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Warpy

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1. He looked at bones and drew all the wrong conclusions
Sat Jul 24, 2021, 12:51 PM
Jul 2021

as so many men of his day did because they were desperate to prove their right to enslave others.

These days we have better tools. We can answer questions about where they came from, whether they have living relatives or descendants, what they ate, some of the illnesses they suffered from, and how some of them died. You know, human questions about the people who once used those bones.

We're past the stage of looking at them as trophies, I hope.

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