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...Chatters first saw the partial skeleton that no crime had been committed - none recent enough to be prosecutable, anyway. Chatters, a forensic anthropologist, had been called in by the coroner of Benton County, Wash., to consult on some bones found by two college students on the banks of the Columbia River, near the town of Kennewick. The bones were obviously old, and when the coroner asked for an opinion, Chatters' off-the-cuff guess, based on the skull's superficially Caucasoid features, was that they probably belonged to a settler from the late 1800s...
...University of California at Riverside for radiocarbon dating. When the results came back, it was clear that his estimate was dramatically off the mark. The bones weren't 100 or even 1,000 years old. They belonged to a man who had walked the banks of the Columbia more than 9,000 years ago. (See pictures of ancient skeletons...
...government researchers examined the bones, but it would take almost a decade for independent scientists to get a good look at the skeleton. Although it was found in the summer of 1996, the local Umatilla Indians and four other Columbia Basin tribes almost immediately claimed it as ancestral remains under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, demanding that the skeleton be reburied without the desecration of scientific study. A group of researchers sued, starting a legal tug-of-war and negotiations that ended only last summer, with the scientists getting their first extensive access to the bones...
...terms of a collaborative effort and a group of guys who believed in the service of their team by practicing hard and being part of the team unconditionally. There are a lot of guys who deserve to play.” The Crimson finishes its season today against Columbia. If the losing streak continues against the Lions, Harvard may find itself in the Ivy League cellar. Saturday’s game will be the final appearance for captain Matt Stehle and fellow seniors Michael Beal and Zach Martin. “This game is real important for the seniors, more...
...major case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to be argued on March 22 - a case that many observers believe will ultimately end up in front of the Supreme Court - the government is expected to argue that the reliability of statements like al-Qahtani's should not even be considered...