Notice2022-26798
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, Andover, MA
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Published
December 9, 2022
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology (RSPI) has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on October 31, 2007. This notice amends the minimum number of individuals, number of associated funerary objects, and cultural affiliation of human remains and associated funerary objects removed from Bolivar County, MS.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 236 (Friday, December 9, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75654-75655]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-26798]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034986; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Robert S. Peabody
Institute of Archaeology, Andover, MA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; amendment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Robert S. Peabody Institute of
Archaeology (RSPI) has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion
published in the Federal Register on October 31, 2007. This notice
amends the minimum number of individuals, number of associated funerary
objects, and cultural affiliation of human remains and associated
funerary objects removed from Bolivar County, MS.
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DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after January 9, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, Robert S. Peabody Institute of
Archaeology, Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810,
telephone (978) 749-4490, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7f0d08171a1a131a0d3f1e111b10091a0d511a1b0a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="aedcd9c6cbcbc2cbdceecfc0cac1d8cbdc80cbcadb">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
RSPI. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the amendments
and determinations in this notice, including the results of
consultation, can be found in the inventory or related records held by
the RSPI.
Amendment
This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (72 FR 61674, October 31,
2007). Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of Inventory
Completion has not occurred. Additional human remains and associated
funerary objects from Bolivar County, MS, held by the RSPI were
identified during an inventory project. Review of RSPI records
indicates that consultation did not occur prior to the publication of
the Notice of Inventory Completion in 2007. Consultation was conducted
in 2021 and 2022, providing evidence for reassessment of cultural
affiliation. This notice amends the minimum number of individuals and
the number of associated funerary objects as listed in the original
notice. Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual removed
from Bolivar County, MS, were added to the inventory. In addition, 751
associated funerary objects removed from Bolivar County, MS, were added
to the inventory. Also, the cultural affiliation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice are amended.
From Alligator Mounds in Bolivar County, MS, eight individuals were
removed (previously identified as seven individuals). The 775
associated funerary objects (previously identified as 24 associated
funerary objects) are 24 bone awls, 44 bifaces, 199 faunal remains, two
carbon samples, four chipped stone objects, 14 cobbles, three
concretions, 24 cores, two fragments of daub, one drill, four fragments
of fire cracked rock, 71 flakes, one unknown cylindrical object, one
game piece, one broken stone fragment, one flat stone, two sharpening
stones, one pitted stone, six fragments of a pill-shaped ceramic
object, four modified animal bones, two pecked stones, nine charred
seeds or nuts, 26 pebbles, one pendant, one perforator, two pieces
petrified wood, two pigment stones, one pipe fragment, one plummet
fragment, four rectangular polishing stones, six projectile point
preforms, two scrapers, 34 shell fragments, 269 ceramic sherds, four
unmodified stones, and two quartz fragments.
Determinations (As Amended)
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the RSPI has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this amended notice
represent the physical remains of eight individuals of Native American
ancestry.
<bullet> The 775 objects described in this amended notice are
reasonably believed to have been placed with or near individual human
remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite or
ceremony.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Quapaw Nation (previously
listed as The Quapaw Tribe of Indians); The Muscogee (Creek) Nation;
and the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after January 9, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the RSPI must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The RSPI is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to
the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10,
10.13, and 10.14.
Dated: November 30, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-26798 Filed 12-8-22; 8:45 am]
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