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Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 14:07:16 -0700 To: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk From: jlipps@ucmp1.Berkeley.EDU (Jere H. Lipps) Subject: Re: Dinosaurs from La Brea Tar Pits --??-- Status: O I am not sure where the quote regarding our fossils stored in the Sather Tower at Berkeley came from (I hope not our Museum of Paleo WWW--better the Campus WWW), but it is not only poorly written but wrong in part. The Museum of Paleontology has 4 of the 5 floors in the Tower which is one of our 3 auxilliary storage facilities. Mostly we store Rancho La Brea materials there, plus bulk microfossil samples and some other misc. materials that could include dinosaurs (but I don't think so--I'm sure my staff will correct me if I am wrong). Most importantly, NO human remains are stored in the Tower or in the Museum of Paleontology. This is a continuing error that could bring some undeserved problems to us, if repeated widely, in terms of return of human remains and artifacts to native tribes. As I understand it, all human remains and artifacts at Berkeley are being dealt with or have been dealt with according to Federal legislation by the Hearst Anthropological Museum, which does house such items. Incidentally, a native American skeleton (female) was recovered from La Brea. I think it dated at 7000 BP. A nice display of it is at the Page Museum at La Brea. Thanks for calling all this to our attention. I'll run down where the WWW error is and get it changed. Jere Jere H. Lipps, Director Museum of Paleontology University of California Berkeley, California 94720 USA Voice: 510-642-9006. Fax: 510-642-1822 Internet: jlipps@ucmp1.berkeley.edu
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