Notice2024-15833
Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe, AZ
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Published
July 18, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Center for Archeology and Society Repository (acting in place of the Arizona State University School of Human Evolution and Social Change) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 138 (Thursday, July 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58401-58402]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-15833]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038288; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State University, School
of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe, AZ
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Center for Archeology and Society
Repository (acting in place of the Arizona State University School of
Human Evolution and Social Change) has completed an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated
funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 19, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Allisen Dahlstedt, Arizona State University, School of Human
Evolution and Social Change, P.O. Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c889a4a4a1bbada6e68ca9a0a4bbbcadacbc88a9bbbde6adacbd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="89c8e5e5e0faece7a7cde8e1e5fafdecedfdc9e8fafca7ecedfc">[email protected]</span></a> and Christopher Caseldine, Arizona
State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, P.O. Box
872402, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402, telephone (480) 965-6957, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#216249534852554e514944530f624052444d45484f44614052540f444554"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5a19322833292e352a323f2874193b293f363e33343f1a3b292f743f3e2f">[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
Arizona State University (ASU) Center for Archaeology and Society
Repository (CASR), and additional information on the determinations in
this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the
inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, 20 individuals have been reasonably identified. The 364 lots of
associated funerary objects are: 98 lots of ceramics, 111 lots of
chipped stone, 26 lots of groundstone, three lots of shell, 38 lots of
faunal bone, 59 lots of samples, two
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lots of botanicals, three lots of daub, 23 lots of other stone, and one
lot of post/beam wood. In the spring semester of 1987, these human
remains and associated funerary objects were removed from the
Rancher[iacute]a de Bernier site in Maricopa County, AZ during a field
school conducted by Paul Minnis, then a research associate in the
Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University (ASU).
Archaeological evidence suggests the site was occupied between A.D.
630-870, during the Hohokam Pioneer to Colonial Periods. After the
field season, the collection was curated by the then Department of
Anthropology, now School of Human Evolution and Social Change, at ASU's
CASR.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
The Arizona State University CASR has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 20 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 364 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally 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 reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Ak-
Chin Indian Community; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-
Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona;
Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Reservation, New Mexico.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 August 19, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the ASU Center for
Archaeology and Society Repository 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 ASU Center for Archaeology and
Society Repository is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to
the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this
notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: July 10, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-15833 Filed 7-17-24; 8:45 am]
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