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Kennewick Man or Ancient One[nb 1] was a Native American man who lived during the early Holocene, whose skeletal remains were found washed out on a bank of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington, on July 28, 1996.
In the summer of 1996, two college students in Kennewick, Washington, stumbled on a human skull while wading in the shallows along the Columbia River. They called the police.
More than a decade ago, Native Americans lost their claim for custody of this 8500-year-old skeleton from Washington state, when a federal appeals court ruled there was no evidence he was related to any modern tribe. Now, after several false starts, researchers have succeeded in sequencing Kennewick Man's genome.
The Kennewick Man, once described as North America’s most important skeleto n, has finally found its kin. New DNA evidence says this fossil is most closely related to modern-day Native...
A legal saga involving five Native American tribes and a group of scientists—which may now be drawing to a close —began on July 28, 1996. On that day, exactly 20 years ago, their differences ...
On July 28, 1996, two men at Columbia Park in Kennewick, Washington, accidentally found part of a human skull on the bottom of the Columbia River, about ten feet from shore. Later searches revealed a nearly complete, ancient skeleton, now known as “The Ancient One” or “Kennewick Man.”
Known as Kennewick Man, the 9,000-year-old Paleoamerican was unearthed in 1996 in the city of Kennewick, Washington. But the discovery was more than a thrilling moment for archaeologists—it...
The 1996 discovery of an ancient skeleton near Washington state's Columbia River sparked 20 years of legal battles between scientists and Native Americans: Scientists hoped to research the 9000-year-old human remains, while a coalition of tribes wanted to rebury "Kennewick Man," who they considered an ancestor.
The 1996 discovery of Kennewick Man, one of the oldest North American human skeletons ever found, erupted in an unprecedented fight between scientists and Native American beliefs.
A man who lived 8,500 years ago along the Columbia River in what is now central Washington's Tri-Cities area became the center of worldwide attention and heated controversy following the 1996 discovery of his nearly complete skeleton at a riverside park in Kennewick.