Friday, September 26, 2014

Kennewick Man and First Inhabitants of America

      The article I posted this week talks about the Kennewick man. This name refers to a partial skeleton that was found in Kennewick Washington and has, since its discovery, challenged everything we know and presently understand about the peopling of North America. The skull recovered from the site tested much older than anticipated after radio carbon dating and had completely different features than expected. Do to N.A.GR.P.A all human remains older than a couple thousand years are assumed to be those of  "Native Americans" and therefor must be returned to the nearest tribe for proper burial. This his created huge amount of conflict as the skeleton had some particular features that were more European in nature and therefor challenged the idea that all early people of North America came over on the land bridge formed during the last ice age. perhaps the whole theory about the spread of humans across the planet needs to be rethought out and without pivotal evidence we may never know the actual truth. You can access the article here at: Kennewick man

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