Kennewick Man : The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton.

Front Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Establishing Context -- 1. The People Who Peopled America -- 2. Geography, Paleoecology, and Archaeology -- 3. Chronology of the Kennewick Man Skeleton -- 4. The Precedent- Setting Case of Kennewick Man -- 5. Reflections of a Former US Army Corps of Engineers Archaeologist -- 6. Curation History and Overview of the Plaintiffs' Studies -- Studying Skeletal Evidence -- 7. Skeletal Inventory, Morphology, and Pathology -- 8. Dentition -- 9. Dental Microwear -- 10. Orthodontics -- 11. Body Mass, Stature, and Proportions of the Skeleton -- 12. Reconstructing Habitual Activities by Biomechanical Analysis of Long Bones -- 13. Bones of the Hands and Feet -- 14. The Natural Shocks That Flesh Is Heir To -- 15. Occupational Stress Markers and Patterns of Injury -- 16. Stable Isotopic Evidence for Diet and Origin -- 17. Taphonomic Indicators of Burial Context -- 18. Benthic Aquatic Algae: Indicators of Recent Taphonomic History -- 19. Postmortem Breakage as a Taphonomic Tool for Determining Burial Position -- Applying Technology to Interpretation -- 20. Computed Tomography, Visualization, and 3D Modeling -- 21. Prototype Accuracy and Reassembly -- 22. Molding and Casting Methods -- 23. The Point of the Story -- Incorporating Population Data -- 24. The Ainu and Jōmon Connection -- 25. Cranial Morphometric Evidence for Early Holocene Relationships and Population Structure -- 26. Two- Dimensional Geometric Morphometrics -- 27. Morphological Features That Reflect Population Affinities -- 28. Identity Through Science and Art -- Learning From Early holocene Contemporaries -- 29. Evidence of Maritime Adaptation and Coastal Migration from Southeast Alaska -- Anticipating Kennewick Man's Future -- 31. Storage and Care at the Burke Museum -- 32. Who Was Kennewick Man? -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Back Cover.

Written for a discerning professional audience, yet the absorbing story of the remains, their discovery, their curation history, and the extensive amount of detail that skilled scientists have been able to glean from them will appeal to interested and informed general readers. These bones lay silent for nearly 9,000 years, but now, with the aid of dedicated researchers, they can speak about the life of one of the earliest human occupants of North America.

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