Garry Nolan: Atacama Mummy Mystery

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So the first thing I did when I got the um x-rays of the young girl, this is the adakama. The otakama mummy, right, was that I checked with some people at the in the department of radiology and I said, "Hey, um, who can I talk to about this?" I said, "Well, you know, it turns out that we have the world's expert now working with us." I took the X-rays to him and he said, "Well, this is unusual." But he didn't laugh me out of the room. He said, "It might be interesting." So, I said, "Okay, let's do it." So, I arranged then to get a piece of um uh of the rib and uh you know proceeded to do the the genetics. So, a lot of the stuff that I initially thought was unknown were actually explainable by bringing in the experts. You know, it's in science.

Knowing the limit of your knowledge and your capability is how you do good science. Now that we know this is a young girl, this should be returned to Chile and it should be given proper burial rights. It shouldn't be a circus