ancestral

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His thoughts turned to the ancestral home of his people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Thousands of families are still hoping to reclaim ancestral land that was taken by the communists after World War II, with some claiming ownership over land allocated to the project.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

The findings build on earlier ancient DNA studies published in 2021 that first proposed the idea that modern Japanese people descend from three major ancestral sources instead of two.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

Daniel Felix, 10, looks out from atop a gargantuan stump of an old-growth redwood on his tribe’s ancestral land.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

First, except for the decorations on the pots, the pots themselves and their associated cultural paraphernalia are similar to the cultural remains found at Indonesian and Philippine sites ancestral to modern Austronesian-speaking societies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond