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News & CommentRepresentative Doc Hastings' (R-WA) letter to the Secretary of the Interior expresses concern that the agency seeks to assume authority and control...not granted by the Congress. [posted 1/15/08 - pdf]All comments we've received against the proposed regulations to NAGPRA concerning culturally unidentifiable human remains are here. [updated 1/16/08]
Political News:--House Bill clarifies limits of NAGPRA [posted 11/8/07]
--DOI proposes NAGPRA regulations for the disposition of culturally unaffiliated remains [posted 10/17/07]
--ALERT: URGENT Action on Senate NAGPRA Bill 2087 [posted 10/2/07]The Kennewick Man Case
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-- Comparison of taphonomic interpretations (1999-2000 vs 2005 studies) [posted 3/03/06]
-- Picture of the prototype of the projectile point [posted 3/01/06]
-- Pictures from the taphonomic study in July 2005 [posted 1/06/06]
--The approval process to gain access to study [updated 2/17/06]
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The Spirit Cave Man Lawsuit [updated 12/27/07]
--At Fallon-Paiute request, BLM has granted an additional 60 days to submit new information. The deadline was Nov. 30, 2007. No further information has been released. According to the BLM "new experienced cultural professional(s)" will re-examine the issue of affiliation. The BLM has not released the names of these professional(s), so their competence to evaluate scientific or skeletal information is unknown. NAGPRA requires that a tribe clearly demonstrates a unique relationship to the items to be repatriated. The earlier BLM determination concluded that the Fallon-Paiute claim had not met this requirement. The BLM continues to be unresponsive to requests for information.The Earliest Americans
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-- The Proceedings of the International Science Conference: Science in Archeology held in Houston in 2007 are available . (paperback $25.95) Conference Abstracts [posted 12/27/07]
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