{"id":260,"date":"2004-09-09T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2004-09-09T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T21:35:00","slug":"260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

“Pagan” predecessors<\/strong><\/p>\n

The BBC picks up on the growing evidence for multiple ancient migrations into the Americas with this story<\/a>. Meanwhile, Inappropriate Response<\/a> remains a good place to keep up with the “Caucasoid” Kennewick Man<\/a> squabble.<\/p>\n

For some American Indian political leaders, this issue has a line-in-the-sand quality. They apparently fear that if Kennewick Man, for instance, is shown to be racially different (Polynesian, perhaps) that they will lose standing in aboriginal land disputes, in claims on sacred sites, and, in general, the lose moral high ground. Whether those results would necessarily follow such findings, I am not sure, but I myself have no problem with DNA studies of all our ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Pagan” predecessors The BBC picks up on the growing evidence for multiple ancient migrations into the Americas with this story. Meanwhile, Inappropriate Response remains a good place to keep up with the “Caucasoid” Kennewick Man squabble. For some American Indian political leaders, this issue has a line-in-the-sand quality. They apparently fear that if Kennewick Man, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-260","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7986,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7986","url_meta":{"origin":260,"position":0},"title":"Not Ainu or Polynesian, Scientists Say of Kennewick Man","author":"Chas S. 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An federal appeals court panel has ruled in favor of reseachers who want to continue to study his remains, now stored at the University of Washington, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":485,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=485","url_meta":{"origin":260,"position":3},"title":"Church, state, and sacred sitesNo\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Church, state, and sacred sitesNo insightful comment here, just a link to a Christian Science Monitor piece on the difficulties of applying law to sacred sites. Kennewick Man gets a mention too. (Remember, boys and girls, \"Caucasian\" is not the same as \"Caucasoid.\" Even the CSM fumbles that term.)","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":97,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=97","url_meta":{"origin":260,"position":4},"title":"An interested bystander . .\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 13, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"An interested bystander . . . is all that I am in the Kennewick Man case, but I enjoyed this post from Moira Breen's Inappropriate Reponse blog. You might like this post as well on the whole sacred-lands issue. British Pagans, for instance, continue to pester English Heritage, etc., about\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":73,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=73","url_meta":{"origin":260,"position":5},"title":"Dem Bones","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 2, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"American archaeologists have had more a decade's experience with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). It has also been misapplied, I believe, as in the case of Kennewick Man. 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