Letters Cultural Confusion
While I enjoyed the article “Prehistory at Maryland’s Crossroads,” I could not help but observe that the “Late Woodland spear point found during the 1999 excavations” bore unmistakable traits of an Eastern Clovis-type fluted projectile point. Many sites in the East and Midwest are stratified and contain several cultural components. Perhaps future excavations will explain the presence of an apparent Paleo-Indian artifact at this site. Joseph D. Bartlett Lafayette, Indiana You’re right. It is a Clovis point. Our apologies for mistakenly identifying it as Late Woodland. —Ed. A Dismaying Commentary
I was dismayed and shocked to read Mr. Mark Michel’s remarks about putting a moratorium on the reburial of Native Americans in his column Lay of the Land in the Fall 2000 issue. How would Mr. Michel feel if some
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historically hostile people to his were to dig up, find, keep, and study his ancestors’ remains for their own purposes? Common human decency and respect for other peoples’ desire to rebury their dead are not “political answers.” I strongly feel an apology is due to Native Americans everywhere. Madelene S. Nowell Cape Neddick, Maine Finding Other Methods of Research
Regarding the Lay of the Land column, I am all in favor of finding the truth concerning the cultural collapse of the Anasazi. But to say that Chaco Canyon and other sites are deliberately withholding skeletons or “rushing to bury them” for political reasons is being a little insensitive. We need to find a way to do research without tampering with the remains of people’s loved ones. Monette Bebow-Reinhard Abrams, Wisconsin
American Archaeology Wins Another Award American Archaeology recently took second place in the Folio: Editorial Excellence Awards. The Winter 1999/2000 issue was a finalist in the Science and Technology category. The Editorial Excellence Awards are part of a national competition sponsored by Folio:, a publication devoted to the magazine industry. The Winter 1999/2000 issue also won the Silver award in another national competition, Magazine and Bookseller’s Annual Magazine Cover Contest.
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