These pages are developed to give you some insight into the controversies facing archaeologists today.
Should museum collections have objects that were not discovered scientifically? Is it important to know where an object was recovered to comprehend the meaning of an object?
The Kennewick Man controversy includes many of the modern and ancient problems that archaeologists still debate. When were the
Americas populated? Who populated them? When are indigenous rights more important than archaeological data, and vice versa?
The prehistory of Mesoamerica is complicated, and the place of the Olmec as the 'mother' culture of all the others, or simply a 'sister' culture to the Toltec and Maya is at the heart of the complication.
