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<< Other Photo Pages >> Columbia Park - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in The West

Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 13 November 2006  Page Views: 10016

Multi-periodSite Name: Columbia Park
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 67.731 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The West Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kennewick, WA
Latitude: 46.224600N  Longitude: 119.1637W
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Columbia Park submitted by bat400_photo : Columbia Park, Kennewick, Washington, Blue Bridge in the background. Date: 28 May 2005 Author: Bobjgalindo This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A Site of Historic Note in Benton County, Washington. This is the location of what may be considered one of the top American Archaeology finds of the 20th Century - the skeleton known as Kennewick Man.

Dating to over 9000 years ago, this is one of the oldest, nearly complete sets of human remains found in the Americas. The legal fight for the disposition of Kennewick Man has gone on for 10 years, testing the limits of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA.) In 2005, the courts determined that the connection between the remains and modern American Indians claiming the remains was unproven. This has allowed the further study of the skeleton by forensic archaeologists.

Columbia Park is a developed city park on the banks of the Columbia River. The entire shoreline at Columbia Park is accessible; the location given here is not specifically the find site. There is not much to see, but it is an interesting location of historical and political note, as well as prehistory.

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National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior Archaeology Program Website on Kennewick Man. This site is now out of date (2004) but includes links to most of the earlier investigative reports that have been written on the remains, including several physical examinations, DNA study, and C14 Dating.
The Burke Museum Website on Kennewick Man includes archives of published studies and legal findings, including new progress.
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Jawbone find near Kennewick Man site, raises potential of new controversy by bat400 on Tuesday, 08 November 2011
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Federal archaeologists are investigating a jawbone that was discovered recently along the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington State. The human remains were found a short distance from where Kennewick Man was discovered in 1996 and sparked a decade-long legal conflict.

The jawbone with six worn teeth was spotted in shallow water by a jail ‘work crew’ carrying out a routine park cleanup. Kennewick Police and the Benton County coroner quickly determined the bone belonged to an adult human, but was too old to connect to any modern crime.

Archaeologists from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took jurisdiction as the landowners.

Army Corps spokeswoman Gina Baltrusch says it is pure “speculation” to connect the single bone to any era or people at this point, or to Kennewick Man.

“Basically, it is too soon to know. We’ll follow the law and we are treating these remains with respect,” she said.

A retired archaeologist who investigated the ancient Kennewick Man fears the Army Corps will quickly turn the bone over to a local tribe for reburial without sufficient study. But Jim Chatters says it’s not worth it to him to do battle over one bone.

Tribal leaders argue strenuously that their spiritual traditions demand such remains be put back to rest as soon as possible.

A pair of college students discovered the skeletal remains of Kennewick Man in the summer of 1996, while watching hydroplane races. The existence of these bones sparked controversy over scientific conventional wisdom about early humans in the Americas and over who had rightful claim to the bones, the U.S. government or the local Umatilla Indians of the Columbia plateau.

Radiocarbon testing indicates the remains of Kennewick Man are about 9,300 years old, making the individual among the oldest humans identified so far on this continent. The date of these bones questioned the conventional wisdom of how and when early humans arrived to American continents.

The Kennewick Man is one of a growing number of ancient skeletons that some scientists say are so unlike ancestors of modern-day Native Americans that they may represent an entirely new branch on the human family tree.

The remains of these Paleo-Americans, according to some archeologists, closely resemble people who lived in southern and central Asia, while modern Native Americans more closely resemble people from Northeast Asia.

This leads to a few possibilities. Paleo-Americans could be an earlier wave of migrants from Asia, a single wave of migrants who settled down and changed over time, or a group totally unrelated to modern-day Native Americans.

The discovery of these skeletons has furthered scientific debate over the exact origin and history of early Native American people.

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