Kennewick Man may have been dead for about 9,000 years, but he still has to suffer through regular checkups with the doc like the rest of us.

Kennewick Man's decade-old legal problems have been well documented since his 9,300-year-old skeleton was discovered.

The leader of a group that claimed Kennewick Man as an ancient European ancestor returned to Kennewick on Thursday for the first time since performing rituals over the skeleton nine years ago.

Will Thomas was standing in knee-deep water trying to finish off a couple cans of Busch Light.

In the 10 years since Kennewick Man was first discovered along the Columbia River shoreline, he has been rediscovered thousands of times over and over again all across the globe.

Ten years isn't long. Not in a history that began 9,000 years ago.

Mid-Columbia tribal leaders prayed Wednesday morning over Kennewick Man's bones at the University of Washington's Burke Museum in Seattle.

ELLENSBURG, Wash. - Behind two locked doors at Central Washington University, what might be called Son of Kennewick Man sits inside a cardboard box.

Framed by Time magazine's iconic red border, Kennewick Man sports dark-hair, a deep tan and an intense-looking gaze.

SEATTLE -- Glen Howard Pinkham lingered in the hallway, hoping to declare peace with a handshake.

SEATTLE -- Kennewick Man was a beefy guy.

SEATTLE -- Kennewick Man was buried by other humans.

SEATTLE -- The scientists studying Kennewick Man appeared slightly dazed as they emerged one by one Wednesday out of the University of Washington's Burke Museum into the drizzle.

Scientists plan to disclose their findings about Kennewick Man on Thursday in Seattle, nearly a decade after the discovery of the 9,000-year-old skeleton that attracted worldwide interest and sparked a lengthy legal fight.

James Chatters, the paleoscientist who performed the first studies on Kennewick Man after students found the bones in 1996 on the Columbia River bank, has joined international engineering company AMEC in Seattle.

The scientists who fought to study Kennewick Man's bones have turned their attention to another ancient skeleton that Native Americans claim as an ancestor.

Kennewick Man is again resting along the Columbia River shore.

WASHINGTON -- Doug Owsley lives to provide answers for his untroubled clientele -- the dead.

WASHINGTON -- Though his 9,300-year-old remains rest in a Seattle museum, Kennewick Man is at the center of a debate 3,000 miles away over a two-word amendment to a Senate bill that has sparked sharp controversy between the nation's Indian tribes and parts of the scientific community.

SEATTLE -- Doug Owsley ran his hand along the plastic model skull of Kennewick Man looking for an old injury. His fingers paused at a tiny indentation near the top of the skull.

SEATTLE (AP) - Cloistered around padded tables in an undisclosed museum room, scientists from around the country have been peering through microscopes and measuring bone fragments trying to unearth the history of an ancient skeleton found along the Columbia River.

SEATTLE -- The scientists looked slightly tired Wednesday evening when they emerged as a group from the Burke Museum after their first day of study on Kennewick Man.

SEATTLE - The front steps of the Burke Museum were quiet Tuesday morning save for a few hurried University of Washington students on their way to class.

Scientists say they are wrapping up final arrangements to study Kennewick Man's remains in early July at University of Washington's Burke Museum in Seattle.

It's been more than seven years since West Richland sculptor Tom McClelland first used science and educated guesswork to put a face on Kennewick Man.

Jon Turk took to the seas to prove his theory of where the ancestors of Kennewick Man came from.

WASHINGTON - Scientists hoping to study the ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man are protesting a bill they say could block their efforts.

After a bitter nine-year court battle, scientists may have their first chance to study Kennewick Man this summer.

Northwest tribes have filed an appeal in the Kennewick Man case in hopes of being involved in a planned study of the 9,400-year-old bones.

WASHINGTON - Scientists hoping to study the ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man are protesting a bill by Colorado Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell which they say could block their efforts.

Native American tribes that sought control of the ancient Kennewick Man remains are asking a federal court to grant them full party status with the government and scientists negotiating a plan to study the bones.

PORTLAND - A federal judge has barred Northwest Indian tribes from further participation in the Kennewick Man lawsuit by ordering the case limited to government defendants and the scientists who want to study the ancient skeleton, attorneys said Wednesday.

The eight-year clash over Kennewick Man's remains was settled in July, but how to study the 9,300-year-old bones and where they should go now continues to stir controversy.

PORTLAND - The U.S. Justice Department has joined Northwest tribes in clearing the way for scientists to study the Kennewick Man remains.

An almost eight-year battle over the remains of Kennewick Man that pitted Mid-Columbia tribes against those interested in studying the bones appears to be over.

A federal appeals court has rejected a request by four Northwest Native American tribes that it rehear a case involving the fate of the 9,300-year-old Kennewick Man remains.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Anthropologists seeking to study the ancient Kennewick Man skeleton scored another victory when the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request by four Northwest tribes for a rehearing in the lengthy dispute.

Efforts by scientists to study the 9,300-year-old bones of Kennewick Man face further delay because four Northwest tribes have filed a new court action.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld an earlier ruling allowing scientists to study the 9,300-year-old Kennewick Man skeleton that was discovered in 1996 along the shores of Columbia Park.

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It’s not People but Kennewick Man has made the cover of a German magazine.

PROSSER, Wash. -- Will Tran thinks Kennewick Man's remains should be returned to the American Indians.

SEATTLE -- Kennewick Man, the ancient skeleton found in the Columbia River with a spear point in his hip, undoubtedly had an adventuresome life more than 9,000 years ago.

PORTLAND -- Seven years after the skeleton of Kennewick Man was fished from the shallows of the Columbia River, another court took up the task Wednesday of deciding its future.

PORTLAND - Eight anthropologists who want to study an ancient skeleton must wait until a federal court has heard an appeal of the case by four Northwest tribes that consider the bones sacred.

American Indians, police and the Army Corps of Engineers are investigating the discovery of "apparently human remains" near McNary Dam on the Oregon side of the Columbia River.

Scientists who want to study Kennewick Man took another big step toward their goal Wednesday when a federal judge denied a motion to put their investigations on hold.

The federal government has appealed the Kennewick Man ruling that allows more study of the ancient bones.

Four Northwest tribes have appealed a federal District Court ruling in the Kennewick Man case, making good on promises to challenge an opinion that allows continued study of the 9,000-year-old remains.

Northwest American Indians will appeal a federal district court ruling that allowed for private study of ancient bones known as Kennewick Man, hoping to defend Indian remains across the nation.

With less than two weeks before the appeal period ends, the federal government has yet to announce if it will challenge a ruling allowing Kennewick Man to be studied by independent scientists.

Four Northwest tribes are attempting to appeal a federal court ruling that allows study of Kennewick Man's 9,000-year-old remains.

The CBS television show 60 Minutes plans to rerun its 1998 Kennewick Man segment at 7 p.m Sunday.

A group of eight eminent scientists and their colleagues is starting to prepare a plan to study Kennewick Man following a judge's ruling that overturned a federal agency decision to block independent study of the ancient skeleton.

DALLAS - A teen-age girl from Brazoria County could be the oldest person ever found in Texas.

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In what may be the most startling fossil find in decades, scientists in central Africa say they have unearthed the oldest trace of a prehuman ancestor - a remarkably intact skull of an apelike species that walked upright as far back as 7 million years ago.

Caitlin Feeney remembers seeing helicopters swirling for days over the site where two young men unearthed the skull of a 9,000-year-old man six years ago.

U.S. Magistrate Judge John Jelderks expects to issue a decision on the Kennewick Man case by Labor Day, he said in a short letter to lawyers made public Wednesday.

With the fate of the ancient bones found in Kennewick six years ago remaining in legal limbo, Peter Lampson has decided to take action.

The old bones are back, this time in film.

If you're wondering how much water is stored in Yakima Basin reservoirs, don't bother checking the Internet site of the federal agency that monitors them.

U.S. Magistrate Judge John Jelderks this week denied a request by a Samoan chieftain to become an official party in the Kennewick Man case.

Just when the 5-year-old Kennewick Man lawsuit seemed in danger of coming to a close, along comes Paramount Chieftain Faumuina, a k a Joseph Siofele.

The FBI has dropped its criminal investigation in the case of the rediscovered Kennewick Man bones and plans to turn over the ancient remains to the Army Corps of Engineers.

An expert from the Army Corps of Engineers is trying to make sure bones found in Kennewick last week belong to the 9,000-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man.

Federal anthropologists are scheduled to collect today what are believed to be parts of Kennewick Man's femur bones, found Thursday at the Benton County Sheriff's Office.

Bones reported missing from the Kennewick Man skeleton three years ago appear to have turned up at the Benton County Sheriff's Office.

PORTLAND - Consider the "totality of the circumstances" rather than looking for indisputable proof Kennewick Man is linked to modern tribes, attorneys for the federal government and Native Americans urged a federal judge Wednesday.

PORTLAND - A decision in the Kennewick Man case still is at least several weeks away.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- After an exhausting day of testimony to a packed courtroom, Magistrate John Jelderks recessed his hearing into the fate of the 9,200-year-old Kennewick Man bones until Wednesday.

Today could be a turning point in the tempestuous battle for Kennewick Man.

Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans, by James C. Chatters, Simon & Schuster, 2001, 303 pages, $26.

MOXEE - A cataclysmic flood that broke through an ice dam in western Montana 12,000 years ago to carve out the Columbia Plateau may have deposited a mammoth relic in Moxee.

"What is your story, old man?" With those words ringing in his head, archaeologist James Chatters said goodnight to Kennewick Man on July 28, 1996.

Final written arguments by federal lawyers show the Bush administration has maintained a strong defense of the government's decision to give Kennewick Man to Northwest tribes for reburial.

Scientists are relying on constitutional protections to win their case for studying Kennewick Man, according to court documents released Tuesday.

Scientists have discovered a 3.5 million-year-old skull in Kenya that may force them to rethink the central place of the fossil nicknamed "Lucy" in the human evolutionary tree.

When Kennewick Man was buried 9,000 years ago in present-day Columbia Park, it was the end of a long journey.

The federal government must produce raw computer data of CT scans done on Kennewick Man by next week after a ruling in federal District Court in Portland.

The federal government has destroyed evidence in the legal battle for the ancient bones of Kennewick Man, scientists charged Tuesday.

Kennewick Man, the 9,000-year-old skeleton found in Kennewick's Columbia Park in 1996, is featured in the December 2000 issue of National Geographic magazine.

VANLUE, Ohio - The discovery of prehistoric tools from an Ohio cave is one of several finds that has scientists questioning the identity of settlers thought to have moved in 11,000 years ago.

PORTLAND - Who is a Native American?

PORTLAND, Ore. - After being on hold for four years, a federal judge has reactivated a lawsuit over a 9,300-year-old skeleton and questioned a Justice Department argument that any ancient skeleton by definition is that of a "Native American."

When U.S. Magistrate Judge John Jelderks opens court in Portland on Wednesday, the world will be watching.

Robert Tomanawash struggled to keep his emotions in check. His lips curled in an expression of inner turmoil as he gripped the lectern at the edge of the Columbia River.

Kennewick Man belongs to American Indians and they can block any future scientific tests on the ancient bones, the Department of the Interior declared Monday.

PORTLAND - The U.S. Interior Department has decided that "Kennewick Man," one of the oldest skeletons ever found in North America, should be given to five American Indian tribes who have claimed him as an ancestor.

A federal judge has ruled the Yakama Nation waited too long to try to enter the legal fight over custody of the 9,000-year-old bones of Kennewick Man.

None of the laboratories testing Kennewick Man's DNA has reported success with the intricate procedure, according to a federal court document filed this week as the deadline for the government's work approaches.

The government's DNA tests of Kennewick Man are going off without major setbacks and should produce results by early August, federal attorneys said in court documents filed Monday in Portland.

The Yakama Nation has thrust itself into the center of the fray over Kennewick Man by staking a new legal claim to the ancient bones and asking the court to allow it to assert its interests in the long-running legal battle.

QUINCY - A ground sloth whose bones were uncovered near this Central Washington town apparently roamed the now-arid region at the time it resembled arctic tundra.

The Tri-City Herald's newspaper and Web site coverage of Kennewick Man received a statewide award Tuesday for outstanding achievement in portraying historic preservation.

Kennewick Man is coming home - at least in spirit.

SEATTLE - It's a safe bet Kennewick Man never envisioned his remains would someday be the subject of so much scrutiny when he roamed the Mid-Columbia 9,200 years ago.

It's fairly common to turn up marbles, hula hoops, beer bottles or other testimony of bygone days in the back yard with a spade or shovel.

A team of experts will begin efforts in two weeks to determine if Kennewick Man was intentionally buried and what part of his ancient bones or teeth may yield enough protein for DNA tests.

Answer the questions.

The first book on Kennewick Man hit the bookstores last month and a second one isn't far behind.

Scientists and tribes reviewed their legal options Thursday after a federal court decision that opens the way for DNA testing of Kennewick Man.

Take six months. And do it right.

Decrying a "dangerous new precedent," the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation opposed Friday's final decision by the Interior Department to go ahead with DNA testing on Kennewick Man.

Despite objections from all sides, the Interior Department plans to go ahead with DNA tests on Kennewick Man if the court gives it more time.

Umatilla tribal leaders blasted the federal government on Tuesday for its plans to test the DNA of Kennewick Man and said they now fear this case will be used to breach tribal rights across the country.

Kennewick Man likely soon will undergo DNA testing to determine his affiliation with modern peoples, the Department of the Interior announced Monday.

SEATTLE - Mike Squeochs knows he can't win. At least not anytime soon.

The Asatru Folk Assembly publicly folded its cards this week, saying it no longer would fight in court for independent study of Kennewick Man.

Kennewick Man is really old.

Scientists are asking U.S. District Court in Portland to order the federal government to turn over computer data that generated CT scan images of the Kennewick Man skeleton.

The Department of the Interior has retained four Northwest experts on ancient peoples to search for a link between modern cultures and Kennewick Man, the agency announced Monday in court documents filed in Portland.

Problems radiocarbon dating Kennewick Man have forced the government to delay revealing how old the bones are and may foreshadow a fuzzy picture about the ancient remains when the dates are revealed.

Like almost everyone who closely follows Kennewick Man, Stephen McNallen spent Friday morning at his computer downloading a long-awaited federal report about the ancient bones.

Kennewick Man isn't much like modern Indians.

DNA testing on Kennewick Man "probably will be required" to validate the government's attempt to link him to modern people, said U.S. Magistrate John Jelderks in a written order released late Tuesday.

PORTLAND - Amid charges of more federal bumbling with Kennewick Man's bones, U.S. Magistrate John Jelderks said Tuesday that the government must soon answer key questions about the ancient remains.

Offering what it called an "elegant solution" to the protracted debate over Kennewick Man, the long-quiet Asatru Folk Assembly marched back into the legal battle of the bones Tuesday with a demand to examine the DNA of the ancient remains.

The Burke Museum in Seattle is preparing a lecture series and traveling exhibit on Kennewick Man, even as the federal government again moved back the date when it plans to release more information about the ancient remains.

Hoping to end a two-year wait for detailed scientific reports about Kennewick Man, lawyers made an all-out plea Tuesday, again asking a federal court judge in Portland to let them study the ancient bones.

What started as an art project on Victor Moore's dinner plate has become a memento of the prehistoric Mid-Columbia with the printing this week of 200 T-shirts recognizing the most famous Tri-Citian - Kennewick Man.

Despite continued objections from American Indian tribes, the U.S. Interior Department plans to move ahead with radiocarbon dating of the remains of Kennewick Man in the next six weeks, a top agency official announced Wednesday.

A night shift three years ago at Kennewick General Hospital is about to give former X-ray tech Jon Umbright at least a few seconds of his allotted 15 minutes of fame.

The federal government hasn't figured out how old Kennewick Man is and probably will resort to radiocarbon dating to find the answer.

The U.S. Department of the Interior will not release studies about Kennewick Man until at least July, the agency said Thursday.

Kennewick Man is going to college.

Kennewick Man's ancient bones will get at least a month older before the Department of the Interior says if they are American Indian.

SEATTLE - Kennewick Man's spot in history will remain a mystery for at least another two months, but pieces of his past fell into place Saturday.

Karl Hutterer didn't know if he wanted Kennewick Man's star-crossed bones at his time-honored Seattle museum.

Kennewick Man's fate is in the hands of five veteran archaeologists and anthropologists who were named Wednesday by the Department of the Interior.

Two and a half years after Kennewick Man emerged from the muddy banks of the Columbia River, federally appointed scientists have pinpointed dates for studying the ancient bones.

Bits of Kennewick Man's skeleton will be reunited with the rest of his body next week when federal agents retrieve long separated pieces from California.

Scientists hoping to study Kennewick Man say they could be skeletons themselves before they get a chance to look at the controversial bones.

American Indian tribes will press the federal government to find missing pieces of Kennewick Man's legs, saying the skeleton snatchers should be brought to justice.

Last December's geologic study of the Kennewick Man site confirms the age of the ancient skeleton found there, but more work should be done to obtain a more thorough understanding, according to a report this week from the Army Corps of Engineers.

The more than 300 pieces of Kennewick Man's skeleton locked up at a Seattle museum are all part of the same person and in decent shape given their 9,200 years.

SANTA FE, N.M. - Indian tribes must join forces to protect their ancestors' remains from scientific testing, said a Washington state tribe that claims the 9,200-year-old bones known as Kennewick Man.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Scientists announced the discovery of the oldest complete hominid skeleton today, and said they hoped the fossil would shed light on whether early human ancestors lived in trees while also walking upright.

Harrison Ford he ain't.

Kennewick Man probably won't get a bake sale.

In the pallid light of Thursday dawn, Northwest American Indians lifted their voices in ancient song as a federal van holding Kennewick Man's 9,200-year-old bones idled nearby.

With 30,000 looted artifacts back in their possession, Mid-Columbia tribes are fanning out across the region to survey other damage done to archaeological sites.

Scientists got a much anticipated look at the 9,200-year-old Kennewick Man bones during a marathon of tedious work Wednesday at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Kennewick Man continued to ruffle feathers and intrigue viewers during his Sunday night stint on 60 Minutes.

Kennewick Man's troubled existence in Richland is due to end Thursday when a federal convoy escorts the ancient bones to Seattle.

When Will Thomas came across a skull two years ago during the hydroplane races at Columbia Park, he was intrigued. But it never occurred to the 23-year-old that his discovery would be so significant to make prime time national news.

Kennewick Man hits prime time Sunday on 60 Minutes.

Followers of an ancient European religion will erect a memorial stone to Kennewick Man, possibly in late March, their lawyer said Wednesday.

Jim Chatters was thrust back to the center of the Kennewick Man controversy this week when pro-study scientists asked a federal judge to let the Richland anthropologist inspect the ancient bones.

Kennewick Man's watery grave has made enough waves among archaeology buffs that the East Benton County Historical Society is preparing to mark the spot with a memorial.

The anthropologists who protested moving Kennewick Man to a Seattle museum no longer have qualms about storing the 9,200-year-old skeleton there.

Kennewick Man is headed to Seattle.

The government's time line for studying Kennewick Man could be in jeopardy unless the federal judge quickly gives the OK to move the bones out of Richland.

So much for government security and federal court orders.

Even the most serious Kennewick Man watchers can't help but chuckle at how quickly the old guy gets around - and he's usually up to no good.

In the two years since Kennewick Man was discovered along the muddy banks of the Columbia River, more than one person has suggested he came "to tell us something."

If a decision isn't made soon about where to study Kennewick Man's ancient bones, questions about his lineage won't be answered this year.

Rep. Doc Hastings wants answers about how the Army Corps of Engineers handled the Kennewick Man skeleton found almost two years ago in Columbia Park. And he wants to know if the federal government is keeping its own laws for handling ancient remains.

Unless Kennewick Man stumps the experts, his cultural identity should be known by July 1999.

Scientists say the federal government has cared poorly for Kennewick Man, allowing his bones to crack, flake and mold, with some fragments stored in a brown paper lunch bag.

The federal government's plan for studying Kennewick Man is "vague and incomplete," will take too long and won't answer burning questions about the high-profile skeleton, say scientists who want to study the ancient remains.

PORTLAND - Attorneys for scientists, American Indian tribes and the federal government entered their third day of mediation Friday aimed at resolving the 20-month dispute over Kennewick Man.

WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration on Wednesday joined American Indian groups in opposing a bill that would allow the study of 9,200-year-old Kennewick Man.

Kennewick Man's bones are deemed in generally safe condition at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories operated by Battelle in north Richland.

WASHINGTON - For months, the debate about one of the oldest skeletons in North America has involved scientists, tribal leaders, lawyers and history buffs.

Just a few boats on the Columbia River - that's all RDF television of London wants.

On 10 acres of sagebrush and sand, Jeff Van Pelt stepped carefully past a piece of obsidian and a few flakes of gray rock.

The federal law that attempts to balance religious rights of American Indians with the desire to explore the past goes before a congressional committee Wednesday.

PORTLAND - A small group of American Indians protested outside the federal courthouse Friday, saying their culture is being ignored in the case of the Kennewick Man.

In an attempt to publicize the American Indian perspective about Kennewick Man, some tribal members reportedly are planning a demonstration Friday at the federal district courthouse in Portland.

PORTLAND - Kennewick Man is getting a new home. Then he gets a physical.

Legislation that would allow study of Kennewick Man's remains will get a U.S. House committee hearing June 10, seven months after the bill was introduced.

A federal judge, concerned by reports that Kennewick Man's skeleton has been mishandled, has set a hearing for later this month to review storage of the ancient bones.

A least one bone fragment found at the Kennewick Man site was improperly reburied by American Indians in late April, prompting a review of how the ancient remains are being stored.

Fragments of Kennewick Man being stored at the University of California at Davis will stay indefinitely at the school, the U.S Department of the Interior announced Thursday.

An ancient pact between American Indians and the land is why tribes insist the 9,200-year-old bones found in Kennewick should be reburied, a tribal leader told a crowd Thursday night at Washington State University at Tri-Cities.

The University of California at Davis wants to finish DNA studies of Kennewick Man bone fragments it has kept for 19 months. But the U.S. Department of Justice is demanding the ancient remains be given to the federal government.

A Umatilla tribal leader will explain American Indian views about Kennewick Man at a public presentation Thursday at Washington State University at Tri-Cities.

The Department of Interior is trying to unearth the truth about the coveted Kennewick Man remains as it takes control of the nation's most controversial ancient bones.

The booming percussion of helicopter blades threatened to drown out the sound of Alan Cliff's drum, but he didn't care.

The U.S. Department of the Interior was asked Friday to block the burial of the Kennewick Man site.

PORTLAND - The Army Corps of Engineers has handed Kennewick Man's controversial bones to the Department of the Interior, which will determine who gets the ancient remains.

Bowing to continued pressure from Congress, the Army Corps of Engineers suspended further work Tuesday on the site where Kennewick Man was found.

Legislation that would block the Army Corps of Engineers from burying the Kennewick Man site without court approval passed the U.S. Senate on Thursday.

Whatever kind of burial Kennewick Man got when he died, it can't match what the Army Corps of Engineers has in mind for any ancient remains left at the Columbia Park site where his bones were found.

A national advisory board gave unequivocal support Thursday to an Army Corps of Engineers plan to bury the site where Kennewick Man was found under rocks and dirt.

The U.S. Senate is trying to protect Kennewick Man's watery grave from the Army Corps of Engineers.

No rocks will be dumped along the Columbia River where Kennewick Man was found until a national archaeological advisory board says so.

While the hunt for Kennewick Man's missing leg bones continues, the Army Corps of Engineers says it's nearly ready to bury the Columbia Park site where the bones were found in July 1996.

Someone pulled Kennewick Man's legs - and put them somewhere else.

Just call Kennewick Man the Tri-Cities' biggest tourist attraction.

Kennewick Man finally has some meat on his ancient bones.

PORTLAND - A plan to halt erosion along the Columbia River shoreline where Kennewick Man was found would not preclude further scientific study of the site, an Army Corps of Engineers officer has said.

Two Washington politicians are pressuring the Army Corps of Engineers not to bury the site where the ancient Kennewick Man skeleton was found, calling the plans "extreme and expensive."

KENNEWICK - The Army Corps on Engineers and the city of Kennewick have not given permission to members of a pagan church to erect a monument to Kennewick Man, the groups say.

PORTLAND - A top government archaeologist has told the Army Corps of Engineers that scientific study of Kennewick Man is permissible to determine if the skeleton is an American Indian.

Kennewick Man probably was not buried by his clan at the site where his bones were found in present-day Columbia Park, anthropologist Jim Chatters of Richland said Friday.

Plans to cover the Kennewick Man site with tons of rocks and dirt would "erect a virtually impenetrable barrier to future research," say scientists trying to learn more about the ancient remains.

For me, the most interesting scientific story of the year in the Columbia Basin is Kennewick Man.

Scientists investigating Columbia Park on Tuesday discovered a heap of shells tossed out by ancient river dwellers, and they confirmed the presence of a volcanic ash layer throughout the site.

Waves from last weekend's lighted boat parade unearthed what appears to be a bit of Kennewick Man's rib along the Columbia River bank.

Columbia Park in December is a long way from the sweltering summer Water Follies festival held there each July.

If there were a single major museum in the country you'd expect to describe how America became populated, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., probably would be it.

The Army Corps of Engineers is sending some of its top scientists to the Tri-Cities next week to study the Kennewick Man site.

A survey crew is mapping a short stretch of Columbia Park this week in preparation for studies of the site where ancient bones where found in July 1996.

Kennewick Man's last resting place will be probed for clues to the ancient past in mid-December, said Gary Huckleberry, anthropology professor at Washington State University.

Rep. Doc Hastings has drafted a bill that could allow scientists to study the ancient bones found in Kennewick in July 1996, citing a need to clarify American Indian graves protection law.

Scientists and American Indians will get to explore Columbia Park for clues about the mysterious and controversial human skeleton found there in July 1996.

Kennewick Man's living quarters are about to be remodeled to ensure the safety of his ancient bones.

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Tribe Indian Reservation don't like a proposal by a Washington State University anthropologist to dig up parts of Columbia Park where the Kennewick Man skeleton was found.

The Army Corps of Engineers says it has reopened its investigation about the 9,200-year-old bones found in Kennewick and is asking for help from other agencies and scientists to figure out what should be done with the remains.

Scientists who want to study 9,200-year-old bones found last year in Kennewick say the ancient remains aren't being stored properly and potential damage could undermine attempts to learn more from them.

While Kennewick Man lives the high life as a world-renowned, 9,200-year-old celebrity, archaeologists at Washington State University are doing the dirty work of a 1990 law passed to make sure American Indian bones are returned to tribes.

A window into the Mid-Columbia's ancient past will be built into Hanford's new hazardous materials emergency school.

Ancient bones found in Kennewick could be good for more than a peek into the past. They might give doctors help for the future.

Scientists can't get into Kennewick Man's Richland digs, but they want to excavate a bit of ground near his last resting place to find out more about his life and times.

SPOKANE - Questions are being raised about the Army Corps of Engineers' care of the 9,300-year-old bones of Kennewick Man.

In the quiet of Columbia Park, Steve McNallen's throaty voice carried over the river that once covered Kennewick Man in a watery grave.

The battle for Kennewick Man's bones shifts from the legal realm to the spirit world this week as a group of Viking pagans prepare to celebrate the ancient remains.

As Norse pagans prepare to celebrate the 9,200-year-old bones found last summer in Kennewick, they also are stepping up their legal fight.

Followers of an ancient pagan religion tied to the Norse god Thor are the latest to get access to the bones of Kennewick Man, a federal agency said Tuesday.

Concern about an alleged "inflammatory" letter from a staff member at the Burke Museum in Seattle could further complicate plans to move Kennewick Man out of Richland.

You've come a long way, guy.

Eight prominent scientists had to sue for access to ancient human remains found in Kennewick last summer. But American Indians just had to ask nicely to hold religious ceremonies with the cloistered bones.

Finders aren't always keepers.

Get out your birthday hats and party favors, Kennewick's oldest resident turns 9,201 today.

Scientists who want to study a 9,200-year-old human skeleton found in Kennewick last summer got a big boost Tuesday from the U.S. Senate, scientists' lawyers said.

Two Franklin County boys have discovered a partial skeleton of what could be a deer dating back 7 million years.

A federal judge slapped the Army Corps of Engineers on Friday, saying the agency may have made faulty assumptions concerning 9,200-year-old bones found last summer in Kennewick.

PORTLAND - Scientists won't get to study Kennewick Man any time soon, but federal Judge John Jelderks said Monday that he won't dismiss their request until he has more facts.

A ruling by a federal judge last week gives two American Indian tribes the right to speak in court about the so-called Kennewick Man.

Richland archaeologist James Chatters isn't sure if he's paranoid or if someone's out to get him.

PORTLAND - A U.S. magistrate ruled Wednesday that anthropologists can pursue a federal lawsuit to try to study the 9,200-year-old skeleton dubbed "Kennewick Man."

PORTLAND - A federal magistrate refused Monday to dismiss two lawsuits filed over the 9,000-year-old human bones found last year in Columbia Park in Kennewick.

Anthropologists hoping to study 9,000-year-old bones found in Kennewick, took the next step in what's shaping up to be a precedent-setting legal battle with the Army Corps of Engineers.

The Army Corps of Engineers doesn't think scientists can legally stop it from transferring an ancient skeleton to Indian tribes.

You can choose your friends, but not your relatives.

Pasco youngsters fond of dinosaurs and ancient mysteries found a role model Friday in anthropologist Jim Chatters.

Eight anthropologists -- including two from the Smithsonian Institution -- filed a legal request to halt the return of a 9,000- year-old skeleton to Mid-Columbia tribes.

The 9,300-year-old human skeleton found in Kennewick in July is attracting attention from London's Fleet Street to Capitol Hill.

Rep. Doc Hastings wants scientists to more closely study a 9,300-year-old human skeleton discovered in Kennewick before the remains are turned over to an American Indian tribe for reburial.

A 9,300-year-old skeleton found in July along the Columbia River in Kennewick is likely to be handed soon to the Umatilla Indians, who will bury the bones in an undisclosed location.

Northwest American Indian tribes are a step closer to claiming a 9,200-year-old skeleton found in Kennewick.

The skeleton of a prehistoric man unearthed in July in Kennewick is sparking controversy between American Indian tribes and anthropologists.

The wandering hunter was one tough hombre.

A human skull and bones found Sunday in the Columbia River appear to be old and of European descent, said a forensic anthropologist asked to study the find.

As Will Thomas waded about 10 feet offshore, his foot hit something round.