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Kennewick Man: coming to closure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2015

David J. Meltzer
David J. Meltzer*
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Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, PO Box 750336, Dallas, TX 75275, USA (Email: dmeltzer@mail.smu.edu)
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Few human remains from the distant past have achieved the public visibility and notoriety of Kennewick Man (the Ancient One). Since his discovery in July 1996 in the state of Washington, he has appeared on one of America's best-known television news programmes, 60 Minutes. He has been on the cover of Time magazine and in the pages of People, Newsweek and The New York Times. He has been the subject of popular press books (Downey 2000; Thomas 2000; Chatters 2001), and for many years running there were almost annual updates on his whereabouts and status in Science (some 30 in the decade following his discovery). That is saying nothing of the scholarly notice and debate he has drawn (e.g. Swedlund & Anderson 1999; Owsley & Jantz 2001; Steele & Powell 2002; Watkins 2004; Burke et al. 2008), including a recently issued tome marking the culmination of almost a decade of study (Owsley & Jantz 2014a).

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Antiquity , Volume 89 , Issue 348 , December 2015 , pp. 1485 - 1493
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2015 

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