Kennewick Man

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several times and recovered a near complete skeleton. At first the nineteenth century artifacts led him to believe that the skeleton was from the same time period, but then he noticed that the bones were discolored and there was soil adhering to them. This indicated that they were not as recent as the late nineteenth century (Slayman).
Chatters began to clean and study the skeleton to try to learn as much as he could about it. As he did this he noted that it appeared that this person was male, around fifty years old when he died, and he was about five feet ten inches tall. He also noticed upon examination of the pelvic structure that there was a piece of a projectile embedded in the bone (The ). When he did a x-ray nothing appeared so he knew it was not metal. The bone had fused over portions of the embedded projectile showing that it had been present for several years before death (The ). Next while he examined the skull he noted that it was long and narrow with a ...

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