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

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

[blam]

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

Yup, that's him. Spirit Cave Man (the oldest mummy, 9,400 years old, ever found in the US) looks similar too.

[madison10]

"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."

That's hilarious! Stacked the bodies? Souls stuck together? How do PEOPLE make this stuff up? Klingon meditation & war-mongering makes more sense as a religion than Scientology and it's imaginary.

[Migraine]

Jean Luc Picard,Patrick Stewart....

Lyle Lovett? Now there's the ultimate skinny-head...

[Tax-chick]

I wonder what they will come up with to make things older than they really are.

What, you're saying L. Ron Hubbard is WRONG?

[Tax-chick]

LOL!

[Bahbah]

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

But, hold on, liberals are all about science, and we conservatives are not, so why am I so interested in what this can tell us about the origins of man on this continent and a whole host of things...just to know.

[Tax-chick]

Well, there you go.

[Bahbah]

John McCain has introduced a bill that will give all human skeletons found in the US to the Indians

Are you serious?

[Coyoteman]

Now that we know carbon dating doesn't work...

I assume you said that in jest, as part of the Uncle Bob joke. Otherwise we gonna tangle, as carbon dating works just fine.

[muawiyah]

Umatilla, Yakama, Colville and Nez Perce probably ate Kennewick Man's descendants.

[muawiyah]

There's a whole bunch of ways to date old stuff. Radio carbon dating is only one method and only works within a limited span of time.

Still, they all work to date things within the limits of their capability.

[Reactionary]

Whitey: He's Back and He's Madder Than Ever.

[Andy'smom]

Yes this is the "Patrick Stewart" skeleton. He was about 45 years old when he died. No Mongolian features. The tribes base their claim on the idea that they have always believed that they were the first ones on this land and that any remains discovered have to be by default, one of their ancestors.

[DumpsterDiver]

John McCain has introduced a bill that will give all human skeletons found in the US to the Indians

Are you serious?

I don't know about McCain, but this is the last sentence of the article:

"Legislation remains under consideration in Congress that would allow federally recognized tribes to claim ancient remains even if they cannot prove a link to a current tribe."

[Trillian]

Hahaha..

I can't wait for the results, this is so interesting. I love reading about stuff like this!

[blam]

"Are you serious?"

Yup. McCain's an idiot. Read the below linked article:

Kennewick Man To Be Studied In Seattle

[Bahbah]

Oh, geez. So I guess the point is to get the "native American" vote. I'm putting that in my "why I will never vote for McCain" archive.

[mlmr]

I thought this skeleton was paved under a parking lot??

[BlackRain]

The tribes want the skeleton buried and unexamined for some very good reasons.

If it turns out the skeleton is not "Native American" and some other race as suggested; this would undercut the dog-eared argument that "white men stole Indian land".

It may turn out Native American's stole prehistoric American man's land first!

Heh Heh

[Bahbah]

I don't know about McCain

See blams link at post #36.