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Article: Kennewick Man: Boneheaded.(decision to restore Kennewick Man to Native Americans is not wise)(Brief Article)(Column)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2000
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AT 9,300 years, Kennewick Man is even older than Thomas Bayes. But in some ways he is as modern as Madonna. He has, for example, got his own personal website. He is fashionably championed by an array of native American tribes in the north-western United States. And he will soon be a key, albeit silent, figure in a pivotal lawsuit. It seems the perfect resume for the new millennium.
Kennewick Man's bones were found in 1996 in a riverbank near the town of Kennewick in Washington state. At first, he was thought to be a dead white settler, but radiocarbon tests showed that he was actually one of the oldest humans found in North America. Moreover, his ...