[Republicanprofessor]

I guess this story began in December 2005, but I am just catching it now. This was published today in the Monitor, and I thought others might need to catch up as I did.

[Republicanprofessor]

Art ping list.

Let Sam Cree, Woofie or me know if you want on or off the ping list.

[mewzilla]

Gee, the libs at Yale don't want to practice what they preach. Who'd'a thunk it.

[tallhappy]

This would not be giving them back.

Whomever made the artifatcs or whomever they originally belonged to it was most certainly not "Peru" nor the people whining now.

They can't be gien back -- the original owners and makers of them are all dead, for whatever reason.

Yale will cave.

It's nonsense though. They'd either not exist at all anymore or till be unknown.

[newzjunkey]

"... They are a well-meaning scientific organization, not looters."

There's a questionable premise in this justification that is stuck in my craw.

[Republicanprofessor]

I don't know if this story is relevant to your ping lists. (This may be too political, but just in case...)

I don't see how you find so many fascinating stories to post. I can't keep up with them all, but I love being on your ping list all the same.

[elli1]

I'm supposing that if President Bush gave away artifacts discovered in the United States, Yale would be having a cow.

[Varda]

This story includes something that is one of my pet peeves whenever someone mentions New World civilizations there's something like this,
"empire- raiding Spaniards never found"

The Aztec and Incan empire destroying Spaniards were mostly indigenous peoples.

I guess it's not PC to mention.

[MinuteGal]

"Possession is nine points of the law, y'all hear?".

(William Jefferson Clinton, Yale Law School graduate, 1973)

Leni

[Porterville]

If it were a Republican college I'd say screw Peru. But since it is a bunch of slimy democrat communist I say give back the loot to its rightful decedents greedy communist pigs.

[Casloy]

Despite the legal merits of this case, Yale would be wise to just give them back.

[Smokin' Joe]

Just tell them "Nope. Can't have it. It's may-an." (as in 'not yours')

Seriously, does this mean I have to give back the arrowheads I found as a kid?

After all, that seems to be the direction of all this.

Find a treasure, or just a relic, and there is a long line waiting to claim it.

I can't think of a greater disincentive to looking.

Something similar has happened with fossils already.

These smaller opportunities are the sparks which ignite the passion for geology, archaeology, paleontology, etc. at an early age, and without that the fields will suffer.

[x]

Go Incas! Boola Boola, give them the Moola!