11,500-Year-Old Remains......

[walksalone11]

"An archaeological dig in Alaska has uncovered the oldest human remains ever found in Arctic or Subarctic North America – the cremated skeleton of a 3-year-old."

read more @ http://www.livescience.com/12970-cremated-child-alaska.html

[Normandie]

i think stuff like is soo cool finding remains still intact like the neanderthal frozen man

[walksalone11]

and just think, perhaps one day in the future, all of our GrandMothers final resting sites will be violated and desecrating. perhaps they can even also be thrown in some box in a storage room of some university or museum and forgotten for a few decades like a few thousand others of my Relations. 

[amyrouse]

I find it interesting that the entirety of the article talks about what a scientific find it is and how it will lend insight into prehistoric times, and then, almost as an afterthought, they include the statement that the two main researchers have toddlers at home and it brings home to the point that their scientific research was a real living breathing human being that died.  Thanks for acknowledging it, buddy.  How about you respect it a little more?

[Annella]

But........it's science right?  Anything for science!

[Falconer02]

Quite a find!

and just think, perhaps one day in the future, all of our GrandMothers final resting sites will be violated and desecrating. perhaps they can even also be thrown in some box in a storage room of some university or museum and forgotten for a few decades like a few thousand others of my Relations.

In their defense, I'd like to point out that this aspect would rarely enter any present american-stereotypes head due to naivety. It's still wrong though.

That is a legitimate sad stance and awkward for me to actually discuss another side to it. My only favoring here is in order to understand specific travel routes, life expectancy (infant mortality rate for this case), medical aspects, etc. you have to study these things to get a better map of history and what precisely went on. Displaying them has always been a very odd and rude thing to me, but I'm one to think that in cases where something big like this is discovered, study it and then put it back-- especially when the belief systems are preservative with the deceased. Scientists do practice this, though obviously not all the time. A year ago I read an article that they had found a 300+ yr old ship down in Antarctica where a crew got stuck in the ice and slowly died off. They found that the early-decreased were buried beneath the ice and all, so they simply did some research and then reburied them as they were. If that were my remnants, I honestly would implore the research of what happened there.

Ultimately, now I would like to know what the natives said when the researchers consulted them about the find.

But........it's science right?  Anything for science!

EXACTLY! Because, without a shred of doubt, *bleep* human experimentation was totally justified!!!

[Annella]

I was being sarcastic...........

[Falconer02]

I was being sarcastic...........

lol I know. Me too.