Luzia, died 11,500 years ago at the age of 24 in Brazil.
Posted on 02/24/2003 5:56:23 AM PST by vannrox
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:52 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
However, I went to both public and private schools.
It's not a proper noun.
From what I (vaguely) recall, the "Japanese" entered the islands from the south, starting sometime not long before Christ, and have been spreading north and east ever since.
It is when it is being used as a generic name for a school within the public school system , which it obviously was in this case. Since you seem to be a grammer expert, let me ask you this ... If your parents had named you 'Public School Smith' would you find the captialization of your name 'Public School' to be proper or improper?
BTW, you seem to be convincing me of your lack of comprehensive skills. You also seem to be lacking an attention span necessary for the continuing development a discussion about this article. You seem to think it's about grammer and not about the original topic of an Indian tribe court motion before the 9th Circuit. Or about my post to you pointing out that it was the Indian Tribes, not the court, that made the motion to prevent the study of the bones. Something you seem to either wish to ignore or can't understand by reading the article.
What Empire? This is big news.
I posted that and It seems you misunderstood. What I posted was that James Chatters (The Kennewick Man Archaeologist) stated in his book, Ancient Encounters, that there are no Native American/American Indian skeletons (as we know them today) ever found in the Americas that are older than 6,000 years.
Now, there are many skeletons older than 6,000 years old in the Americas, it's just that they belong to other (many) racial groups. If you've followed my posting you'll know that I frequently post a picture of Luzia (a negroid woman), and until recently the oldest skeleton ever found in the Americas. Don't direct any racial BS to me, I seek the truth only.
It looks like the new 'oldest skeleton' ever found in the Americas is Arlington Springs Woman (13,000+ years old), found on an island off the coast of California. There are so few bones, I expect we'll never know what racial group see belongs.
Luzia, died 11,500 years ago at the age of 24 in Brazil.
"What empire, you ask!"
More old skulls have been found.
In 1959, the partial skeletal remains of an ancient woman estimated to be 10,000 years old were unearthed in Arlington Springs on Santa Rosa Island, one of the eight Channel Islands off the southern California coast. They were discovered by Phil C. Orr, curator of anthropology and natural history at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The remains of the so-called Arlington Springs woman were recently reanalyzed by the latest radiocarbon dating techniques and were found to be approximately 13,000 years old. The new date makes her remains older than any other known human skeleton found so far in North America.
The discovery challenges the popular belief that the first colonists to North America arrived at the end of the last ice age about 11,500 years ago by crossing a Bering land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska and northwestern Canada. The earlier date and the location of the woman's remains on the island adds weight to an alternative theory that some early settlers may have constructed boats and migrated from Asia by sailing down the Pacific coast.(Just because they came from Asia does not mean that they were Orientals)
The Arlington Springs woman lived during the end of the Pleistocene era when large herds of bison and woolly mammoths roamed the grassy plains and other extinct native American animals such as camels, horses, and saber-toothed cats were still around.
The remains of Pleistocene-era animals have been discovered on Santa Rosa Island where the Arlington Springs woman was found. In 1994, the world's most complete skeleton of a pygmy mammoth, a dwarf species, was also excavated here.
You shouldn't be surprised, however, if your ancestors wiped out a previous people (or that they wiped out the mega-fauna in the Americas) any more than you sould be surprised that your crap stinks as much as everyone else's does (that has the same diet, anyway). Humans are humans and have been murdering each other for as long as they've existed.
I've been recommending it a lot in the past few days but I strongly recommend reading Lawrence Keeley's War Before Civilization. And realize that "the peaceful savage" is both a myth and quite patronizing, as well. As I explained to another Native American here on Free Republic, hiding the remains will stop scientific understanding and progress. To that, I'll add, the vacuum will be filled with myth. The best way to fight the white supremacist myths about Kennewick Man woudl be to show he wasn't European, I would think. To leave it undefined is to leave it open to conspiracy theories which will, most likely, be worse than any truth.
Very well said.
CHEERS!
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