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Published online 29 October 2008 | Nature 455, 1156-1157 (2008) | doi:10.1038/4551156a
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No burial for 10,000-year-old bones
University of California denies request for repatriation of remains.
San Diego
In the latest twist in the tug-of-war between Native Americans and anthropologists, officials at the University of California have decided not to repatriate a pair of well-preserved skeletons that are nearly 10,000 years old.
Archaeology students unearthed the bones in 1976 near the clifftop home of the chancellor of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
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