Kennewick Man
Ancient skeleton of Indigenous American man
Kennewick Man
Kennewick Man or Ancient One was a Native American man who lived during the early Holocene whose skeletal remains were found in 1996 washed out on a bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Radiocarbon tests show the man lived about 8,400 to 8,700 years ago, making his skeleton one of the most complete ever found this old in the Americas, and thus of high scientific interest for understanding the peopling of the Americas. The discovery precipitated a nearly twenty-year-long dispute involving the Federal government, Native Americans, and scientists who wanted to study the remains. The Federal government, through the United States Army Corps of Engineers, held jurisdiction over the land where the remains were found and, thus, had legal custody. However, Native American tribes asserted legal rights to rebury the man under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), a federal law to repatriate Indian remains. Nevertheless, some members of the scientific...
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