[Newsbot]

Title: A skull that rewrites the history of man
Category: Science
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-09-09 13:50:03

[Guy_Fawkes]

Fascinating, I can only imagine how much we will know 25 years from now about the origins of man.

[ridenrain]

Far and safely away from those that would silence discoveries like Kennewick man, for their own personal gain.

[BartSimpson]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Far and safely away from those that would silence discoveries like Kennewick man, for their own personal gain.

I agree. On that topic I was watching a fascinating program on History Channel this past week that had to do with archaeological digs in Virginia. Seems the arrow heads and spear heads they are finding at a number of sites back east are of the European silex type and not of the North American clovis type.

The silex points are being found in strata dating 20,000 to 40,000 years ago while clovis points generally date no further back than 20,000 years.

The program carefully avoided coming out and saying the obvious that the east coast of North America was settled by Europeans long before the so-called 'Native Americans' came along.

Kennewick man would be one of those Europeans.