For the TEACHER
1.
Forensic scientists (anthropologists), archeologist, but also specialists in
medicine, dentistry, and genetics.
2.
In the case of Kennewick Man, evidence for severe injuries suggested that the
man lived many of his 40-plus years in frequent if not chronic pain.
3.
40 years old (middle aged)
4. The Corps has kept Kennewick Man locked up under
tight security in a museum at the University of Washington, pending the outcome
of court battles over what should be done with the bones.
5. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
6. Several Indian tribes on the Columbia Plateau,
led by the Umatilla, hope to win the right to rebury the skeleton, which they
consider an ancestor.
7. When it seemed likely that the Indians would
achieve their goal under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation
Act -- a law that enables tribes to file claims to remains to which they can
demonstrate a cultural affiliation
8. A group of eight leading American
anthropologists, fearful that invaluable information on the first peopling of
the Americas could potentially be lost, sued the federal government for the
right to study the remains.
9.
ANSWERS WILL VARY
10.
It's a way to determine the age of organic remains such as bone, teeth, and
seeds by finding out how much carbon-14 is left in the remains.
11.
9,000-year-old
12.
So every plant contains a certain percentage of carbon-14. And so do those
things that eat plants. And so do those things that eat the things that eat
plants.
13.
The carbon-14 within every once-living thing will someday turn back into
nitrogen-If we knew the amount of carbon-14 a once-living thing had while it
was alive and the rate at which it changed (i.e., how fast it changed) back
into nitrogen, then we could figure out how long ago it lived.
14.
Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5,730 years.
15.
5,730 years ago.
16.
many meats: elk, bison, antelope, birds, mussels, fish (peamouth, minnows,
salmon, steelhead, squawfish and suckers) plants: huckleberries, seeds,
tubers (camas, bitterroot and kouse)
17.
during grand-parent’s time the ice age or glaciers and colder climate was beginning
to end, but summers winters were colder than now and colder than Kennewick
Man’s climate. The ice age was just
beginning to end. Kennewick Man lived
in a dryer, warmer climate than his grandparents and ours. What once had been lakes were now dried
up. His winters would have been warmer
than now.
18.
25-30 people which included children
19.
far north as Spokane, east and west to the Cascades and Blue mountains and
south to the Hermiston area
20.
475 to 500
21.
With few people roaming the area, the possibility of bones and a full skeleton
is rare.
22.
spear with a pointed stone tip, sandals made of sagebrush bark
23. A stone-tipped spear pierced his hip and the
wound became infected, killing him.