Anna King

Anna King calls Richland, Washington home and loves unearthing great stories about people in the Northwest. She reports for the Northwest News Network from a studio at Washington State University, Triââ

Science
12:44 pm
Fri October 12, 2012

Prehistoric 'Kennewick Man' Was All Beefcake

Credit Brittney Tatchell / Courtesy of Doug Owsley
Forensic artists think this is what Kennewick Man looked like.

Originally published on Fri October 12, 2012 6:41 pm

For nearly a decade, scientists and Northwest tribes in Washington state fought bitterly over whether to bury or study the 9,500-year-old bones known as Kennewick Man. Scientists won the battle, and now, after years of careful examination, they're releasing some of their findings.

For starters, Kennewick Man was buff. I mean, really beefcake. So says Doug Owsley, head of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the man who led the study of the ancient remains.

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