ANTH 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kennewick Man, Native Hawaiians, Forensic Anthropology
20 Apr 2016
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National american graves protection and repatriation act of 1990, passed november 16th. Applies to native americans on the continent and native hawaiians. Remains go to lineal or cultural descendant, so a tribe or dna related individual can claim human remains. Objects go to those who culturally claim them. Date (when were natives active in this area?) Style (is the artistic style similar to other artifacts found by the. Judge determines remains are not native american because forensic anthropologist claims they have caucasian qualities, therefore they were not returned to any tribe. Problematic because of the age of the bones. There is no way a white man was in america that early. Later determined that the forensic anthropologist was wrong, the man is genetically native american. Still a controversy over who will end up with the remains. Changing relationships between federal land and federally funded museums. Meteonite - not acceptable because it isn"t man made, therefore cannot be culturally significant .
