1. Kennewick man
NAGPRA applies when human remains and funerary objects are recovered from federal or Indian land. ... In keeping with the "theory of the Bering Straits crossing" of Native American peopling in this Hemisphere, the findings of ancient remains in Washington State should be of no surprise, this would have been the path the Native Americans used when crossing the land bridge. ... The features of Kennewick Man are described as different from those of a "typical" Native American's facial structure. This in fact is in it's self-untrue; archaeologists have identified four distinct groups of ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate