“She’d lost 20, and several others had decayed down to the root stubs,” says Douglas Owsley, the head of physical anthropology at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, whose ...

Chip Clark / NMNH, SI Smithsonian Institution forensic anthropologist and “Written in Bone” co-curator Karin Bruwelheide measuring a skull. Bruwelheide and Douglas Owsley have worked together ...

Nothing in the NAGPRA regulations, Owsley says, prevents scientific study of early Americans such as Kennewick Man. What do we hope to learn from Kennewick Man? That's not easy to answer until ...