Kennewick Man: the scientific investigation of an ancient American skeleton

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

Establishing context. The people who peopled America / Bradley T. Lepper ; Geography, paleoecology, and archaeology / James C. Chatters ; Chronology of the Kennewick Man skeleton / Thomas W. 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

Studying skeletal evidence. 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 J. 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 W. 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 W. 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

Applying technology to interpretation. 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

Incorporating population data. 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 W. Gill ; Identity through science and art / Karin S. Bruwelheide and Douglas W. Owsley

Learning from early Holocene contemporaries. 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

Anticipating Kennewick Man's future. 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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