Posted on 03/05/2006 9:44:37 AM PST by barj
(excerpt) One of the big unanswered questions was whether Kennewick Man was Caucasian. The answer, it turns out, is probably no. He's more likely Polynesian or closer to Ainu, an ethnic group that is now found only in northern Japan but in prehistoric times lived throughout coastal areas of eastern Asia, say researchers
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/05/time.first.americans/index.html
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The article caught my attention because the caucasian issue was on the little blurb, and I thought how stupid.
This thing got political many years ago. When some scientists speculated that Kman might not be Ameican Indian, Liberals tried to prevent any scientific examining of these remains. They used the court system but lost.
Most of us aren't unconscious enough to have thought caucasian. Merely "not amerindian" in the activist sense.
The controversy was about allowing stone age primitives to frustrate science.
The beauty of true science is that it does not tolerate PC. Or shouldn't.
Boy, that was an obscure reference. How'd you come up with that?
Actually, it could be her. Now that I think of it, I have never seen the two of them together.
Check out the lips on Time's Kennewick "Man". The Time's idea of the dude looks like a lady.
Actually in sunglasses and tatooed he looks like the "Rock"
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I find it interesting that the Time pictorial version is far closure to Native American in look that the sculptured version I have seen from the actual skeletal remains.
Unfortunately, as a result of indian graves laws, it will be very difficult to make progress in assessing the history of settlement and the people who lived here.
All archeologists fear finding remains on public lands, and generally avoid them at all costs now.
The irony is that local tribes usually have nothing to do with the remains of the people found, who long ago died out or moved out the area.
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