Kennewick Man
Posted on 06/17/2002 2:13:28 PM PDT by blam
Kennewick Man
Spirit Cave Man (Believed to be related to Kennewick Man)
Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. Note the close resemblance to "Spirit Cave Man." Coincidence? :-)
Found: January 1989, at a gravel quarry near Buhl, Idaho
Age: 10,600 years
Discoverers: Highway workers
Significance: Having been reburied by Shoshone-Bannock tribes in 1991 before thorough study could occur, Buhl Woman underscores scientists' fears of losing access to ancient Paleoindian skeletons.
Dead before she turned 21, this young woman found a final resting place in a gravel bar beside the Snake River, where windblown sand and silt slowly covered her body. Her right cheek lay atop a pressure-flaked, pointed obsidian tool, perhaps made specially as a grave gift.
In life, Buhl Woman ate abundant bison and elk, as well as salmon heading upriver to spawn. Sloping surfaces and heavily worn enamel on her teeth - unusual for someone so young - indicate that her diet included frequent doses of sand or grit, as if her meat had been pounded or stoneground into a jerky.
Lines of interrupted growth on her thigh bone tell of stress from illness or malnutrition during childhood, but she grew to a height of 5'2" and otherwise enjoyed good health. What caused her death remains unknown.
(Buhl Woman was believed to have been a member of the same group as Kennewick Man and Spirit Cave Man. No facial reconstruction exists, James C. Chatters)
BUT ONE THING IS SURE! The tribes that are trying to interfere with science and with the fair use of their bones FOR science, are both obscurantist and evil, and also are unaware of their own histories, for those tribes/cultures/peoples in no case can be shown to have been in those regions for even a THOUSAND years, to say nothing of nine to twelve thousand years.
Sheesh!
Found: July 1996, in On Your Knees Cave, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
Age: 9,200 years
Discoverers: Kevin Allred and Timothy Heaton
Significance: By far the oldest human remains from Alaska or Canada, the Paleoindian bolsters the view that early immigrants journeyed over water by boat or other craft.
In a damp, cramped den called On Your Knees Cave offered shelter to people seeking refuge from the glacial climate. They camped here at least 10,000 years ago.
Black and brown bears had long occupied the cave, and perhaps the man who died here in his early 20s pursued a bear with obsidian-tipped spears. The hunter left little of his body behind - a lower jaw, some of his pelvis, ribs and backbones. No one can say how he died, but gnaw marks on his bones came from a carnivore that scavenged the remains.
Chemical signatures in bits of his jaw and pelvis reveal that Prince of Wales Island Man ate a diet heavy in seafood, rather than relying on the meat of abundant deer or bear. He had to hike a half mile to reach the coast from the cave, but tools found in and around the cave suggest that he and his cohorts were accustomed to long-distance travel.
Artifacts fashioned from a variety of exotic raw materials - obsidian, quartz, cherts and opal-like silica - that would have been unavailable on the island could mean that extensive trading had begun along the Pacific coast.
Though discovered just a few weeks before Kennewick Man, the Prince of Wales Island Man has traveled a much less contentious and controversial path to reveal a few clues about the earliest Americans. Alaskan tribal representatives agreed to have his remains examined and dated, and to participate in continuing excavations.
The ironic part is that they do more to discredit their side with trying to sweep it under the rug rather then by leaving it out for people to see and study.
It might have been nothing. Thanks to the attempts to cover it up it is now Something.
a.cricket
What is emerging is a horrifying picture of the ancestor's of today's "Indians" having come to the Americas thousands of years after earlier migrations and promptly murdering everyone they found.
We already know that the "Indians" systematically drove to extinction every large game animal in the Americas except for the bison. So much for the "living in harmony with nature" crap we've been fed for 40 years.
Don't you know that bad weather killed all those large mammals?
Or maybe it was the 'Ice-People'. lol
The clock is ticking on this racist horsesh*t; once folks start to laugh, it'll be over. ;^)
a.cricket
We already know that the "Indians" systematically drove to extinction every large game animal in the Americas except for the bison. So much for the "living in harmony with nature" crap we've been fed for 40 years.
I think the jury is still out on the murdering and the cause of the extinctions of the large mammals. Chatters, in his book, Ancient Encounters, makes note that the skeletons and partial skeletons (of this Kennewick Man group) indicate that many have severe damage (mostly deadly) to the left side of the skull. All female skeletons found were/are under 24 years of age. The American Indians (Northern China descendents) begin to show up in the fossil record 3-4,000 years after the Kennewick man group. Kennewick Man is believed to be from the Joman/Ainu people from around the area of Japan. (Not China)
Yup. Didn't make sense to me either. One-half-mile isn't too far to walk for breakfast, huh?
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