Genes that helped humans survive arctic came from interbreeding with extinct species.

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What archaic treaty are you referring to? Archaic bones, archaic treaty.

Americans do not belief you can own something in perpetuity an that includes laws enacted in 1812 an bones you claim to be yer eighty five thousand year old ancestors that is straight stupid.

Boris, it's know as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGRPA. Passed by Congress in 1990, it requires museums, for instance to return funerary/grave goods, as well as human remains to tribes:


https://www.nps.gov/nagpra/MANDATES/INDEX.HTM

 

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If you look at the facial reconstruction of Kennewick Man, it is not hard to see why many felt these remains could not be of an individual ancestral to present day Native Americans. I believe this assumption is why the courts originally sided with the archaeologists who sought DNA testing, even though the tribes even then were demanding return for reburial.

Where NAGRPA has derailed the desires of archaeologists is in the early remains found in the a United States. There are just way too few such remains. It's only natural to see study of very early remains as a key component in the advancement of knowledge where the early peopling of the Americas is concerned. I'm certain a less then stellar history of the dominant culture's treatment of Native Americans has played into the attitude of Native Americans toward the needs and desires of anthropologists and prehistorians. It is unfortunate. But it is what it is, thanks to NAGRPA.

Now that DNA testing has established the link between truly early remains and present day populations of Native Americans, it may prove very difficult to gain scientific study of any remains dating to very early times. That really is unfortunate. Nevertheless, pre-Clovis studies will continue. It's in its very early stages. But, take a look at this facial reconstruction of Kennewick Man. Since DNA does not lie, and the relation to Native Americans is proven, some degree of physical evolution must have taken place after the arrival in the Americas. Some felt originally that Kennewick Man must have been Ainu, indigenous inhabitants of Japan and Russia....

https://www.npr.org/sections/codesw...tle-over-9-000-year-old-bones-is-finally-over

 

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What archaic treaty are you referring to? Archaic bones, archaic treaty.

Americans do not belief you can own something in perpetuity an that includes laws enacted in 1812 an bones you claim to be yer eighty five thousand year old ancestors that is straight stupid.

Boris, I don't expect you to agree with this perspective, but this piece at least provides an opportunity to appreciate the complexity of the issue, and from the perspective of Native Americans. Written before DNA studies linked Kennewick Man to present day Northwest coast tribes....

https://indiancountrymedianetwork.c...ng-legal-and-moral-battle-over-kennewick-man/