Mummies of Urumchi

JoatSimeon at aol.com JoatSimeon at aol.com
Mon Mar 29 18:06:51 UTC 1999


>Georg at home.ivm.de writes:

>But the field is bored by this, saying hell, we cannot identify race and
>language and that's bad. We could have such a tremendous number of positive
>hypotheses if we could, so why don't we (tacitly, if need be) declare this
>procedure possible after all ?

-- taboos eventually wear out and die.  This one had nothing to do with
evidence, and everything to do with the political/cultural repercussions of
WWII.  That's receeding into history now.

You should bone up on Cavalli-Sforza's work, using genetic analysis to trace
prehistoric migrations.



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