The First Americans.

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  • Author(s): Begley, Sharon; Murr, Andrew
  • Source:
    Newsweek (Pacific Edition). 06/07/99 (Pacific Edition), Vol. 133 Issue 23, p38. 8p. 19 Color Photographs, 1 Map.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      NATIVE Americans -- Origin; DILLEHAY, Tom; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY
    • Subject Terms:
      NORTH America
    • Abstract:
      Discusses recent archeological findings that have raised questions on the origin of the Native Americans. Discovery of a 9,400 year-old Native American anthropologist named Spirit Caveman; Questions raised about who the first Americans were, sparking a so-called 'skull war'; The different theories of the peopling of the Americas including the 'Clovis model'; Discovery of Kennewick Man whose skeletons are unlike any other single tribe; Predictions of how the people of the Stone Age lived by Tom Dillehay.