Kennewick Man Controversy Summary

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Summarize the key players in the Kennewick Man Controversy
The key players in the Kennewick Man Controversy were James Chatters a person who runs an archaeological firm and consults with local corners. In the late part of July 1996 James Chatters would be contacted by the Benton County Coroner. Some teenagers had found some skeletal remains which had washed up on Colombia River bank. There would be more bones found in the same location later on and Chatter would begin to reconstruct those remains and take the necessary measurements. The results of the Forensic findings had labeled the remains as being “male, Caucasoid, fourty to fifty five years of age at the time of death, The height of the individual would be around five foot nine inches”.

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