Posted on 11/03/2008 5:07:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv
In the latest twist in the tug-of-war between Native Americans and anthropologists, officials at the University of California have decided not to repatriate a pair of well-preserved skeletons that are nearly 10,000 years old.
Archaeology students unearthed the bones in 1976 near the clifftop home of the chancellor of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). It may be possible to extract some of the oldest human DNA in North America from the exquisitely preserved remains, say researchers. But in the past two years the bones have become a political football over US$7-million plans to demolish and rebuild the house.
A group of 13 local bands, known as the Kumeyaay tribes, argued that the site was a sacred burial site, and that the bones found there should be repatriated to them. In March this year, UCSD dropped plans to knock down the house, opting instead for a renovation. But last week, University of California officials notified federal authorities that the bones could not be proved to be culturally affiliated with the Kumeyaay and thus would not be returned.
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
"No burial for 10,000-year-old bones
University of California denies request for repatriation of remains.
"Failure to repatriate these remains is offensive to my Moslem faith! Responsibility for this travesty can be laid on George Bush, and would never have happened under an Obama administration!"
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I’m sure the owners don’t mind.
It may be possible to extract some of the oldest human DNA in North America from the exquisitely preserved remains
this is just about protecting casinos.
If it is show there is NO TRULY NATIVE society here in the continent then we may be able to get away from this tribal stuff.
You never saw Poltergeist, did you?
(Besides political correctness and scientific inertia:(The desire to retain current paradigms in spite of any evidence to the contrary expressed as a suppression of any possible evidence to the contrary of the current paradigms).
Probably wondering Swedes.
The Indians ancestors got here during the Pleistocene. Their cultures formed in the Americas. If that doesn’t make someone truly native, I don’t know what would. There is no cultural affiliation between current tribes and these burials and unless the bones are tested they can’t show if there is a direct biological connection. So according to current law, finders-keepers.
Ok, you have convinced me, run an add in the local newspaper asking people who are close kind to come forward with family pictures and birth records. Hee! Hee!
(1) The picture evolving is that Western Europeans hugged the bottom of the glacial shelf in small reed boats, sleeping on the ice and hunting water mammals and fishing, until they reached eastern Canada. "Native Americans" are desperate to hide this.
Piece of cake. Just allege they had an anti-Obama stone tablet in there and let the MSM do the rest. Full dossier in no time.
Good.
Better anaylze those bones quickly.
If the idiot Obama gets in, NO human remains will be subject for study in North America (except maybe those of aborted babies).
10,000 years old — why aren’t they going into a display case?
I’m not too sure about that — I think the motivation is pretty obviously to create bogus facts on the ground in order to create a cultural identity lost in the past few centuries, as a basis for creating a political identity to establish autonomous regions which don’t answer to state authorities.
There is no cultural affiliation between current tribes and these burials and unless the bones are tested they can't show if there is a direct biological connection. So according to current law, finders-keepers....unless, using NAGPRA, which is a federal statute overriding state laws, the testing can be stopped before the decision about affiliation is made. That's exactly what happened here, but this time the "tribe" involved didn't win the case anyway.
Sure they will — but they’ll be the remains of white folks. It’s part of the Reparations movement.
LOL!
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