PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 3 — Eight scientists who are suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers claim that the corps violated the National Historic Preservation Act by plowing over a burial site where a 9,300-year-old skeleton was found.
THE REMAINS, known as “Kennewick Man,” were discovered in the shallows of the Columbia River in 1996 in Kennewick, Wash.
The corps argued they were simply trying to keep looters away from the site when they covered it with 500 tons of rock and soil in 1998.
But scientists claim that the corps violated laws governing preservation of historical artifacts and risked ruining the original burial site.
“If Kennewick Man was buried in a grave with other types of artifacts, the chance of finding that out now — it’s just flat-out impossible,” said the anthropologists’ lawyer, Paula Barran.
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THE REMAINS, known as “Kennewick Man,” were discovered in the shallows of the Columbia River in 1996 in Kennewick, Wash.
The corps argued they were simply trying to keep looters away from the site when they covered it with 500 tons of rock and soil in 1998.
But scientists claim that the corps violated laws governing preservation of historical artifacts and risked ruining the original burial site.
“If Kennewick Man was buried in a grave with other types of artifacts, the chance of finding that out now — it’s just flat-out impossible,” said the anthropologists’ lawyer, Paula Barran.
Want to learn more?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/323998.asp
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-Administrator / Owner
"Everything was true. God was an astronaut. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed