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Researchers, tribes clash over Native bones

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Publish Date: 01-15-2012 12:49 PM -0800


In this photo taken Dec. 8, 2011, Dr. Mari Lyn Salvador, Director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, looks at basketry design made by Pomo Indians of Northern California at the University of California in Berkeley, Calif. The small, eclectic museum recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of a recording made by Ishi, the last surviving member of the Yahi tribe who emerged from hiding in Northern California in 1911. The museum displays artifacts such as Pomo baskets, an Achumawi rabbit-skin blanket and arrowheads Ishi made out of obsidian and glass but not the remains of native peoples. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)On a bluff overlooking a sweep of Southern California beach, scientists in 1976 unearthed what were among the oldest skeletal remains ever found in the Western Hemisphere.



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