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Article: OFFICIALLY, KENNEWICK MAN EXPECTED TO GO NATIVE CARBON DATING RESULTS TO BE ANNOUNCED TODAY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 13, 2000
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The bones known as Kennewick Man are about 9,300 years old, federal officials will announce today, making the old guy legally a Native American.
But confirmation of his age through radiocarbon dating won't end the custody battle and scientific nitpicking that has plagued Kennewick Man since he tumbled out of a Columbia River embankment in July 1996.
``We have four other studies under way right now,'' said Frank McManamon, the U.S. Department of the Interior's chief archaeologist and lead scientist on an expert panel trying to determine whether Kennewick Man is an ancestor of modern-day Native Americans.
The studies are part of an ongoing ...