Drawn against this complex background, it’s no wonder it’s taken almost two decades to bring the Kennewick Man story into better focus. Long history of scientizing some human remains Museums ...

"The Man From Kennewick" sounds like the title of a mystery story. And so it is . . . a mystery whose origins go way, way back. Chip Reid has been doing some digging: Eighteen years ago two ...

"The early history of museum collecting of Native ... approved (though very brief and highly constricted) look at Kennewick Man, and what they learned is truly amazing. Based on the shape of ...

ELLENSBURG – Not only was the ancient human known as Kennewick Man not Native American ... Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, to meet with them and discuss his findings.

The discovery, known as Kennewick Man, launched a lengthy legal dispute between scientists and Native Americans over the origins of the remains and what to do with them. The 20-year saga came to ...

Preliminary radiocarbon dating suggests that Kennewick man lived about 9,300 calendar ... valuable for deducing an individual's evolutionary history. So far, key skeletal remains — particularly ...

For starters, Kennewick Man was buff. I mean, really beefcake. So says Doug Owsley, head of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the man who led the ...

But past efforts to glean ancient DNA from Kennewick Man failed, notes Eske Willerslev, a palaeogenomicist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, who led the current study.

Scientists oppose reburial, saying there is still so much more to be learned about Kennewick Man, from just where a ... determined to be of Native American origin, as the tribes insist.

His co-editor, Douglas Owsley, a forensic anthropologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, agrees with that assessment of Kennewick Man: “He was a long-distance traveller.” ...

To the editor —A recent editorial advised that Kennewick Man should be returned to the Indians as one of their own. To this I take exception, that he is not one of them. James Adair, an English ...