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AN UPDATED SUMMARY STATEMENT of the ARCHEOLOGY of the NORTH CASCADES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE COMPLEX Principle Investigator Robert R. Mierendorf, North Cascades National Park May 1998 North Cascades National Park Service Complex 2105 Highway 20 Sedro Woolley, WA 98284 INTRODUCTION In the early 1980s, the National Park Service (NPS) initiated more systematic and thorough archeological studies than ever before, of its park units in the Pacific Northwest. The main purposes ...

Bones of Contention A federal law stands between scientists and America's prehistoric past. By John J. Miller When Dave Deacy and Will Thomas found a human skull in the shallows of the Columbia River in July 1996, they thought they had stumbled across the remains of a murder victim. So they hid the skull in some bushes and notified the police in Kennewick, Washington. That evening, Benton County Coroner Floyd Johnson called James Chatters, a local forensics specialist and the ...

The story Herald/Bob Brawdy. An aerial view shows the area of Columbia Park where Kennewick Man was found in July 1996. It started in July 1996 when two young boat-racing enthusiasts stumbled across a skull alongside the Columbia River in Kennewick, Wash. It has evolved into a skirmish between American Indians who believe nature should be left to take its course with the remains and scientists who want to study them. In the middle are the bones of a man believed ...