The article caught my attention because the caucasian issue was on the little blurb, and I thought how stupid.
This thing got political many years ago. When some scientists speculated that Kman might not be Ameican Indian, Liberals tried to prevent any scientific examining of these remains. They used the court system but lost.
Most of us aren't unconscious enough to have thought caucasian. Merely "not amerindian" in the activist sense.
The controversy was about allowing stone age primitives to frustrate science.
The beauty of true science is that it does not tolerate PC. Or shouldn't.
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I find it interesting that the Time pictorial version is far closure to Native American in look that the sculptured version I have seen from the actual skeletal remains.
Unfortunately, as a result of indian graves laws, it will be very difficult to make progress in assessing the history of settlement and the people who lived here.
All archeologists fear finding remains on public lands, and generally avoid them at all costs now.
The irony is that local tribes usually have nothing to do with the remains of the people found, who long ago died out or moved out the area.