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Study hopes to piece together lifestyle of Kennewick Man PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Thursday, 02 March 2006
Next phase - Researchers will look at how the bones of a 9,300-year-old man compare with other skeletons
March 01, 2006

RICHARD L. HILL
SEATTLE -- The first study of Kennewick Man is complete, and scientists are eager to move to the next phase. They have taken precise measurements of the ancient hunter's cranium and other bones and will compare them with other prehistoric and modern skeletons. "Kennewick Man looks quite different from other early skeletons we have in our database," said Richard Jantz, a professor at the University of Tennessee, "so we want to know why."

He theorizes there were multiple migrations by different peoples into the Western Hemisphere in the past 15,000 years, and the 380 bones and bone fragments that make up the 9,300-year-old skeleton will help answer questions about the origins of some of those earliest Americans.

Jantz said the first Americans possibly arrived by boat as well as a now submerged land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. "The main mistake has been underestimating the ability of early people to get from one place to another," he said.

Last week, Jantz and about 15 other scientists from across the United States took detailed images and measurements of Kennewick Man, one of North America's oldest and most complete skeletons. It is the next step in what is likely to be a lengthy study of the bones, found in 1996 along the Columbia River in Kennewick, Wash.

Results from the first phase of study, announced last week, indicated Kennewick Man was not a flood victim but had been formally buried. He was carefully laid out parallel to the river, with arms at his side and palms down. Scientists said that high water on June 10, 1996, eroded the skeleton from the bank about seven weeks before its discovery.

Douglas Owsley, an anthropologist with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, said those results will be added to in the coming months.

"We want to move to the next level of looking at Kennewick Man's health, his activities and how he lived," Owsley said. A detailed study also is being made of the 21/2-inch spear or dart point embedded in the skeleton's pelvis.

Eventually, Owsley says, he hopes a more accurate detailed facial reconstruction will be done to give people a look at what the 35- to 45-year-old man looked like when he hunted in the Columbia Basin about 450 generations ago.

Jim Chatters, a forensic anthropologist who collected and examined the bones in 1996, said he is looking at the bones to determine muscle development and signs of injuries.

"It was exciting to determine that he had been buried, with his bones extended," Chatters said. "He wasn't killed by a bear or a landslide, and he wasn't a flood victim. We still don't know what he died from, but we're finding out more about him with each step."

http://www.oregonlive.com/science/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/science/1141178131297900.xml&coll=7
 
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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

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From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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