[Sacajaweau]

A few more scientists live to collect a very big paycheck and get published.

My personal feeling is that the bones should be buried in a proper nearby cemetery and "rest in peace".

Intrusion on this skeleton may tell us something but it will be nothing useful and much will be hypothetical jibberish.

The man died 9000 years ago. No one can "claim" him except the earth.

[sticker]

"The man died 9000 years ago. No one can "claim" him except the earth."

Yes there is his wife, Helen Thomas

[NativeSon]

My personal feeling is that the bones should be buried in a proper nearby cemetery and "rest in peace".
Intrusion on this skeleton may tell us something but it will be nothing useful and much will be hypothetical jibberish.
The man died 9000 years ago. No one can "claim" him except the earth.

As with all of my Nation/Religion, I have a strong aversion to disturbing the dead. No matter how long dead- what is time to the Chindli or spirit?.

I have never understood the unnatural obsession with the dead.

[SunkenCiv]

The man died 9000 years ago. No one can "claim" him except the earth. -- Sacajaweau

That's what the researchers said, and now the court has agreed.

[Publius6961]

The man died 9000 years ago. No one can "claim" him except the earth.

I am sure that your sentiments were different when the indians were claiming the body with the flimsiest and most absurd reason: ignorance.

[Natural Law]

Since you have no idea what it might tell us you have no basis for placing no value on it. If it takes 20 years to complete the study that will be but a blip on the time line. The skeleton was not buried at the time of death but was lost or abandoned by what ever culture it was a member of. Burying it today in a Christian or native American ceremony might be a big affront to the deceased anyway.