Tribe challenges American origins (South Pacific Rim peoples were 1st Americans)

BBC On-Line ^ | Tuesday, 7 September, 2004 | Paul Rincon

[Varda]

"Dr Gonzalez said the research would be controversial. "[Native Americans] cannot claim to have been the first people there," Dr Gonzalez said. "

There are some serious flaws in her reasoning. DNA testing on the general populations of Native Americans show most of them to have lineages that split from Asians 15-30,000 years ago. That's time enough for morphology to have changed dramatically from that of their ancestors.

"If proved correct, the findings might have implications for US legislation that covers the return of Native American remains and artefacts to present-day tribes."

The reporter should have done a little homework here. NAGPRA has nothing to do with the origins of New World inhabitants. It supposedly covers only those finds that are culturally affiliated with individual Tribs. Kennewick Man may be an ancestor of modern day Indians but there is no continuous culture from then to now and so the judge ruled against the Tribs and government.

[SunkenCiv]

Just updating the GGG information, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the
"Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list or GGG weekly digest
-- Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[SunkenCiv]

· join list or digest · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post a topic · subscribe ·
	Gods Graves Glyphs	Just updating the GGG info, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
·Dogpile · Archaeologica · ArchaeoBlog · Archaeology · Biblical Archaeology Society · · Discover · Nat Geographic · Texas AM Anthro News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · Google · · The Archaeology Channel · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists ·