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40,000-year-old Gua Niah human bones arrive 'home' from US

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Repatriation process supervised by University of Florida anthropology expert and Sarawak Museum Department.

Sarawak today welcomed home its 40,000-year-old Gua Niah prehistoric human bones which had been in the United States since the 1960s.

The repatriation process of the bones was supervised by anthropology expert John Krigbaum from the University of Florida and was assisted by Sarawak Museum Department’s Archaeology Unit chief Mohd Sherman Sauffi. “The bone fragments were sent to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the US in 1966 for research purposes, before being transferred to the University of Florida in Gainesville in 2017.

 

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