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michael
on from the history-that-isn't-taught-in-high-school dept.
Genoaschild writes: "CNN has an interesting article about the possible origins of early Americans and their similarities to the cultures of where they came from."
Researchers hindered by tribes in many cases.
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Bonker
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I watched a documentary not too long about about this kind of research. One of the researchers' primary obstacles was the fact that many tribal councils demanded that all fossils be turned over to them for 'proper burial' if they were found in tribal lands.
Of course you can't do composition analysis on casts, which are slightly imperefect representations anyway.
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I watched a documentary not too long about about this kind of research. One of the researchers' primary obstacles was the fact that many tribal councils demanded that all fossils be turned over to them for 'proper burial' if they were found in tribal lands.
Of course you can't do composition analysis on casts, which are slightly imperefect representations anyway.
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