- Born: c. 7200 B.C.
- Died: c. 7200 B.C.
- Birthplace: North America
- Best known as:
The ancient human whose remains were controversial in 1996
4 good links
- Kennewick Man Virtual Interpretive Center
The Tri-City Herald has the timeline of the controversy
- Archaeology Magazine
1996 recap of the case, plus several followup articles
- The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Coming down on the side of the ancestors
- Kennewick Man
U.S. government site thick with documents
Kennewick Man Biography
In 1996, two young men found a human skull in the Columbia River, near Kennewick, Washington. The skull was determined to be over 9,000 years old; nearly all of the skeletal remains were then found and reconstructed. Native American tribes claimed the bones were those of an ancestor and wanted the bones reburied. Scientists claimed the bones were a great archeological find and wanted the bones studied further. After years of court battles, the U.S. Appeals court sided with the scientists in 2004.
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