Posted on 02/04/2004 12:12:38 PM PST by djf
The courts have rules that the remains of Kennewick man, a 9,000 year old apparent caucasian skeleton found on the north shores of the Columbia river in Washington state, are not protected by the Native Americans act and must be turned over for scientific examination.
No surprise about Antartica relics.
Here's the text that goes with the picture: The Buache Map, drawn in 1737, copied from ancient greek maps. It shows the Anctartica without ice. The surprising fact is that if today the ice didn't cover the Anctartica, the Ross and Weddell seas would be united in a huge strait, which would divide the Anctartica in two land masses, a fact that in modern times was established only in the Geophysical year of 1968.
Lots more cool stuff HERE.
The Clinton Administration would sacrifice the very freedom of this country on the altar of self interest and political correctness.
regards,
The Stick Man cometh
Kennewick Man's flack is poised to unveil his latest "discovery."
BY ROGER DOWNEY
THE BONES AND STONES trade is abuzz with rumors about this weekend's Northwest Anthropological Conference in Spokane. Star attraction on the three-day bill is none other than Dr. James C. Chatters, whose deft manipulation of the media back in the summer of 1996 made international tabloid stars of himself and of "Kennewick Man," the 9,000-year-old skeleton that fell into Chatters' capable hands during a boat race on the Columbia River.
Chatters has hinted to insiders that in his hour and a half session this Saturday morning he'll be offering a worthy successor to K-Man--maybe even a close cousin. Named by Chatters after a mischievous Sasquatch-like spirit in Plateau Indian mythology, "Stick Man," who appears to consist mainly of a skull and a lot of speculation, doesn't match the earlier find for glamour. However, Chatters has gotten some well-known names to sign onto the presentation with him: the University of Tennessee's Richard Jantz, a specialist in divining racial affiliations from the shapes of ancient bones, and freelance radiocarbon dater Thomas Stafford.
An early radiocarbon date is particularly important in Stick Man's case because his skull wasn't found "in the field" by trained scientific investigators but in an artifact collector's private museum. But the skull's lack of "provenience" (archaeojargon for exact location in datable strata) is more than made up for by the fact that it was originally found on private land, and hence is exempt from all the legal impediments to thorough testing that have made study of Kennewick Man (found on federal land) so hard to bring about.
Chatters has known about the Stick Man skull for more than three years, hinting to those promising secrecy of a wonderful discovery from somewhere "up north" that would confirm the age and (hotly disputed scientifically) "caucasoid" conformations of K-Man's skull and frame. Going public with it now may have less to do with the time it took to nail down its age than with the way that the federal government, after more than a year of ludicrous bumbling, has taken charge of the K-Man inquest (and its attendant publicity value).
Whatever Chatters may have got hold of, he can be reasonably certain of an agreeable amount of controversy. Also appearing at the Spokane meeting is a group representing the Lummi nation, which will be presenting a full-afternoon session devoted to last year's still-unexplained kidnapping by a licensed archaeologist of more than 40 Native American skeletons from a construction site near Blaine, Washington. The next day features a morning session hosted by the Cultural Resources office of the Umatilla Reservation devoted to ways Indians and others can work together to make sure incidents like Blaine don't happen again. Neither group is likely to be silent regarding Chatters' latest "discovery"--private property or not--or his appropriation of a figure from Northwest Indian mythology to lend it a little spurious romance. But from the scientific presenters' point of view, the more fuss the better. If the publicity flames lit by Kennewick Man are dying down, perhaps Stick Man can reignite them.
Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida) (Windover)
200? Wow, I didn't realize there were that many. I have a pet theory that the story of Atlantis is another such flood legend.
I've heard that a lot of fossil finds show the same kind of 'blender' effect. In the last few days there was a thread about fossilized remains only 5,000 years old, pointing to the fact that such 'pureed' fossil beds don't have to be millions of years old.
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