United States: Interview: Stephen Lekson: Giving Back The Bones

United States: Interview: Stephen Lekson: Giving Back The Bones Keith Kloor, 2010   For an archaeologist, the job of removing objects from museums and returning them to Native Americans can be by turns stressful, saddening, and rewarding. In the past 6 years, Stephen Lekson, curator of anthropology at the University of Colorado's Museum of Natural History in Boulder, has overseen the repatriation of 553 human remains and 800 funerary objects to southwestern tribes, mostly Puebloan...

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