[Chad Fairbanks]

I don't know if we claim to have been "the first people here" so much as we claim to be "the people who were here before all the other people that are here now, and we are still here unlike those long-headed losers on the Baja Peninsula who died out because of disease".

Big difference.

[No Blue States]

"A population of the long-headed individuals being studied by Dr Gonzalez had survived into historic times, she claimed"

"John Kerry is the perfect example of this particular species."

[rastus macgill]

Not familiar with this but anything that undermines NAGPRA is fine with me.

[fat city]

"Some of the earliest settlers of America may have come from Australia..."

So... we're descended from English prisoners?

[Docbarleypop]

ping

[usurper]

One look at Kennewick Man and I can tell he is of Irish origin. Probably had a bit too much of Irish whisky while out fishing and ended up in Washington.

As a direct descendant I demand a casino and tax-free tobacco. Oh, I forgot, I want some of those really good fireworks to.

[Right Wing Professor]

Ping for your list

[blam]

Arlington Springs Woman

[blam]

"We have extracted her DNA. It is going to be a bomb," Dr Gonzalez commented.

I'm gonna guess that these people are/were related to the Japanese Ainu just like Kennewick Man.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Varda]

"Dr Gonzalez said the research would be controversial. "[Native Americans] cannot claim to have been the first people there," Dr Gonzalez said. "

There are some serious flaws in her reasoning. DNA testing on the general populations of Native Americans show most of them to have lineages that split from Asians 15-30,000 years ago. That's time enough for morphology to have changed dramatically from that of their ancestors.

"If proved correct, the findings might have implications for US legislation that covers the return of Native American remains and artefacts to present-day tribes."

The reporter should have done a little homework here. NAGPRA has nothing to do with the origins of New World inhabitants. It supposedly covers only those finds that are culturally affiliated with individual Tribs. Kennewick Man may be an ancestor of modern day Indians but there is no continuous culture from then to now and so the judge ruled against the Tribs and government.

[SunkenCiv]

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