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Science 10 April 1998:
Vol. 280. no. 5361, p. 191
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5361.191
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Kennewick Man's Contemporaries

Virginia Morell

What few ancient American skeletons physical anthropologists have been able to study despite obstacles posed by state and federal laws have revealed a surprising degree of diversity, with some resembling modern Indians and others seeming more like the Ainu of Japan, the first group to colonize the archipelago. In addition, signs of violence seen in the bones would seem to indicate the presence of different and competing peoples. But not all scientists see differences among the skeletons.

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