ancestral
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The Oxford museum has more than 6,000 objects representing Naga culture, the largest collection in the world, and is giving back "ancestral human remains", mainly skulls, to the Naga people.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Instead, its position on the evolutionary family tree provides evidence about where the broader ancestral lineage may have originated.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
The agency isn’t seeking consultation as legally defined by CEQA, but “more comprehensive involvement of tribes in planning, construction and stewardship of their ancestral lands.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
His client fled to his ancestral homeland ahead of a mid-September sentencing date, a move that has become the talk of the state’s political class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
They slept three to a bed in our ancestral four-posters.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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