The Ancient Native American Found 2.5 Miles Inside Mammoth Cave — And The Mystery Of Why His People Went So Deep Underground
What Happened To The Man After 1935
The discovery of the miner in June 1935 immediately raised the question of what to do with him.
The practices of that era, applied without significant hesitation, were the practices of a world in which the remains of ancient Indigenous people were treated as objects of scientific study and public display rather than as the ancestors of living nations deserving of respect and returned to their communities.
The man who had died mining gypsum was removed from the ledge where he had been pinned for centuries — the metal straps used in the recovery operation left marks on the boulder that are still visible today — and studied by anthropologists.
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