Ancient remains found in central Florida peat farm

Associated Press in Naples (FL) News ^ | October 13, 2003 | N/A

[Bernard Marx]

Associated Press

KENANSVILLE — When workers digging up peat at a former central Florida sod farm unearthed human remains with their backhoe, they called the police. But this was a cold case that authorities were unlikely to solve.

The bones found Thursday appeared to be those of a young man who died in his late teens or early 20s about 4,800 years ago, said Anthony Falsetti, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Florida.

"It's quite significant because it ties into some earlier discoveries in the 1980s ... dating back to 8,000 years ago," Falsetti said Friday. "It continues to fill in the picture of early life ... in Florida."

The remains are being suspended in water at the lab, so they don't dry out and crumble into dust. Archaeologists will not photograph the bones, and he will not receive a nickname. Instead, the skeleton is designated as 10-B-03.

The Bureau of Archaeological Research in Tallahassee will survey the site where the remains were found for other signs of a past civilization. Animal bones designed in a decoration were also found with the remains discovered about 50 miles southeast of Orlando, Falsetti said.

After consulting with the two American Indian tribes of Florida, state archaeologist David Dickel said the bones were expected to be reburied in a private ceremony attended only by experts. There will be no marker, to thwart collectors and vandals.

"He lived in a simpler time with a simpler life, but this was no primitive," Dickel said. "Even though it's only bones, we think of it as a life."

[Bernard Marx]

Looks like they can't re-bury the evidence fast enough. Is Political Correctness the only "science" involved in this matter? Where is the evidence that these remains and others found in the region have any relationship with existing "Native American" groups?

[RightWhale]

After consulting with the two American Indian tribes of Florida

Were they American Indian remains?

[Support Free Republic]

Let's keep the Dem's on the run!
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[FReepaholic]

>>...the bones were expected to be reburied in a private ceremony attended only by experts....<<

Experts at what???

[Celtjew Libertarian]

When I saw that headline, my first reaction was, "I didn't know Janet Reno had gone missing."

[Lee'sGhost]

They found Jimmy Hoffa!

[BigBobber]

It is indeed tragic that the laws in this country allow a certain race of people to destroy scientific data that would tell us so much about the history of this continent.

It is not even legal to photograph the bones before they are hidden forever by ignorant racist people who wish to remain ignorant.

What if people in Europe declared that all Neanderthal skeletons must be destroyed and all photgraphs of them removed from books? What if African people declared all of the early humanoid skeletons got the same treatment?

This is an unbelievably stupid PC law that must be revoked by congress.

[Blue Screen of Death]

He was part of a tribe of New York indians who moved there after retirement.

[bmwcyle]

It is the tomb of the FL Stupid Voter.

[Gunrunner2]

We will never know. . .

[Frank_Discussion]

The SoSumee Tribe, no doubt...

[Junior]

An afternoon science ping...

[Conspiracy Guy]

Probably an Ancient Canadian on Winter vacation. Those snowbirds go way back.

[Fierce Allegiance]

if that is true, they would have found him in a grape smuggler speedo.

[balrog666]

Were they American Indian remains?

The 9th circus ruled that didn't matter in Washington and Oregon - don't know if a similar ruling was made for Florida.

[PatrickHenry]

After consulting with the two American Indian tribes of Florida ...

As I understand it, there are no indians living in Florida today who are descendants of the original inhabitants. During the 300 years that Spain owned Florida, the natives were killed, died of disease, or were exported to places like Cuba as slaves. When the US bought Florida, there were vitually no indians there. Today's Seminoles came from elsewhere, so consulting with them makes no sense at all.

[DannyTN]

"It is the tomb of the FL Stupid Voter. "

Didn't they recently find evidence that the FL Stupid Voter had also settled in California?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I read somewhere else that he was wearing a plaid flannel shirt, shorts, black socks, and sandals.

[Gman]

Was he found in an ancient Cadillac with a tuft of white hair on his skull?

[Sabertooth]

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