The Young Woman Found In An Idaho Gravel Quarry — And The 12,500-Year-Old Burial That Complicated The Clovis Story
These objections were not wrong on their own terms.
They were simply operating within a framework that had already been changed by the political and legal developments of the period.
The framework change was appropriate.
The question of who has authority over the remains of ancient Indigenous people is not a scientific question that archaeologists are uniquely qualified to answer.
It is a moral and legal question, and the moral answer that NAGPRA and its state analogues embody — that Indigenous peoples have rights over their ancestors — is the right answer.
The scientific cost is real.
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