From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/15/26 5:30 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 1/15/26 5:19 PM, Steven Douglas wrote:   
   >   
   >> Also, I'm pretty sure they need to get permits from   
   >> some government agency (wherever they are) to do that   
   >> kind of digging. So they're not violating the law,   
   >> though some people would probably still say it's wrong   
   >> to disturb those burial sites.   
   >   
   > I actually get annoyed by some "Native" people over this   
   > stuff, claiming "They're our ancestors!" when all we   
   > know about them is they're dead!  There's no evidence   
   > that they left any descendants at all!   
      
   NOTE:  What I had in mind, typing the above, is Mungo Man,   
   whose remains are tens of thousands of years old and   
   carries an extinct mtDNA line only known from a mutation   
   within the modern human chromosome 11, and not even in   
   everyone... or most people.   
      
   Obviously there could be a great deal to learn from his   
   remains but the insane "He's an ancestor, even if he's   
   not" aborigines have taken control and allow only very   
   limited access.   
      
   I only know of them ONCE having granted access, and it was   
   limited... too limited. They couldn't even extract DNA   
   from it!   
      
      
      
      
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