Thanks - I have heard people speak darkly of "destructive testing" and thought this might be related.
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From: Robert L. Schuyler <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 7:27 am
Subject: Re: Secrets of mass grave revealed
Our expert is a leading "bone" physical anthropologist. DNA would
probably have to done by someone else but, of course, it might be a
possibility.?
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Bob Schuyler?
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At 07:19 AM 3/28/2009, you wrote:?
> Why no DNA? This is not in regard to the Irish however.?
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>I have been thinking a lot about the Native groups that melted into
>mainstream society to avoid being enslaved in the 18th and 19th
>centuries in SC (and the Southeast) lately, and their descendants
>who are trying to reclaim their heritage today. Seems to me that if
>every one who claims to be an Indian did a DNA test, and every
>skeleton "sitting on a shelf" in some curation facility was tested,
>a direct connection could be made, putting the question to rest. It
>seems to me that this would be a positive thing. Have I missed the debate??
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>Is there anyone on the Philadelphia Archaeological Group or other?
>groups who might help them with the excavation?? If so, AFTER the?
>excavation Janet Monge, our skeletal person, would certainly be?
>interested in analyzing the bones (with the exception of DNA). We can?
>not get involved in the excavation stage (either as the official?
>sponsor or fiscally) because we are already involved in our own?
>project. We have no resources for such a dig.??
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>From: Robert L. Schuyler <[log in to unmask]>?
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>Sent: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 4:43 pm?
>Subject: Re: Secrets of mass grave revealed?
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>I also watched the TV story here in Philadelphia. The historians who?
>have been made "guardians" of the bones by the DA of Chester County?
>have now contacted the physical anthropologists at Penn. They admit?
>they have no idea what they are doing in regard to:??
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>(1) excavating the site, and (2) then analyzing the remains, and they?
>have asked for help.??
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>Is there anyone on the Philadelphia Archaeological Group or other?
>groups who might help them with the excavation?? If so, AFTER the?
>excavation Janet Monge, our skeletal person, would certainly be?
>interested in analyzing the bones (with the exception of DNA). We can?
>not get involved in the excavation stage (either as the official?
>sponsor or fiscally) because we are already involved in our own?
>project. We have no resources for such a dig.??
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>If there is some other institution or person at an institution, an?
>archaeologist, who can help please let me know. It is important that?
>these historians did ask for help. The TV story was a bit of a?
>shocker but no major disaster yet.??
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>Except for the digging part this project is 99% physical anthropology.??
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>At 03:28 PM 3/27/2009, you wrote:??
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> >Interesting story, but certainly doesn't appear to be?
> >archaeology. My view of their website indicates that these are?
> >amateur excavations by a history professor and his reverend?
> >brother. I am troubled by any story that starts with "we pulled a?
> >skull from the ground."??
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> >Bob Genheimer??
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> >George Rieveschl Curator of Archaeology??
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> >From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of geoff??
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> >Interesting little report on a small piece of history: a mass grave,??
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> >possibly of Irish immigrant railway construction workers, possibly victims??
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> >of cholera or cholera-induced anti-immigrant hysteria:??
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> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/
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