Editing Mummy (section)

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[[Spirit Cave mummy|Spirit Cave Man]] was discovered in 1940 during salvage work prior to [[guano]] mining activity that was scheduled to begin in the area. The mummy is a middle-aged male, found completely dressed and lying on a blanket made of animal skin. Radiocarbon tests in the 1990s dated the mummy to being nearly 9,000 years old. The remains were held at the [[Nevada State Museum, Carson City|Nevada State Museum]], though the local Native American community began petitioning to have the remains returned and reburied in 1995.<ref name=Spirit>{{cite web|title=Spirit Cave Man|url=http://museums.nevadaculture.org/new_exhibits/cc-UnderOneSky/spiritcave.htm|publisher=Nevada State Museum|access-date=12 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112081148/http://museums.nevadaculture.org/new_exhibits/cc-UnderOneSky/spiritcave.htm|archive-date=12 November 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Muska /><ref name=Asher>{{cite web |last=Asher |first=Laura |title=Oldest North American Mummy |url=http://archive.archaeology.org/9609/newsbriefs/nevada.html |work=Archaeology |publisher=Archaeological Institute of America |access-date=12 November 2013 |year=1996}}</ref> When the Bureau of Land Management did not repatriate the mummy in 2000, the [[Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony|Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe]] sued under the [[Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act]]. After [[DNA sequencing]] determined that the remains were in fact related to modern Native Americans, they were repatriated to the tribe in 2016.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Callaway |first1=Ewen |title=North America's oldest mummy returned to US tribe after genome sequencing |journal=Nature |date=December 2016 |volume=540 |issue=7632 |pages=178–179 |doi=10.1038/540178a |s2cid=89286088 |url=https://www.nature.com/news/north-america-s-oldest-mummy-returned-to-us-tribe-after-genome-sequencing-1.21108 |access-date=17 September 2020}}</ref>