A CUSTODY FIGHT … FOR A FINGER?
Thursday, Jun 15th, 2006 @ 05:44 pm
The U.S. Interior Department and the University of California, Davis, are duking it out in court for possession of 1.5 grams of human bone. The fragment of finger bone was collected from 9000-year-old remains found buried in Washington State. UC Davis scientists had planned to perform DNA analysis on the bone, in hopes of learning more about ancient inhabitants of the Americas. After Native Americans laid claim to the remains, the U.S. Justice Department ordered the university to surrender the finger fragment. So far, it has not been turned over. For now it remains in a fireproof safe at UC Davis.