Thanks blam.
Posted on 08/25/2014 4:30:08 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The shape of the pelvis indicated that the skeleton was a man’s, and Chatters estimated he had been five feet nine or ten inches tall. Observations of the pelvis, teeth, and skull sutures suggested he had been between 40 and 55 years old at death. He had a long, narrow skull, a projecting nose, receding cheekbones, a high chin, and a square mandible. The lower bones of the arms and legs were relatively long compared to the upper bones. These traits are not characteristic of modern American Indians in the area, though many of them are common among caucasoid peoples, and for this reason Chatters initially thought the skeleton was Caucasian. A fragment of a projectile point was imbedded in the pelvis, which had healed over the wound. At that point, Chatters was quoted as saying in the New York Times, “I’ve got a white guy with a stone point in him.... That’s pretty exciting. I thought we had a pioneer.”
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which was planning to turn it over to five American Indian tribes, several of which want it reburied immediately. The skeleton is one of the oldest ever found in the New World, more than 90 percent of it has been recovered, and enough organic material remains to permit radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis. The lawsuit, filed against the corps by eight anthropologists, represents the first major legal challenge by scientists to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), a 1990 law that provides for the repatriation to tribes of Indian skeletons and ceremonial and mortuary artifacts (see ARCHAEOLOGY, November/December 1994). At a Federal District Court hearing on October 23, the corps’ lawyers announced that repatriation would be delayed pending review of competing claims for the skeleton. The judge ordered the corps to give the scientists 14 days’ notice before turning over the remains to allow them to pursue their case.
clintoon ordered it seized ...and it was....utterly contrary to established progms of white guilt enhancement..........:)
We have a lot of Chinese restaurants here in Maine.
Thanks blam.
Whoops! Thanks freedumb2003!
So excellent in so many ways!! :)
Blam! always gets the credit.
Story of my life.
Fortunately, he also had to pay the alimony from my 1st marriage, so it all evens out over time.
And she was NOT worth it!
:)
Well.
I see he’s no longer a dead ringer for Patrick Stewart.
Thank you.
>>I see he’s no longer a dead ringer for Patrick Stewart.<<
Ringo Starr OTOH...
;)
LOL!
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