If the Kennewick skeleton is locked away or reburied, the American public is deprived of potentially irreplaceable information about its own past.In the 19th century, anthropologists argued that skull capacity equated directly with intelligence. Constitution protect freedom of expression, the scientists argued, it safeguards the right to gather and receive information. Citing a lack of due process, the scientists accused the Army Corps of arbitrary decision-making and raised First Amendment concerns. The lawsuit questions whether the 1990 federal legislation that protects Indian graves is appropriate to 9,400-year-old remains. Gentry Steele (physical anthropologist, Texas A & M University). (geoarchaeologist, University of Arizona), and D. Stanford (archaeologist, Smithsonian Institution), Richard Jantz (physical anthropologist, University of Tennessee), Douglas Owsley (physical anthropologist, Smithsonian Institution), George Gill (physical anthropologist, University of Wyoming), C. Loring Brace (physical anthropologist, University of Michigan), Dennis J. United States of America, eight prominent scientists have sued to obtain access to the Kennewick bones: Robson Bonnichsen (archaeologist, Oregon State University), C.

Do we have Australian Aborigines as first settlers in the Western Hemisphere, exterminated by Mongol hordes who swept over the Bering Strait and immediately headed toward South America? Did Europeans march across some 1,400 miles of ice pack from France to Newfoundland to beat out Indians coming from the west? Did Africans colonize Central America in order to carve massive Olmec heads and bury them in the jungles? Can you compare some verb tenses and a few nouns in some Indian languages with some obscure Chinese dialect and announce that 'waves' of Indians came across the Bering Strait? Can we pretend that the Vikings, the premier sailors and explorers of the Christian era, were content to set up a small winter village on the continent and explore no further? Is archaeology now more puffery than science? Each page here is a revelation, if you are as uninformed as I was, and teaches the reader to look critically at the current headlines instead of cheering science and moving to the sports section.

Skull wars by david hurst thomas