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BookmarkSince its discovery in 1996, the issues surrounding Kennewick Man have grown ever more complicated and controversial.
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Out of this fracas comes Skull Wars, David Hurst Thomas's masterful contribution to the debate.
The book is sure to stir passions even as it seeks to offer a better way for archeologists, anthropologists, and Native Americans to work together in the future.
When it was determined that Kennewick Man, a skeleton with Caucasoid features discovered near Kennewick, Washington, was estimated to be more than 9,000 years old, it effectively lobbed a grenade into the already tense arena of the origins of the pre-Columbus peoples of the United States.
Thomas, curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, leads the reader through the development of American anthropology and archeology, the many reinterpretations of Native Americans by non-Indians, an assertion of native rights, and the eventual intercession of the federal government, ironically, as protective party.
Skull Wars is a gripping account of the way race, scientific practice, history, and politics converged around an ancient skeleton.
--Julia Riches .
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