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Aboriginal Man Found in Glacier Has 17 Living Relatives

theglobeandmail.com — Scientists have found a direct link between the frozen remains of a man found in a glacier in northern B.C. and 17 people living in B.C., Yukon and Alaska.

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  • T8erT0T, on 04/30/2008, -1/+32Pics of glacier man dammit!
  • xpose, on 04/30/2008, -10/+8Hi Grandpa.
    • blinky04, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1...
      We all know that Aboriginals cannot comprehend the internet.
  • atact88, on 04/30/2008, -37/+1DNA - BAD BAD BAD BAD BIG BROTHER BUSHCO OIL GOLBAL WARMING FDA EVIL
    • Myonosken, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1*****. Its like Digg's politics section gave birth.
  • senkmajer, on 04/30/2008, -3/+34Wow, wow, and wow. How cool it is to have the tools at our disposal to learn something such as this.
    • Mustard911, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1I was amazed some nutter new age scientist didn't claim the find was millions and millions of years old.
  • Nhmarine, on 04/30/2008, -15/+3OMG, people have descendants? I never knew!......
    • jdmcadam, on 04/30/2008, -1/+8Hopefully you won't.
      • juniorb, on 04/30/2008, -2/+3Ooh sick burn. *****, that stung me a bit.
      • Nhmarine, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1OMG, that was great, and I say this with all seriousness.
  • Antwan718, on 04/30/2008, -7/+21It's a freezer geasear.
    • MSweerts, on 04/30/2008, -0/+12That's "geezer". Trust me, I'm one of them :o)
      • skyfox2k, on 04/30/2008, -0/+5Anyone that asks for trust and also ends his post with a rotund smiley is catagorically not a 'geezer'.
        • flangepiece, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1depends if it's prefixed with "diamond" or "old"...
      • minorthreat, on 04/30/2008, -0/+13I dunno man, smiley faces are so 1999, he's probably been using them since the 60's. Adding them to punch cards and ***** back in the day.
    • Smeed, on 04/30/2008, -5/+1Moleman from The Simpson?
    • PeppermintPig, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Something about old frozen irish folklore?
  • mattes5, on 04/30/2008, -1/+94Well at least we know he got some before he froze to death
    • petrodollar, on 04/30/2008, -2/+28Are they definitely his descendants? They might simply share a common ancestor.
      • mattes5, on 04/30/2008, -1/+18Petrodollar you always ruin a good time...
    • mclev, on 04/30/2008, -0/+30He was gonna get some more, but his wives decided that he was too frigid.
      • mattes5, on 04/30/2008, -0/+8wait... did you just steal a Mr. Freeze line from Batman & Robin?
  • OfNumbers, on 04/30/2008, -0/+36I don't recall getting screened for genetic relation with this person.
    • 0nl1n3Pr3s3nc3, on 04/30/2008, -0/+0I was thinking the same thing.
    • boogie606, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1they did screen, and found a kinship with a mastodon...
  • lnappropriate, on 04/30/2008, -15/+1Must not have been much of the stud if after millions of years he only has 17 living relatives. In fact, he's much like us diggers :)
    • senkmajer, on 04/30/2008, -0/+10He died only 150-350 years ago.
    • noahgelman, on 04/30/2008, -0/+4Maybe your problem isnt that your a digger but that you cant read an article
  • babylonian, on 04/30/2008, -6/+11Kind of gives "Living in B.C." a funny dual meaning.
    • bromac, on 04/30/2008, -0/+18Except he's from the 17th century at the earliest and perhaps as recent as 1850.
  • Antwan718, on 04/30/2008, -11/+4It's a freezer geasear.
    • Samsong, on 04/30/2008, -3/+1Yeh... I'm the kind of person who diggs comments like that. I can admit it.
  • mistergoodburge, on 04/30/2008, -16/+1Aboriginal? Never heard of that country before
    • flangepiece, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Aboriginia? It's just north of Belmland.
  • nineonenine, on 04/30/2008, -12/+3next they'll be telling us that evolution is real....
    • juniorb, on 04/30/2008, -1/+2I'm digging you up, because I got the joke.
  • Croecop, on 04/30/2008, -6/+19***** Paulie Shore
    • dynelol, on 04/30/2008, -2/+7You go right ahead.
    • threemagic, on 04/30/2008, -2/+10Dave: You took him to Mega Mountain? Are you crazy?
      Stoney: Yeah, 'cause they're ridin' The Vapor in reverse.
      Dave: They are?
      Stoney: Unh-huh!
      Dave: Oh, cool!
      Link: Check out the fresh nugs, wheezin' the juice...
      Stoney, Link: [howling together] Oooooooowwwwww! Bud-dy
  • PauliAnna, on 04/30/2008, -2/+4melting glaciers: bad bad bad.
  • debuggercll, on 04/30/2008, -1/+10It turns out that frozen guy was the leader of a huge cult or something and now these days those 17 battle each other for the throne.
    • Y0tsuya, on 04/30/2008, -1/+6Yeah, in the end, there can be only one
    • GvnMcCld, on 04/30/2008, -1/+5Sounds like Fox's new reality show...
  • gregdogum, on 04/30/2008, -2/+3I knew the Sutter family had long bloodlines dating back a while back, but wow, never would have I thought they went back that far.
  • bjstiktrix, on 04/30/2008, -8/+3"My uncles a caveman. Whats up now?"
    • bobcrotch, on 04/30/2008, -7/+1You still suck ***** for a living. Nothings changed.
  • bromac, on 04/30/2008, -1/+6While this is cool, and I actually know some of these people, the "link between cultures" bit is pushing it a bit.

    Native bands in the Yukon (Teslin-Tlingit, Champagne and Aishihik, and the Carcross-Tagish First Nation) are pretty much just amalgamations of the native people in those particular regions. Teslin and Carcross are towns in the Yukon, and does Champagne sound like a native term to you? The native population in the Yukon dwindled so much that they pretty much just took whomever was around in to form a band. Of course that'll create links across the Yukon and Alaska.

    Still, it's pretty awesome to trace your lineage back that far.
    • juniorb, on 04/30/2008, -0/+3It would blow me away to be able to stand in the same room as the preserved body of my great-great-great-great-great grandfather. I know almost nothing of my ancestry prior to 1880.
  • gtlogic, on 04/30/2008, -9/+20How is this news? A 300 year old man has living relatives. Put it this way, you could uncover any family grave and link the bones to the present day family. So what?
    • lazlonger, on 04/30/2008, -1/+5you're right. screw those who bury you. at leat i took you from -3 to -2.....

      AND you're being generous on top of it. if he died in 1850 and the article says is possible, the difference in years is only 158 years.....hardly worth mentioning.
      • juniorb, on 04/30/2008, -0/+13I agree. Reading "Aboriginal man Found in Glacier Has 17 Living Relatives," I'm thinking this guy died 3,000 years ago.
  • brwright, on 04/30/2008, -6/+8See? Global warming is actually a good thing!
  • thestranger, on 04/30/2008, -11/+3Yea of course they are related to this guy, we all are. His name is Adam and he died about 6000 years ago.

    JK!
  • jabberwolf, on 04/30/2008, -2/+2Looks like the seed doesn't fall far from the tree-
    At least not in those parts!

    Do they play banjos also?
  • mrgeekguy, on 04/30/2008, -8/+2In a related note, the relatives have filed a lawsuit against British Columbia for wrongful death of their ancestor.
    • juniorb, on 04/30/2008, -1/+6Meh, almost. Let me have a go.

      "On a related note, the man's descendants have filed suit against the glacier for wrongful death." Nope, still not funny. Oh well, we tried. Can't say we didn't try.
  • robwolf100, on 04/30/2008, -9/+8Wow, he must of really wanted to play the Nintendo Wii.
    • anachronaut, on 04/30/2008, -5/+3When you wrote "must of", you were incorrectly writing out an aberrant contraction you've created in your mind of "must have" or "must've".

      Just thought you might like to know for future usage, because it makes you look pretty damned ignorant to say "must of" or "should of" or anything else like that unless you're deliberately trying to sound colloquial and/or uneducated.
      • csw1342, on 04/30/2008, -1/+5Kinda makes you look like a jerk.
      • Discobiscuits, on 04/30/2008, -1/+3When you corrected "robwolf100" you made yourself look like another typical dumbass who lurks digg, correcting comment after comment.

        You win... nothing.
      • Myonosken, on 04/30/2008, -1/+2Holy *****, ultra nazi.
  • HELLATIGHT, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Why did they keep saying Strand/Stand?
    • danmaskell, on 04/30/2008, -0/+0Relying on spell-check rather than proof-reading.
  • robwolf100, on 04/30/2008, -11/+6WOW, he must really want to play the Nintendo Wii.
  • withears, on 04/30/2008, -8/+6No Geico comment yet? (I'll bet I get more Diggs than ANYONE EVAR!)
  • mcse2k3, on 04/30/2008, -2/+9Even a caveman can do it....
  • Owwmykneecap, on 04/30/2008, -5/+4One of the people he is related to is Brendan Fraser
  • JezusGhoti, on 04/30/2008, -0/+11So many comments about this guy being a caveman. Do people just Digg stuff without reading it? Nevermind, I know the answer. I'll help you out. The article clearly says "he's believed to have died some time between the years 1670 and 1850." Hardly a caveman.
  • kymike, on 04/30/2008, -1/+6He's the last goddamn Cylon.
  • exomni, on 04/30/2008, -1/+2Just couldn't wait patiently for the release date like everyone else, could he?
  • juniorb, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1I wish I knew more about my ancestors, like when they arrived in America and why the hell they weren't wealthy by the time I came around. I know I'm mostly Welsh, which explains the pale skin and seasonal affective disorder, but that's about it.
  • Contajeerus, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Photoshop the remains of any fossil into your family photos for only $69.99!!
  • vivalagoat, on 04/30/2008, -5/+2dirty abbos cant afford condoms.
  • DiscoJohn, on 04/30/2008, -0/+4Oh my god it's John McCain's little brother
  • BillC0sby, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1screenshot or it didnt happen
  • hypoxide, on 04/30/2008, -2/+0One of the 17 relatives probably killed him, dressed him up in some rags and put him out on the glacier to cover it up
  • ChayesFSS, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1encino man nods his head in approval
  • cnorris1, on 04/30/2008, -0/+0The relatives are in court now fighting over who gets his flint knife and pointy stick
  • mojotooth, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Now that this guy is unfrozen, any chance he's going back to school for a law degree? If so then I think they're just dramatizing a skit from SNL.
  • TweekyD, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Jeeez .. that's some ***** grammar. Was it written in Aboriginal?
  • novenator, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Everybody is related to everybody else if we go far enough back. Gives new meaning to the term 'keep it in the family'.
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