ANTHROP 3AS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kennewick Man, Illegal Art, Sex Segregation
11 Apr 2018
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Establishment of homelands and national history trajectories. Marginalization of modern indigenous people and the perceived separation from pre-colonial period (the live indian and the dead indian problem) The progress narrative: western ideals; colonization and colonial attitudes. Accidentally found at section of the columbia river in kennewick, wa. Skeleton is in remarkable condition, and dates to roughly 6500 bce. Skeletal features were first believed to be aligned with modern european caucasian populations and now possibly east asian ainu populations. Legal battles have ensued over destructive analysis of bones; still in courts (today) after two decades. Radiocarbon dates and continuity of khoisan stylistic elements, spanning millennia and thousands of square miles, firmly establish an early and widespread occupation by khoisan people in southern africa (ca. The khoisan, the pastoral khoikhoi and hunter-gatherer san, still lack recognition by the democratic government of south africa. South africa"s 1913 natives land act enforced racial territorial segregation, and displaced thousands of khoisan people.
