[Spunky]

Ping! Maybe the Washington ping list might be interested.

"Scientists plan to disclose their findings about Kennewick Man on Thursday in Seattle, nearly a decade after the discovery of the 9,000-year-old skeleton that attracted worldwide interest and sparked a lengthy legal fight."

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Here's another article about the work of James Chatter's. In his book Ancient Encounters he shows a graph of all the skull types and their groupings and places Kennewick Man and Stick Man well outside the other groups...and even Stick Man (as placed on the graph) is half-way down the graph from Kennewick Man.

The 'Stick Man' Commeth

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Vintage Skulls

"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas."

"Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."

The Mexicans aren't bound by the NAGRA nonsense like the US.