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KENNEWICK MAN CLASS ROOM FORMAT AAPS OCTOBER 2008. Kennewick Man, The Power of First Impressions. By Rick Osmon, Moderator, blogtalkradio.comloopa.loopa.cafe Scholar of many topics about Ancient America. On July 28, 1996 two young men found a - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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KENNEWICK MAN
CLASS ROOM FORMAT
AAPS
OCTOBER 2008
Kennewick Man, The Power of First Impressions
By Rick Osmon,Moderator, blogtalkradio.comloopa.loopa.cafeScholar of many topics about Ancient America
On July 28, 1996two young men
found a human skull in the Columbia River at Kennewick, WA.
James Chatters, a forensic anthropologist, was invited to conduct skeletal forensics.He recovered scattered bones and began to make observations
WASHINGTON
KENNEWICK
YAKIMA
Possible European traits:
how the nose projected
how the face projected,
narrow face, delicate lower jaw,
long, narrow cranium,
absence of flaring
cheekbones.
KENNEWICK MAN HAD
PROJECTILE POINT
LEAF SHAPED
IN BUTTOCK
COMMON BUT OLD
CALCIFIED INTO BONE
MAN NOT A RECENT SETTLER
PROJECTILE POINT
SERRATED CASCADE PROJECTILE
TYPICAL 8500 BP TO 4500 BP
BUT SIMILAR STYLES IN USE
IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
INTO NINETEENTH CENTURY
COMMUNICATIONSFORENSICS EXPERT (CHATTERS) CORONER ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AMERICAN INDIANS
SKELETON WAS NOT LIKEAMERICAN INDIAN or
Was a TRAPPER EXPLORER
RADIO CARBON and DNA tests ordered
RADIO CARBON RESULTS
8410 +/- 60 BP
SO …..
MUST BE AMERICAN INDIAN
SUBJECT TO
NATIVE AMERICAN
GRAVES PROTECTION ACT
NAGPRA
ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS
“PULLED OUT ALL STOPS”
TO GIVE BONES TO
AMERICAN INDIANS
UNDER NAGPRA
SO BONES COULD BE
SWIFTLY REBURIED.
DNA
Repeated test results not accepted.
Always caucasoid ?
Gov. blamed contamination
Contamination is problem.
Why all the hubbub. Bub?
If KM is not American Indian, then social, cultural, and legal factors are affected.
KM ethincity can upset recognition of tribal rights.
Also questions national Legal status.
Robson Bonnichsen:
"that the earliest inhabitants of this continent may have no modern descendants. . . .
Multiple colonizing groups appear to be represented and
many of the oldest studied skeletons have strong Caucasian skeletal features."
CONCLUSION
KENNEWICK MAN APPEARSTO BE CAUCASIAN