Essay On Kennewick Man

115-miles south of Moab is a land revered by generations of climbers, hikers, and adventurers. It’s a land known as the Bears Ears, a series of buttes that constitute jeep trails, sacred archeological sites, unique sandstone formations, and the cherished climbing walls of Indian Creek. Not only loved by outdoorsman, the Bears Ears is also an important area to the Navajo, Ute, and Pueblo Native American tribes. Excavations here have revealed rock art, pottery, and cliff dwellings, documenting over a millennium of human habitation. The Bears Ears are loved but unprotected, and they are at a pivotal crossroads.

Kennewick Man was found on July 28, 1996 below Lake Wallula, a section of the Columbia River, in Washington. As the owners of the land, the US Army Corps of Engineers (COE) had initial control of the remains. In early inspections Kennewick man was thought to be an early European settler because of the

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"I was taken out on to the moss and shown where the previous day 's peat had been taken from. Walking the uncut sections, I found a flap of dark, tanned skin projecting from below. Reporting my discovery to the police, we agreed I would be given a day to excavate the remains. On 6 August, the site was recorded and sampled, the limits of the remains were established and Lindow Man was lifted - within his block of surrounding peat - on his way to international celebrity". (Rick Turner, newly appointed county archaeologist)

2. Reflect on the information presented in this week’s lesson and provide an insightful response to each question writing no more than two paragraphs.

Two weeks ago Charles Strange from the the Central Oregon Archaeologist experts, had found unidentified artifacts in the Deschutes river. The Archaeologist have been searching for artifacts all around Deschutes for almost 3 years looking for prehistoric and historic artifacts. When he took the artifacts back to the lab they found out that two of the artifacts were from historic times, they both went back to 1900.

“It wasn’t until 1958 that the Bigfoot legend really started to kick off in the United States. That year, a man named Gerald Crew found a set of large footprints at a construction site where he worked in California” (Upton). Gerald Crew examined the large footprints and declared the footprints were from a very big species that could have been Bigfoot. “In 1967, the ‘Patterson-Gimli film’ was captured. The film shows a tall, hairy ‘Bigfoot’ walking through the forest” (Upton). This real film of Bigfoot’s existence grabbed the public’s attention about this topic and the person captured real footage of the Bigfoot walking in the forest. “The legend of Bigfoot existed long before the European men arrived in the New World. The Coastal Indians tribes of British Columbia and in particular the Kwakiutls had carved totem poles and face masks which clearly had references to a ‘man-beast’” (Shackley). Even a long time ago, many Indian tribes living in North America have maybe have seen or heard about Bigfoot being alive and living in the woods on North American soil. Also, the man-beast face masks referenced Bigfoot's facial feautre of the

The project was reviewed and accepted by the Institutional Review Board (IRB), to work with human subjects. Additionally, this project was reviewed and accepted by the Eastern Shawnee of Oklahoma Tribal Administration and the National Historic Landmarks Program of the National Park Service allowing this project to work in accordance with Section 106 of the archaeology guidelines.

In the short story, “The Man in the Black Suit” by Stephan King, an old man named Gary retells a story of himself as a nine-year-old boy meeting the devil on the bank of castle stream. In Gary’s disturbing encounter the man in the black suit delivers some horrifying news of his mother to young Gary in efforts to eat him up. In quick haste, Gary gets away and runs into his father who did not accredit the boy’s story at first but later found himself a believer . King uses setting, point of view and language to convey to the reader his central idea of fear throughout the story.

Wisconsin, offers 2 out 3 of the oldest sites that helps prove the existence of pre-Clovis humanity and life. In 1992, Kenosha was put on the map as groundbreaking, thanks to a man named David Wasion. Wasion, helped dig up the remains of a mammoth that was originally thought to be 12,310 years old, but after more sophisticated carbon dating was done the bones were proven to be more than 14,500 years old. Yet, what was truly significant about this find, was that the bones appeared to be “butchered,” leading archeologist to conclude that the animal had been hunted and consumed by Native Americans that lived in Northern America earlier than originally believed.

In the early 1900’s, Native American skulls and bones were dug up and studied. In response to the outrage this caused, the government issued the NAGPRA or the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act. In Section 3 (OWNERSHIP) part A states, “The ownership or control of Native American cultural items which are excavated or discovered on Federal or tribal lands…[is given to] the Indian tribe that is recognized as aboriginally occupying that area in which the objects were discovered, if… such tribe claims for such remains or objects” (NAGPRA 3). In fewer words, this passage is saying that any items or remains affiliated with religion found on tribal or Federal land must be handed over to the Native Americans that have traditionally lived closest to the spot where the object/remains were found. By comparing a map of traditional tribal lands in Washington state to where Kennewick Man was found, it’s easy to see that the remains were discovered between the Palouse and Cayuse/Umatilla lands, along the Columbia River (Document #1, Figure 1, Traditional Tribal Lands in WA State Prior to White

Despite the intense efforts to uncover information on the prehistoric Native Americans occupying the Washington Coast, very little archaeological evidence has been uncovered to suggest prehistoric occupation (Cole, et.al, 1996). A finding that fiercely contrasts with the early historic record, which projects a population total of 6,000, and as such, should demonstrate heavy if not consistent findings within the region (Cole, et.al, 1996). However, this is not the case for the Washington State coastline. Despite the extent of research that has been conducted from 1976-1994, the archeological findings along the Southern Washington Coastline are nonexistent, less for what has been found upon the surface. Cole and associates attempted to find the missing link between as to where the evidence may have gone. In 1990 two geologist accidentally uncovered prehistoric fishing camps in the interdial zone, covered by mud from an earthquake that occurred 300 years ago (Cole, et.al, 1996). By studying the geophysical qualities of Southern Washington (1700 AD), Cole and associates, discover that seismic activity at the Cascadia subduction zone caused not only an earthquake, but a substantial Tsunami, which worked to bury the

9). Serpent Mound is well documented and has peaked archaeologist and other researchers interest for a long time, the first excavation dates back to Putnam in the 1890s (Herrmann and others 2014, p. 117). However, the age of construction for Serpent Mound has been a point of contestation for researchers. Researchers propose two time periods for construction, either Adena (~2,300 years ago) or Fort Ancient (~900 years ago) (Herrmann 2014, p. 119). Recently published work, as of 2017, done by Romain and others have provided strong evidence for Adena construction, radio carbon dates from GeoProbe core samples, LiDAR analyses, and electrical resistivity ground imaging surveys support their hypothesis (2017). Despite of initial construction of Serpent Mound, Hermann and Others do not deny that later Fort Ancient and other cultural groups occupied the site, making the site multi-occupational (2014,

Individuals matter: The Turkana boy’s long slender body allowed for efficient long distance running, good for a hot and humid environment, and height gave him a advantage in spotting prey and possible predators. A semi developed spinal cord shows signs of developing modern structure all enabling this hominin to have the needed adaptations to avoid predators as well kill prey.

When visiting museums such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York City we can get a first-hand look at some of the massive creatures like the wooly mammoth that used to roam our planet some 11,000 years ago. And after viewing the skeletons of such extraordinary creatures known as the megafauna we may ponder as to what event transpired to eliminate so many species. What we do know is the late Pleistocene era marked a time of fluctuating climate that coincided with the migration of people into the New World. During this period mammals such as the woolly mammoth and mastodons were becoming extinct. However, questions still remain to determine if it was because of severe climatic change, or possibly the extinctions occurred from over-hunting by humans, or possibly a combination of both? These are many of the concerns that have created the foundation for a serious debate among many scholars in the anthropology and archaeology community.