A treasure trove of Coast Miwok life dating back 4,500 years - older than King Tut's tomb - was discovered in Marin County and then destroyed to make way for multimillion-dollar homes, archaeologists told The Chronicle this week.
The American Indian burial ground and village site, so rich in history that it was dubbed the "grandfather midden," was examined and categorized under a shroud of secrecy before construction began this month on the $55 million Rose Lane development in Larkspur.
— sfgate.com
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These people should be fined and these houses somehow carefully removed so that this site can be studied and whatever is left preserved.
GO TO THE LIGHT!!!
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woah
The American Indian leaders ultimately decided how the findings would be handled, and they defended their decision to remove and rebury the human remains and burial artifacts.
"The philosophy of the tribe in general is that we would like to protect our cultural resources and leave them as is," said Nick Tipon, a longtime member of the Sacred Sites Protection Committee of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. "The notion that these cultural artifacts belong to the public is a colonial view."
never heard of that happening ... kinda sounds like the mcmansionist developer slimeballs were following the rules. Maybe they shouldn't have listened to the native reps but hey, it sounds like they were following all the archeology hoops.
those homeowners still gonna need go to tha light
I've never been sure whether films like Poltergeist, Amityville Horror, The Shining, Pet Cemetery and so on disclosed a deep sense of guilt that settler colonialists have apropos the edifice-metaphor of a colonial culture built on the death of a native one (house on a native cemetery) or whether they, the colonizers, have sublimated the dehumanization of natives, rendering them esoteric and alien, that even in their death, it is that preconceived savagery; a hated, feared and yet belittled virtual monstrosity (and that combo: hating, fearing and denigrating an indigenous culture is idiosyncratically a colonial one) that lingers in the imagination of the colonist and that remains to scare the settler's little white children...or is it perhaps both?
nah they just want to make a cool movie
thank you for that piece of your denigrating mind
el, oh el!
sounds like the level of architectural discourse in many schools when someone uses historical devices in their design. "nah, I just wanted to make a beautiful building."
Who wants to live in a field of the dead? Smucks probably paid top dollar for the site.
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