Smithsonian’s Douglas Owsley To Discuss Secrets Of Kennewick Man At Annual Archaeology Series in Farmington. On Saturday, January 24 at 2 pm, the public is invited to attend Secrets of Kennewick Man, a presentation by Dr. Douglas Owsley from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The Friends of the Office of State Archaeology (FOSA), the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History and Connecticut Archaeology Center at UConn, and Archaeology Society of Connecticut (ASC) sponsor the presentation. The talk will take place at Farmington High School, 10 Monteith Drive, Farmington, CT. Admission is $10 for the general public and $5 for students with ID. The annual meeting of the Friends of the Office of State Archaeology (FOSA) begins at 1 pm and is open to the public. In case of inclement weather, the snow date will be Sunday, January 25, 2014, 2 pm. The skeleton of Kennewick Man is nearly 9,000 years old, but it’s the last 18 years that have really been eventful. The skeleton was accidentally found in 1996 on the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Local investigators first thought the skeleton was that of a possible crime victim, and later proposed the bones might date to the 19th century. When they were determined to be thousands of years older (and included a stone spear point embedded in the pelvis), scientists worldwide became interested. Scientist Douglas Owsley and a team of specialists were allowed to conduct a 16-day study of the skeleton in 2005. The findings of the research are revisited in a new book Dr. Owsley co-edited, Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. In this special lecture he will share his findings along with those of other physical and forensic anthropologists, archaeologists, geologists, and geochemists.
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