Image: Edited Photo of Kennewick Man Sculpture*
Image: Spirit Cave Mummy/Nevada - Another Ancient North American Caucasoid**
I read an interesting CNN.Com article today focusing on Kennewick Man. The Kennewick Man is actually a ninety percent complete pile of bones currently under study by anthropologist, archaeologist, and forensic pathologist. The Kennewick pile of bones is in fact one of the most complete sets of skeletal remains of an ancient human living in North America from that date.
As I read the CNN.Com article I kept waiting for a mention that Kennewick man couldn't jump (apparently not fast enough, as he still had a clovis point lodged within his hip). Kennewick man was a Caucasian living in North America during a time from which only Caucasian remains have been found. Yet the article in no way ever touches upon this non-politically correct revision of our understanding of human migration to North America.
CNN(AP):
A team of 20 forensic scientists has been studying the skeleton, he said, and have concluded that the skull doesn't match those of Indian tribes living in the area.
"We know very little about this time period. Who the people were that were the earliest people that came to America," Owsley said. "We are finding out they were coming thousands of years earlier than we had thought," arriving not just over the Bering Strait but by boats and other means.
"This is a very rare discovery. You could count on your fingers the number of relatively complete skeletons from this time period," Owsley said.
Following discovery of the bones in 1996, the Umatilla, Yakama, Nez Perce and Colville tribes urged that the skeleton be reburied without scientific study. They argued that the bones were covered under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Scientists sued for a chance to study the remains and a federal court ruled there was no link between the skeleton and the tribes.
Reality Check:
Let's look at the first sentence of the article quoted above:
A team of 20 forensic scientists has been studying the skeleton, he said, and have concluded that the skull doesn't match those of Indian tribes living in the area.
Not only is there no mention that Kennewick Man was Caucasian, the sentence above fails to mention that no skulls matching those of Indian tribes have been found dating back to this early date. That's sort of a non-politically-correct little nugget that modern Indian tribes wanted to cover up so badly that two tribes fought legally to prevent Kennewick Man's bones from ever being scientifically studied. Instead the tribes demanded that this Caucasian man's bones be buried as soon as possible! They lost out in their attempt after a federal court judged that the modern tribes were not related to Kennewick Man.
The Next Line in the Article:"We know very little about this time period. Who the people were that were the earliest people that came to America," Owsley said. "We are finding out they were coming thousands of years earlier than we had thought," arriving not just over the Bering Strait but by boats and other means.
Quoted above is Douglas Owsley, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. This is about as close as the article comes to revealing that something is not quite right about the way which we've previously viewed human migration to North America.
Once again no reference to Caucasians are made, instead the ambiguous word "they" is used. Also, the time frame is vague enough to lump together the relatively recent migration of "Indians" to North America with the much earlier migration of Caucasians to North America.
"They" came to North America thousands of years earlier than we had thought. But the sentence could factually read that Caucasians migrated to North America thousands of years earlier than any other group! There simply is no way for this anthropologist to state this in a politically correct way - and therefore he uses academic double speak.
At issue here isn't political correctness which is a form of thought, and speech control used by both liberals, and conservatives, it's the racist way in which this subject has been handled.
From the Indian Tribes which desparately tried to suppress the study, to the politically correct anthropologist (not wanting to offend the tribes), to the journalist handcrafting their articles (so as not to offend anyone) we see one concerted effort - to suppress the truth that Caucasians lived in North America thousands of years earlier than any other group discovered so far!
At this point there are approximately ten instances of ancient Caucasian remains discovered in North America - one dating to 11,000 years ago. Indian tribes rapidly descend upon these finds insisting that the remains be reburied without scientific study! All throughout the Clinton Administration several government agencies helped Indian tribes cover up the growing evidence that their ancestors were not the original human inhabitants of North America.
While I understand the fear which Indian tribes may have at the loss of status which this revision in history must usher in, it is important that we do what is honest, and scientifically validated. Truth must not be held captive by one ethnic minority in the name of religion. Study of these important remains, as they become available must be allowed to proceed, and the U.S. government must stop assisting those Indian tribes in their efforts to stop this important science, and historical discovery.
*Image Source for Kennewick Man
elementy.ru/news/164584:
I edited the photograph of Kennewick Man Sculpture.
**Image Source for Spirit Cave Mummy
http://www.fundamentosdeprehistoria.homestead.com/files/Ken_MAN.jpg
9 comments:
Why do they assume he was bald? I mean, come on, there is no way he could have been that bald, they only invented the 5 blade disposable razor this year. There is no way he could have gotten that close of a shave with a sharpened rock. These guys need to do some more home work... (please don't take me seriously)...
There's an excellent image of Captain Piquard of the Star Ship Enterprise - as the Kennewick Man.
I was tempted to post his head up there just to see if anyone caughtit.
LOL!
JP
I think I know that guy.
JP,
Although I agree with you on the fact that it should be studied and that the truth needs to be found I find that that is about as far as I agree. I don't know that the way it is being handled could be called anything but plain commen sense and CYA by those involved. The Native American tribes were of course attempting to protect their claim to being the original inhabitants of this country, an understandable attempt considering it goes beyond just their status and into their religious beliefs. The news papers and scientists are just being smart. You said that they are still studying the remains. It is smart to be very careful of how they word things until all the facts are known. That way when they do come out and say hey caucasions were here first they have all the facts they need to back that statement up when they are hit with all kinds of contriversy.
As for the Native Americans political status in this country I don't think it is in any danger. Even if their were cacausions here prior to Native Americans they were long gone by the time we got here, and thier existence ws in no way recorded or argued. This is important because the Native Americans claim to the land at the time was still legitimate because of this. Also a good portion of the political status that Native Americans have comes not only from the fact that we kicked them out of their homes and off thier land, but also from the way we treated them as we were doing so. We enslaved them, massacered them, raped them, cheated them, and basically screwed them over any way we could. I think that it is fair that now we give them a small portion of the land that is rightfully thiers.
apatriotlegion.blogspot.com
P.S.-Been a while since I've been here, doing a great job, keep it up.
Patriot,
You do raise some interesting points. I hadn't really thought about how important the religious aspect is in all of this.
I agree that whether there we caucasians here before other races isn't relevant to the debt we as a society find ourselves to the native peoples from whom we stole this land.
There are two other cases that I find intriguing that deal with origins.
Caucasian mummies in the Gobi (China). No one is doubting these are Caucasians. A NOVA special showed some of the mummies, and they were definately Caucasians, with long flowing red hair, Caucasian skulls, and features - and Celtic Tartar patterned clothing.
While the presence of Caucasian mummies found within modern day China is just another testament to the incredible tennacity of ancient peoples - I find it hard to understand the "official" Chinese response.
Coverup.
For reasons of national pride, bound to racial pride an official silence is met with Western inquiry into the discoveries of Caucasians in ancient China.
Yet, one only has to look at the Caucasian features of mongolians living upon the silk path to see that East had met West for reasons of trade, and settlement.
The second not very hard to understand attempt to deny archaelogy is found in Palestine-Israel.
There's enough evidence pointing to the origins of the Jewish people to clearly render Biblical orgin's stories for what they are - innacurate oral testament.
The Jewish people arrived to find the chosen land - but in actuality their cultural traditions (pottery, artifacts) show that they were there BEFORE the Biblical stories have them arriving.
Exudus is actually a story which Hebrew Clerics wrote while in Mesopotamia - describing NOT the Jewish people's exile to Eygypt, but their exile to Babylonia!
So the oral testament, while incredible from a literary, and historic standpoint is innacurate historically.
Now one might ask, what does it matter? Why get so many people upset by challenging the HOLY WORD OF GOD?
Why risk that?
We have people killing each other in the Middle East due to religious claims based upon the teachings of these HOLY WORDS OF GOD.
The Jewish people, and the Palestians are the same people. In fact many of the Palestinians some of whom hate Jews with all their hearts, and minds actually descended from Jewish tribes.
Now we see both Palestinians, and Israel attempting to reinterpret archaeological finds to somehow suggest that each was distinct from the other, at an earlier date from the other - it's dishonest, laughable, and sad.
Perhaps I've been corrupted by too much Vulcan thought, but I'd have to say that humans are highly illogical.
Or perhaps it's Marx that has my mind all in a wrangle, but I often believe that Religion, along with atomic weapons, has become THE greatest threat to the continued survival of mankind.
Thanks for your thoughtful response.
JP
JP said...
Now we see both Palestinians, and Israel attempting to reinterpret archaeological finds to somehow suggest that each was distinct from the other, at an earlier date from the other - it's dishonest, laughable, and sad.
Perhaps I've been corrupted by too much Vulcan thought, but I'd have to say that humans are highly illogical.
Or perhaps it's Marx that has my mind all in a wrangle, but I often believe that Religion, along with atomic weapons, has become THE greatest threat to the continued survival of mankind.
Correct on all statements.
Excellent article. I hope some of the viewers exhibit less mind-numbing stupidity than the so-called 'americanpatriotlegion' has expressed in its comments thus far.
Clearly the reason the caucasians were so long gone "before we arrived" is because they were mercilessly exterminated by the mongoloids when they invaded in mass. The archeological evidence supports this. Not only that but the savages enslaved and raped women of the blood of our ancestors to breed the desired characteristics into themselves as genetics and simple observation demonstrate. Now they strive to keep the lid on the vile misdeeds of their peoples against ours, the true natives, this serves only to further condemn them if anything.
And yet amerikwanpatriotardlesion perceives this as a great reason to advocate charity towards the criminal liars who are attempting to hide their horribly inconvenient and genocidal past.
If there was any justice in this world all of the mongoloid indian mass murderer-rapists would have met the same fate their belligerently violent and degenerate predecessors had dealt to our blood when the situation was reversed. And there will be a reckoning, it is closer than you think.
Call others illogical all you want, you are just a plain idiot.
Garmr:
I don't agree with your racist banter, but I posted your comment anyway. There really is no need to view history, or prehistory through a veil of racism. The fact is even if all the races mix, and everyone in the future is some shade of brown, with Asian features there is a very high level of probability that within a few centuries parents will chose what eye color, hair color, melanin level in the skin, height, facial features, are displayed within their children. A successful future human civilization will view racism as form of insanity. You need to evaluate your thinking quickly as I believe you are mentally ill. I don't mean this to hurt you, but to suggest you seek help.
It's Captain Picard!!!!
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