/mdotsha/pages/pressreleasedetails.aspx?newsId=4870&PageId=818

See also, Kast, S., Gerr, M. (2024, April 5). "Mayis: Native American oral histories from Maryland's Eastern Shore." WYPR: On the Record. https://www.wypr.org/show/on-the-record/2024-04-05/mayis-native-american-oral-histories-from-marylands-eastern-shore

Published Study (April 3, 2024): "Modern Blackfoot people descend from an ancient ice age lineage"

4/4/2024

Alex, B. (2024, April 3). "Modern Blackfoot people descend from an ancient ice age lineage: A new study of historic and modern genomes may help tribes protect ancestral lands and water rights." Science. https://www.science.org/content/article/modern-blackfoot-people-descend-ancient-ice-age-lineage

Link to original, Open Access published report:

Dorothy First Rider et al. Genomic analyses correspond with deep persistence of peoples of Blackfoot Confederacy from glacial times.Sci. Adv.10,eadl6595(2024).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adl6595

From the published report summary: "We show that the genomics of sampled individuals from the Blackfoot Confederacy belong to a previously undescribed ancient lineage that diverged from other genomic lineages in the Americas in Late Pleistocene times. Using multiple complementary forms of knowledge, we provide a scenario for Blackfoot population history that fits with oral tradition and provides a plausible model for the evolutionary process of the peopling of the Americas." Read the rest of the published journal article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl6595

"Army Veteran Serves in MIA Recovery Missions as DHA Volunteer."

Newcastle University Press Office (April 5, 2024): "Prehistoric henge reveals centuries-old sacred site in Lincolnshire"

​Historic Site on Ocean Highway Nominated by Pocomoke Indian Nation

Published Study (April 3, 2024): "Modern Blackfoot people descend from an ancient ice age lineage"

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