Posted on 02/24/2006 5:51:38 AM PST by Spunky
Yeah, I remember all of that when this was news earlier. I had also forgotten (but read on another recent thread) that Clinton allowed the site to be basically destroyed and useless for further study. I'm just so glad the courts allowed this to go forward. It would seem to me that in order for the Yakima to claim this person as an ancestor, they would have to have the bones examined/tested first, to prove their claim. Otherwise, is every bone found in the US deemed their ancester and thus not looked into?
susie
Absolutely. If they can get enough DNA to test, that would give so much more info. Fascinating stuff.
susie
Yes, some ancient skeletons have been found to have African features. There probably were different peoples who were ancestors. Some have even said the Chinese sailed here anciently. I just wonder how successful in business they were--ok, bad remark. We know the Vikings were here long before Columbus, so maybe other peoples besides Native Americans were too.
I have read about some interesting DNA studies that indicated there was some gene present which is found in Europeans from Spain and Portugal. There's also the Solutrean points and Clovis point similarities.
Lingustic studies indicate that the degree of differentiation between the several families of Native American languages might have taken up to 40,000 years to achieve and the center of linguistic differentiation was along the western coast of the U.S. All of this stuff is really very fascinating.
Some Native Americans have a hidden agenda in blocking these studies as they claim their ancestors were always in the Americas and anything which might refute that should be surpressed or couldn't possibly be right. Obviously these people are totally wrong.
Especially since the Columbia River runs toward the West!
I have been fascinated with it ever since I heard about it. I think I'm going to go travel and actually see a model of it.
Probably was a lot smarter than Picard. Stewart is a notorious anti-American leftist who got rich here and then criticized America. I think he a Canadian - must have some Tory or French blood in him.
Yes, I do believe there is an agenda for the claims. But then, initially, I guess I could also see how they might claim it. It sure has been a long court battle though.
Remember, Picard "evolved." He's part Borg too.:)
Thanks for the update however, we don't know anymore than we already did...unless, there is a more detailed report coming.
I have to interrupt your science-bashing, left-wing monologue to point out that it was Oswald's mother and brothers who had him exhumed based on the Warren commission findings. These were politicians, not scientists.
You can continue now.
I just refer to them as simple puns. Forget the French:).
Well the Vikings were here about 1000 A.D. and may have continued visiting for several hundred years until the Greenland colony collapsed.
These African and European markers date back long before that. Clovis was about 10,000 B.C. and the European Solutrean culture which resesmbles it predates Clovis. Teh African type skulls go back several thousnd years in South AMerica.
Some physical anthropogists believe that physical features are to a degree plastic, i.e. they are maolded and changed by environment and not by genetics so similar features may not necessarily indicate consanguinity.
Like I said, this stuff is really fascinating.
I hope so.
I like that - puns. You're right - forget the damn French.
Pass the Freedom Fries.
It is very fascinating for sure. I'll be following it.
Yes, it was stupid for the gov to destroy the site especially when a lot more was still left to be found.
Yes, the feautures may or may not be true to form, but it is still fascinating. I wonder how this would change the theories of the origins of the settllers here ro migration patterns.
Puns is much more simpler to say and much punnier too. Try making a pun with double entendree.
I think this political correctness gone amuck dating from the Bush I and Clinton eras.
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