Kennewick Man: the scientific investigation of an ancient American skeleton

Introduction: the scientific investigation of Kennewick Man / Douglas W. Owsley

The people who peopled America / Brad Lepper

Geography, paleoecology, and archaeology / James C. Chatters

Chronology of the Kennewick Man skeleton / Thomas Wier Stafford, Jr.

The precedent-setting case of Kennewick Man / Alan L. Schneider and Paula A. Barran

Reflections of a former Army Corps of Engineers archaeologist / Larry D. Banks

Curation history and overview of the plaintiffs' studies / Cleone H. Hawkinson

Skeletal inventory, morphology, and pathology / Douglas W. Owsley, Aleithea A. Williams, and Karin S. Bruwelheide

Dentition / Christy G. Turner, II

Dental microwear / Mark F. Teaford and Sireen El-Zaatari

Orthodontics / John L. Hayes

Body mass, stature, and proportions of the skeleton / Benjamin M. Auerbach

Reconstructing habitual activities by biomechanical analysis of long bones / Daniel Wescott

Bones of the hands and feet / D. Troy Case

The natural shocks that flesh is heir to / Della Collins Cook

Occupational stress markings and patterns of injury / James C. Chatters

Stable isotopic evidence for diet and origin / Henry P. Schwarcz, Thomas Wier Stafford, Jr., Martin Knyf, Brian Chisholm, Fred J. Longstaffe, James C. Chatters, and Douglas W. Owsley

Taphonomic indicators of burial context / Douglas W. Owsley, Aleithea A. Williams, Thomas Wier Stafford, Jr.

Benthic aquatic algae: indicators of recent taphonomic history / James L. Norris and Douglas W. Owsley

Postmortem breakage as a taphonomic tool for determining burial position / Hugh Berryman

Computed tomography, visualization, and 3D modeling / Rebecca Snyder

Prototype accuracy and reassembly / David R. Hunt

Molding and casting methods / Steve J. Jabo

The point of the story / Dennis J. Stanford

The Ainu and Jōmon connection / C. Loring Brace, Noriko Seguchi, A. Russell Nelson, Pan Qifeng, Hideyuki Umeda, Margaret Wilson, and Mary L. Brace

Cranial morphometric evidence for early Holocene relationships and population structure / Richard L. Jantz and M. Katherine Spradley

Two-dimensional geometric morphometrics / M. Katherine Spradley, Katherine E. Weisensee, and Richard L. Jantz

Morphological features that reflect population affinities / George Gill

Identity through science and art / Karin S. Bruwelheide and Douglas W. Owsley

Evidence of maritime adaptation and coastal migration from southeast Alaska / E. James Dixon, Timothy H. Heaton, Craig M. Lee, Terence E. Fifield, Joan Brenner Coltrain, Brian M. Kemp, Douglas W. Owsley, Eric Parrish, Christy G.Turner II, Heather J.H. Edgar, Rosita Kaaháni Worl, David Glenn Smith, and G. Lang Farmer

A new look at the double burial from Horn Shelter no. 2 / Margaret A. Jodry and Douglas W. Owsley

Storage and Care at the Burke Museum / Cleone H. Hawkinson

Who was Kennewick Man? / Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz

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