Scientists releasing Kennewick Man research

Tri-City Herald ^ | February 22, 2006 | Anna King, Herald staff writer

[Nathan Zachary]

Yours is in full view.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

your right, carbon dating is totally flawless... there's never been any mistakes. /sarc/

[Spunky]

"Too bad Clinton buried the site."

Our Congressman, Doc Hastings presented a bill to keep them from doing that. It passed the House and it passed the Senate, but before it could be put in the record, Clintoon went ahead an ordered the dirty job done. We sat and watched the cranes with buckets sitting idle while this legislation was taking place.

When it started up again, they put so much burlap, rocks and vegetation that it will be impossible to ever uncover the site to study it again.

[narby]

You've been {{{pung}}} .....

What do you think/know about this???

[Condor51]

****They're going to say the Kennewick Man was Japanese****

No way. He was Irish.

He likely emigrated here as a result of the 1st potato famine - caused by them dam Druids.

[Spunky]

LOL!

[Spunky]

"Largest known eruption from Cascade Range volcano. Catastrophic, caldera-forming eruption 7,000 years ago; post-caldera lava and domes 2 ... From a probable altitude of roughly 12,000 feet, the top of former Mount Mazama was lost to eruption and collapse that left the present huge crater and the deepest lake (1,932 feet) in North America. Explosive eruptions built Wizard Island and two other cones (submerged) on present crater floor 3.
Crater Lake, Oregon

Since his bones were found to be below the earth level of fall out from Mount Mazama, it is fairly certain he was at least from 7000 years ago.

[Heatseeker]

Nah, I'm thinking D. B. Cooper.

[somniferum]

This is the first I have heard about this.. what was the justification for destroying the excavation site??

[muir_redwoods]

"They're going to say the Kennewick Man was Japanese (but of the type before the Chinese arrived)."

Do you mean the Ainu?

[usurper]

No way. He was Irish.

Yep, just wondered off on the way home from the pub. Happens to me all the time. As his direct descendent and rightful heir I demand a casino.

[blowfish]

But with "scientists" automatic knee jerk reaction to make everything a billion years old via carbon dating

I rest my case.

[blam]

"Doug Owsley, the forensic anthropologist for the Smithsonian and the lead scientist studying Kennewick Man, will detail his findings at the American Academy of Forensic Scientists annual meeting."

It was Owsley who put the money and prestige of the Smithsonian institute on the side of the scientists to study Kennewick Man that brought this about.(and, It almost didn't happen)
I was so appreciative, I ordered a subscription to Smithsonian Magazine. Without that support, the Indians probably would have gotton the remains and hidden/buried them for ever

[blam]

Here's an article posted today about the first guy, James Chatters, to study Kennewick Man.

[blam]

"...it is fairly certain he was at least from 7000 years ago."

They already know how old he is, 9,400 years old. Some study was done before the Indians stopped it.

BTW, John McCain has a bill in Congress that would automatically give (without study) any bones found in this country to the Indians. I will never, ever vote for this guy for anything!!!

[blam]

"Do you mean the Ainu?"

Yes, that's what he means...and, some Polynesian.

[Nathan Zachary]

Could be from around that time somewhere, or even more recent There are theories that as ice retreated, Asians Mongoloids or even ppl from Europe could have crossed land bridges from when sea levels were lower, and began inhabiting the edges of the continent which would have been the only places warm enough to survive at the time. Global catastrophic event caused the last ice age in the first place, sudden continental shifting, so it is possible that this skeleton could be from before that time as well.
There are plenty of theories out there, and we can only study the evidence of what have been a one time event that will never happen again.

As far as earth study goes, we don't as yet have the ability to study but a thin layer of the earth. It's equivalent to the layer of skin that peels off your shoulders. That's it.That's the layer most earthquakes come from. What's under that is only a guess. Some say liquid. some say.. well say anything you like, Cheesecake. Mmmm cheesecake

[isrul]

Scientists tell the truth. No PC from them./sarc

The only thing they could say about him that wouldn't be challenged would be that he was a muzzie. Muzzie scholars would surely agree and no one would disagree for fear of decapitation.

[Strategerist]

I take it you get your nonsense in the Giant Economy-sized packs of drivel from Sam's Club?

[Calvin Locke]

From what I remember from older articles, the initial guesses was that he was of some sort of Polynesian ancestry.

Hence, the "First Nation" types, to borrow a Canadian term, fight to keep researchers away from a skeleton much older
than what American Indians can document, "poodle papers" notwithstanding.

I did try to buy a book on the subject, but B&N couldn't find the one copy they had on hand, and my interest wandered
to other things...