Scientists To Begin Study Of Ancient Skeleton Over Indian Protest (Kennewick Man - Update)

Union - Tribune/AP ^ | 6-28-2005 | William McCall

[blam]

Todays Native-Americans got here 3-4,000 years after Kennewick Man.

Afterall, the oldest (undisputed) Mongoloid skeleton ever found is only 10,000 years old.

[Jimmy Valentine]

This is too cool! I hope that they confirm that that he looked like Brad Pitt!

[Dr Stormfist]

Wonder if Cruise will have any input in this..."They are the bones of space aliens that settled our world."

/rolls eyes

[Tax-chick]

"What they're getting is absolutely essential baseline information that has never been obtained for this skeleton," Schneider said Tuesday.

Essential to whom, for what? Interesting, maybe, but "essential"? Everyone's doing just fine knowing nada about Kennewick Man.

[zlala]

It's about darn time.

[Nathan Zachary]

It could turn out to be a viking. or worse, a hoax. A Ukranian immigrant farmer.

[RightWhale]

If history goes back 6000 years, I have personally witnessed 1% of it. So have you. Just a thought, not necessarily feeling old. The US itself, new as it may be, has been around for 4% of all history already.

[Tax-chick]

I've got relatives with long, narrow skulls. Maybe he's MY ancestor. Nobody asked ME if they could dissect him!

[Coyoteman]

Essential to whom, for what? Interesting, maybe, but "essential"? Everyone's doing just fine knowing nada about Kennewick Man.

whom?

Me for one!

[rbmillerjr]

Serious politics will come into play here if it is not a Native American body.

[minus_273]

Actually, you aren't far off. That's pretty much what scientology says. from Wikipedia
"In Scientology doctrine, Xenu is a galactic ruler who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes, and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to cause people problems today. These events are known to Scientologists as "Incident II," and the traumatic memories associated with them as The Wall of Fire or the R6 implant."

[RightWhale]

It won't make a bit of difference either in law or in politics. It will cut the amount of self-absorbed whining by a certain group.

[Nathan Zachary]

Uncle Bob! LoL! He had a long face, dissapeared 35 years ago!

Now that we know carbon dating doesn't work, I wonder what they will come up with to make things older than they really are.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

"The US itself, new as it may be, has been around for 4% of all history already."

I have relatives that I've know that lived for half the time the US has been a nation. (Of course, they're all dead now.)

[oldsalt]

This is too cool! I hope that they confirm that that he looked like Brad Pitt!

No,I think this is the one that was reconstructed and looked like Jean Luc Picard,Patrick Stewart.

[tophat9000]

It could turn out to be a viking. or worse, a hoax. A Ukranian immigrant farmer.

No its Jimmy Hoffa!....the Mob has perfected the time travel whack!

[Nathan Zachary]

i never though of Jimmy! perfect!

[Migraine]

I've got relatives with long, narrow skulls. Maybe he's MY ancestor. Nobody asked ME if they could dissect him!

Wow! A small world! Our ancestors were rivals. Maybe I've got a piece of this action, too. My tribe called your tribe the "Skinny-heads". Of course, my tribe was called "The People". Sometimes, we kicked your asses; sometimes, you kicked our asses. MAYBE I've got a piece of this action, too! Let's sioux!

[blam]

"Serious politics will come into play here if it is not a Native American body."

Yup. John McCain has introduced a bill that will give all human skeletons found in the US to the Indians = Zero study.

That's politics!!

BTW, the truth will be revealed because these same skeletons are being found in Mexico and they aren't subject to these ridiculous US laws.

[ken21]

the scientists have my permission.

my mother is 3/4 indian.