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...pity is that even in its current, imperfect state, NAGPRA can work (to date, about 30,000 remains and half a million funerary objects have been returned to tribes), provided that everyone turns down the heat and tries to reach consensus. However much knowledge scientists pry from the Kennewick bones, the goodwill lost and the contentious precedents set may make the next generation of NAGPRA cases a lot less friendly than the last...
...short, the remains that came to be known as Kennewick Man were almost twice as old as the celebrated Iceman discovered in 1991 in an Alpine glacier, and among the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found in the Americas. Plenty of archaeological sites date back that far, or nearly so, but scientists have found only about 50 skeletons of such antiquity, most of them fragmentary. Any new find can thus add crucial insight into the ongoing mystery of who first colonized the New World - the last corner of the globe to be populated by humans. Kennewick Man could cast...
...Erlandson, an archaeologist at the University of Oregon, whose work in Daisy Cave on San Miguel Island in California's Channel Island chain uncovered stone cutting tools that date to about 10,500 years B.P., proving that people were traveling across the water at least that early. More recently, researchers at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History redated the skeletal remains of an individual dubbed Arlington Springs Woman, found on another of the Channel Islands, pushing her age back to about 11,000 years B.P. Farther south, on Cedros Island off the coast of Baja California, U.C. at Riverside...
...burst of scholarship about locations all over the Americas. The Topper site in South Carolina, Cactus Hill in Virginia, Pennsylvania's Meadowcroft, the Taima-Taima waterhole in Venezuela and several rock shelters in Brazil all seem to be pre-Clovis. Dillehay has found several sites in Peru that date to between 10,000 and 11,000 years B.P. but have no apparent links to the Clovis culture. "They show a great deal of diversity," he says, "suggesting different early sources of cultural development in the highlands and along the coast...
...However, Weijie Huang ’08, a student from Kaufman’s “Media Class,” believes that the contemporariness of the material makes it more relevant. “A lot of the examples were really recent and were really up to date and I could identify with what they were talking about, like MTV and the rise of hip hop,” he says. THE NIGHT OF SELF-DOUBTEven those in favor of teaching pop culture, however, see the potential for falling into some dangerous traps.The aspect...