Subject: Re: original Americans - off topic
Date: Dec 14 00:44:44 1998
From: Dennis K Rockwell - denniskrockwell at juno.com


"Kennewick Man" was found by a young man wading in the water of the
Columbia River, or more accurately Lake Wallula created by McNary Dam,
while watching the annual Water Follies hydroplane races from Kennewick's
Columbia Park.
Columbia Park is Corps of Engineers land (flood plain), but it soon
is to be transferred to the City of Kennewick. The site where this
nearly complete skeleton was found would have been above the river's
normal, recent (non flood) high water line prior to the construction of
McNary Dam. Where the high water line was 9,200 years, however, I
haven't got a clue.
Early local newspaper reports indicated that there was the tip of a
stone (arrowhead or spear?) point broken off in a hip bone. In another
early local newspaper article someone, I don't remember who now,
suggested that "Kennewick Man" had survived this injury - that this
person saw evidence of healing of the injury.
This business of the missing bone pieces, which you've indicated
could be crucial to determining the skeleton's origins, is very
disturbing. It starts to sound as though someone who knew what they were
doing has deliberately attempted to prevent the skeleton's origins from
being discovered.

Dennis K Rockwell
Kennewick, WA
denniskrockwell at juno.com

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths." Nietzche

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