Modern-day studies have revealed traces of Taíno DNA in individuals throughout Cuba, although the population was largely destroyed as a culture and civilization after 1550.

Modern-day Rangers ( as well as their predecessors ) do not have a prescribed uniform, per se, although the State of Texas does provide guidelines as to appropriate Ranger attire, including a requirement that Rangers wear clothing that is western in nature.

Modern-day Chinese people sometimes refer to themselves as the " Descendants of Yan and Yellow Emperor ", although non-Han minority groups in China may have their own myths or not count as descendants of the emperor.

Modern-day Iroquois Doug George-Kanentiio sums up his perception of the Iroquois property view: The Iroquois have " no absolute right to claim territory for purely monetary purposes.

Modern-day chalga lyrics and music videos have overwhelmingly liberal sexual content.

Modern-day versions of kuy teav featuring beef, chicken or seafood ( rather than the original pork broth ) have also evolved, but the plethora of garnishes that distinguish kuy teav remains the same.

Modern-day efforts have been made and are still ongoing to reconstruct the tracks of known hurricanes and to identify initially undetected storms.

Modern-day weasels have short legs and can only achieve short bursts of speed.

Modern-day immigrants from India ( mostly Sindhi merchants ) are to be found on Saint-Martin / Sint Maarten, St. Thomas, Curaçao and other islands with duty-free commercial capabilities, where they are active in business.

Honored in several Halls of Fame, Bascom is now known as the " Father of the Modern-day Bareback Rigging.

Modern-day Kingston is believed to be the site of several bloody battles during King Philip's War from 1675-1676.

Modern-day usage has expanded to several uses for the term.

Modern-day Tubas was founded in the late 19th century during Ottoman rule in Palestine, when groups of Arabs belonging to the Daraghmeh clan — mostly shepherds and farmers who lived in the Jordan Valley — migrated northward to the site because of its fertile ground, proximity to several springs, and its high elevation compared to the Jordan Valley and Wadi al-Far ' a plain ; Mount Gerizim was visible from the area.

Modern-day Shintō Musō-ryū is practiced within several large independent organizations which includes the European Jodo Federation, Nihon Jōdōkai, International Jōdō Federation, International Jodo Association, Sei Ryu Kai to name a few.

Van Imhoff was promoted several times within the company before being appointed colonial governor in Ceylon ( Modern-day Sri Lanka ) on July 23, 1736.

Modern-day travellers are advised that admission tickets to sit on the arena's stone steps are much cheaper to buy than tickets giving access to the padded chairs available on lower levels.

Modern-day Nazareth is nestled in a natural bowl which reaches from 1, 050 feet ( 320 m ) above sea level to the crest of the hills about 1, 600 feet ( 490 m ).

Modern-day American reprints began with " The Bar None Ranch " ( 1940 ) which appeared in Walt Disney Comics Digest # 40 ( 1973 ).

Modern-day Britwell, which has the well-defined geographic boundaries of Farnham Lane ( in the north ), Lower Britwell Road and Haymill Road ( to the west ), Whittaker Road and Northborough Road ( south ) and Long Readings Lane ( east ), was created as a large overspill housing estate for bombed-out Londoners at the end of the Second World War.

Modern-day National Route 6, which runs through Ōkuma, generally follows the same route as the Iwaki-Sōma Road.

Modern-day handsets usually contain the phone's microphone as well, but in early telephones the microphone was mounted directly on the telephone itself, which often was attached to a wall at a convenient height for talking.

File: Barbara Summer at Porn Star Karaoke 7. jpg | Modern-day interpretation of a Western outfit in which a bandanna has been made into a tank top

Modern-day Exxon, Mobil, Atlantic Richfield, Chevron, Sohio, Amoco and Continental Oil all trace their ancestry to various parts of Standard Oil.

Modern-day Interstate 80 closely follows the path of the railroad, with one exception.

Modern-day enthusiasts of King Richard III thereby accuse Morton of inventing the account whereby Richard murdered Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York and committed other crimes attributed to him.

Modern-day Trento is a cosmopolitan city, with highly-developed and organized modern social services.

Modern-day combines can be adjusted to work with any grain crop, and many unusual seed crops.

Modern-day genetic studies of the Y-chromosome suggest a close ethnic kinship between the Hutu and other neighboring Bantu peoples, particularly the Tutsi.

Modern-day commentators and Neopagans sometimes identify Boann with the goddess Brigid, or believe Boann to be Brigid's mother ; however there are no Celtic sources that describe her as such.

Modern-day Pottstown is established on land originally deeded to William Penn.

Modern-day Hidalgo was first settled by Spanish colonists led by José de Escandón in about 1749.

Modern-day New Jersey police officers inherit their authority from the constable.

Modern-day historians believe that he had a direct hand in its organization because of his role in the Propaganda Movement and his eminent position in Philippine Masonry ; most of the Katipunan's founders were freemasons.

Modern-day Vehicle Identification Number systems are based on two related standards, originally issued by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) in 1979 and 1980 ; ISO 3779 and ISO 3780, respectively.

Modern-day Latakia Governorate and Tartus Governorate roughly encompass what was the Alawite State, both governorates having majority Alawite populations ; however, parts of modern-day Al-Suqaylabiyah District, Masyaf District, Talkalakh District and Jisr ash-Shugur District ( now in neighbouring governorates ) also belonged to it.

* Garrett TA ( 2007 ), Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Implications for a Modern-day Pandemic, Retrieved from http :// www. stlouisfed. org / community_development / assets / pdf / pandemic_flu_report. pdf on 11 / 4 / 2010

Modern-day statute law is made by the bicameral National Parliament — more commonly know by its Irish name, the Oireachtas.

Modern-day possession of guns operates as follows: everything that isn't prohibited under section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 must be held on a section 1 firearms certificate, unless it is a section 2 shotgun and can thus go on a Shot Gun Certificate.

Modern-day descendants of those original refugees often employ the term " United Empire Loyalist ", sometimes using " U. E.

Modern-day Construction involves creating awesome structures that can show the beauty and creativity of the human intellect.

Through satellite images and ground investigations, archaeologists have detected at least 8 main roads that together run for more than 180 miles ( ca 300 km ), and are more than 30 feet ( 10 m ) wide.

Through analysis of various strontium isotopes, archaeologists have realized that much of the timber that composes Chacoan construction came from a number of distant mountain ranges, indicative also of the Chaco Road's economic significance.

In the four centuries since their disappearance, the Roanoke colonists have been the subject of a mystery that still challenges historians and archaeologists as one of America's oldest.

The reactions of professional archaeologists to archaeoastronomy have been decidedly mixed.

Yet archaeologists have increasingly come to incorporate many of the insights from archaeoastronomy into archaeology textbooks and, as mentioned above, some students wrote archaeology dissertations on archaeoastronomical topics.

These archaeologists suggested that defensibility was never a major concern in the siting of a broch, and argued that they may have been the " stately homes " of their time, objects of prestige and very visible demonstrations of superiority for important families ( Armit 2003 ).

Since copper metallurgy was already known to have existed in Europe since 7000 BC, with heavy axes of natural bronze produced in bulk since 5500 BC, and since true bronze, made by deliberately alloying copper with tin had already been used in parts of east-central Europe since 3700 BC, Ötzi's axe came as no surprise to archaeologists.

Other archaeologists have criticised Corbo's reconstructions.

Pottery and archaeological findings in the area have subsequently been dated to the 7th century BC so, in the opinion of archaeologists the Garden Tomb site would have been abandoned by the 1st century.

Some modern scholars and archaeologists have argued that Essenes inhabited the settlement at Qumran, a plateau in the Judean Desert along the Dead Sea, citing Pliny the Elder in support, and giving credence that the Dead Sea Scrolls are the product of the Essenes.

The earliest known written magical incantations come from ancient Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq ), where they have been found inscribed on various cuneiform clay-tablets excavated by archaeologists from the city of Uruk, and dated to between the 5th and 4th centuries BC.

Ultimately, the genetics have in fact not yet told us anything new ; all these theories were well in place amongst archaeologists long before attempts were made to identify historical population movements with genetics.

At times during the last interglacial period ( 130, 000 – 70, 000 BC ) Europe had a climate warmer than today's, and early humans may have made their way to Scotland, though archaeologists have found no traces of this.

Mesolithic hunter-gatherer encampments formed the first known settlements, and archaeologists have dated an encampment near Biggar to around 8500 BC.

However, despite intensive excavations, archaeologists have found no evidence of a prehistoric major settlement in the area.

As the world warmed, a new culture based on agriculture and sedentary dwelling emerged, which archaeologists have termed " Pre-Pottery Neolithic A " ( abbreviated as PPNA ).

It became the site of an organised cemetery from about 1200 BC ; numerous cist graves and burial offerings from the period have been discovered by archaeologists.

Many historians, archaeologists and adventurers have reconstructed longships in an attempt to understand how they worked.

Of late maritime archaeologists have been examining the submerged cultural remains of China, India, Korea and other Asian nations.

Among the earliest evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite Ethiopia in Matara ( now in Eritrea ) and Yeha ( in Ethiopia ), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th century AD ; the game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Ge ' ez text " Mysteries of Heaven and Earth ," where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge ' ez to refer to both Gebet ' a ( Mancala ) and Sant ' araz ( modern sent ' erazh, Ethiopian Chess ).

However, the American Institute of Biological Sciences also notes bones of dead elephants, left on the ground and subsequently trampled by other elephants, tend to bear marks resembling butchery marks, which have previously been misinterpreted as such by archaeologists.

Since Maeshowe is the largest and most sophisticated example of the Maeshowe " type " of tomb, archaeologists have suggested that it is the last of its class, built around 2800 BC.

Modern archaeologists have found no evidence of mass burial at the location and only some thirty skeletons have been recovered on the site.