Posted on 07/28/2006 10:18:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
John Sirois is the cultural preservation administrator for the confederated tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation... They consider the Ancient One to be an ancestor in need of peace and want him reburied. Nine years and millions of dollars in litigation haven't done much to heal old wounds. Many Native Americans still dismiss archaeologists as glorified grave robbers. And Sirois says the antipathy seems to be mutual. John Sirois: "They still don't see native people as having knowledge the way they have knowledge. It might be quaint histories that have been passed down, but it's not 'real knowledge'."
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The evidence is becoming over-whelming.
Play nice, Suzy.
Luzia, 11,500 years old...found in Brazil.
You're really a Trekkie -- I found the series far too PC and touchy-feely to retain my interest. Of course an android can be replicated endlessly so maybe the writers were having a little fun with us by using that name.
It was my profound sense of irony manifesting itself.
Hey - it's OK from one geek to another.
Yeah, I don't doubt it. It used to be believed that the Americas were peopled around 1000 BC, and it was professional suicide to suggest greater antiquity. When the Clovis finds suggested a much greater age, motion toward that idea was very slow until radiocarbon dating was available, at which point the new date became the new floor under which dates could not fall. I call this Clovis-First-and-Only, and while there are some who still cleave to it, it is dead now.
I agree w/you.
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