Indian givers

[ncboman]

University backs off in transfer of remains


UC anthropologists and others said that there's not enough evidence to link the bones to Kumeyaay or any culture, and that turning over the relics would undermine research of the peopling of the New World.

The Kumeyaay said they don't want the bones as long as they are classified as “culturally unidentifiable,” calling the designation inaccurate and insulting.



web page (http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/may/07/1m7bones233957-university-backs-transfer-remains/?metro&zIndex=95156)

ncboman

[ncboman]

Snotty deal seems to me.

The experts seem to be avoiding one of the fundamental techniques in ageing artifacts and the Indians find the bones worthless unless the experts classify them.

Both parties seem very disingenuous.

ncboman

[Greywolf]

it is kind of strange.
It's as if science needs to be reassured by the Indians. And the Indians are not sure 'til they see the results from the scientists.:confused:

[ncboman]

the remains, which were unearthed near the chancellor's cliff-top house in the 1970s and are believed to be among the oldest found in the Western Hemisphere.

A very important aging technique is examining relics from digs in the immediate and surrounding area. Gotta wonder if they dug up the chancellor's yard ... :rolleyes:

The Indians doan seem to really care about the ancient bones so much as the signification of ancestry. Probably no more related to those bones than I am. :D

ncboman

[GF.]

Maybe they just want to be sure that the bones end up in the hands of the right tribe. I'm pretty OK with that, just out of respect for all concerned.

** Sort-of on-topic ** ( :D )Family legend has it that 'my people' were promised all of the land in a particular valley 'as long as the sun shines and the river flows'.

Then White Man dammed up the river. No sunshine. No river. No land.

Just big damn white man lake. :mad: