Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World

by Sally M. Walker, Douglas W. Owsley, Stephan Pastis

Book Overview

On July 28, 1996, two young men stumbled upon human bones in the shallow water along the shore of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Was this an unsolved murder? The remnants of some settler's or Native American's unmarked grave? What was the story behind this skeleton?

Within weeks, scientific testing yielded astonishing news: the bones were more than 9,000 years old The skeleton instantly escalated from interesting to extraordinary...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761374574
• ISBN13: 9780761374572
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (R)
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary