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Article: Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity.
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- Oregon Historical Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native
American Identity, by David Hurst Thomas
Basic Books, New York, 2000. Illustrations, photographs,
bibliography, index. 366 pages. $25.00 cloth, $18.00 paper.
Although the word Kennewick appears in the title, David Hurst Thomas's book is not about Kennewick Man, or the Ancient One, as Native Americans on the Columbia Plateau prefer to call the very old human remains now at the heart of one of the most bitter custody battles in anthropological/archaeological history. Thomas's purpose is deeper. Skull Wars is a history, spanning the past two centuries or more, of the relationship between American ...