I saw the week before last the oldest act of love I’ve ever seen in a burial of a woman carefully placed with her hand under her chin, the other on her knee, in a burial dug to a depth of around 6 feet with whomever loved her’s bare hands. I also saw a couple buried together in an embrace, and someone buried with their arms around their best friend, their dog. These visions of love over 3000 yrs. old warmed my heart and reinforced the love I hold dear for my wife and kids. I WANT TO MAKE SOMEONE FEEL THAT SAME WAY IN 3000 years. These burials that archaeologists uncover aren’t just about digging up someones body that has moved on, they’re also about carefully viewing the snapshot in time of the interaction that others had with that person after they died. That kind of information can only be seen in these contexts. Many times it’s beautiful and heartwarming. Many times it’s brutal and more vicious than anything that we would EVER begin to do to OUR own relatives now days (Hell, if I buried my wife, set fire to her feet, set fire to her head, placed a big rock on her head so that she couldn’t go to heaven, and thereby premeditatedly sentenced her to hell on earth for all time, I think with today’s laws I would have to say someone might object to me doing that.). Irregardless, almost every burial can offer an amazing insight into the life and times of my own far distant relatives, and I don’t understand at all why ANYONE objects to us doing this. My personal opinion is that these tribes don’t want us to know about their far-distant past, as the knowledge of that might corrupt our ‘white man’s’ pretty little picture of the Native American being this victimized loving group of societies, which in fact is completely bogus. If that is the case, then they are trying to warp history for the benefit of modern individuals. Kinda like the movie Da Vinci’s Code. Remember the quote ‘Dead people tell no lies’? It’s very true in this instance.
My parents purchased a house in Chula Vista from the Ashley family in 1961. The Ashley's moved a couple blocks away to a new house. I grew up with Ray Ashley over the years. He earned his PhD in archeology and is curator of the San Diego Maritime Museum. One of those rare people who take that field of endeavor and succeed well beyond expectations. You can find lots of citations in Google from his work.
It is quite obvious you do not understand the sacredness of American Indians buried dead. As a full blooded Pokomam member of Salvadoran Mayas, it is quite visible how folks in the states cannot relate to the Americas. American’s ties with Israel a land foreign to them is more sacred than their own, I think this is pathetic.