At 09:45 PM 12/14/98 -0800, Eugene Hunn wrote:

> One thing is clear to me, however, that
>it was a serious mistake to refer to Kennewick Man as "caucasian" or even
>"caucasoid," implying a racial typing that is rejected by the vast majority
>of serious physical anthropologists.

The person who made the pronouncement was recently quoted in a New
Scientist overview piece as saying he made a serious mistake in making
such a statement.



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