Furthermore, sometimes colonial rulers argued that the ancestors of the colonized people did not make the artifacts.

These stones were believed to be ancestors of the people in whose area they stood and sons of the Sun.

The ancestors of the Greek people created the marbles, the argument goes, and imperialists stole them.

They are believed to be the spirits of ancestors of the people living there.

Don't you think a patriotic sky man might want to cast doubt on the stories of greatness among the ancestors of the middle people?

In those days the ancestors of the people had not been farmers, for with machines to do the work there was no need.

These spirits were said to be the wandering souls of the dead, the ancestors of the people who had settled nearby.

The ancestors of the modern Pawnee people were not a single unified tribe.

All non-Africans share a mutation that arose in the ancestors of the first people to leave the continent, for instance.

Later, the ancestors of the Kavalan people drifted to Taiwan by sea.