Kennewick Man | Tri Cities Washington Columbia Park Skeleton Discovery

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In one prominent case involving ancient skeletal remains, the debate over lineal descent ended up in a court of law. The remains, known as Kennewick Man, were found in 1996 on the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, on property belonging to the federal government. A skull and more than 300 bones and bone fragments were found at the site, making up among the oldest, best preserved, and most complete human remains ever found in North America. ~Encarta

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Kennewick Man

The history of the Kennewick Wa area includes the fascinating ~Kennewick Man~, a skeleton that has been dated as being 9, 200. This cultural artifact was unearthed in Columbia Park, July 28, 1996, and has received large amounts of international attention. Of intense interest is that the fossil appears to have Caucasian The Kennewick Man features, despite being labelled an indigenous dweller thought to have lived over 9,000 years ago.

The Kennewick find is still a matter of controversy as to who actually has ownership rights. Its discovery was an accident brought about by observers at the annual hydroplane race who spotted the skull whilst the races were on.

The current Kennewick Man debate is in regards to the relationship of American Indian religious obligations and the science of archaeology. At present, the Native American Graves and Protection and Repatriation Act has enabled 5 American Indian groups to claim the remains (the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Yakama, Wannapum, and Colville). Each tribe claims that the remains are theirs, and that they require burial by traditional means.

The United States Court of Appeals ruled that a cultural link could not be established in February of 2004. As such, more scientific research has been called upon, although it remains unclear as to how the cultural elements of the debate are being included. The Kennewick Man remains can be viewed at the Burke Museum at the University of Washington.

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Skull Wars Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity

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Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans

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No Bone Unturned: The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons

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Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of Kennewick Man

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Tri-City Herald and the Kennewick Man: The Kennewick Man Virtual Interpretive Center
NPS Archeology Program: Kennewick Man: The human skeletal remains that have come to be referred to as the "Kennewick Man", or the "Ancient One", were found in July, 1996 below the surface of Lake Wallula, a section of the Columbia River pooled behind McNary Dam in Kennewick, Washington...
Kennewick Man: Encounter with an Ancestor | The discovery of a human ancestor variously referred to as Kennewick or Richland Man has shed light on the complexity of human immigration to the western hemisphere and ignited a controversy...
NOVA Online | Mystery of the First Americans | Meet Kennewick Man: Rarely do the ravages of time allow us to gaze directly upon the faces of our remote predecessors. Except for those few who have been frozen in the arctic, pickled in the peat bogs of Northern Europe, or sculpted by their skilled contemporaries, all we have of earlier peoples' visages are their bare, often fragmentary skulls...
Kennewick Man and the New World Entrada: The Kennewick Man case of Washington state is but the tip of the ice berg for the New World Entrada controversy. Who occupied the American continents first and where did they come from are questions which are intricately connected with the rights of indigenous Native American peoples who lived here...
Kennewick Man - Burke Museum: The Burke museum hosted a group of scientists from around the country who came to study the Kennewick Man remains. The Burke provided access and professional assistance to the scientists over a period of ten days...
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists finally study Kennewick Man: After a legal battle that lasted nearly eight years, scientists finally get to study the ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man...
Online NewsHour: Kennewick Man: The remains have been the center of a legal scuffle between scientists, who say studying Kennewick Man will provide further insight into early human life, and the federal government, which wants to give the bones to a Native American tribe...
New Nation News - Kennewick Man - aboriginal Caucasian in Pacific Northwest: News and backround on the 'Kennewick Man'

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