Mike Lee Herald staff writer Kennewick Man is going to college. But first he's got learn how he did on his last exam.
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Rowe and co-author Philip L. Stein aren't the first to notice how the Kennewick skeleton embodies several controversial issues of history and anthropology. For the last two years, students across the country have discussed a related court case that pits the tribes and federal government against prominent university scientists who want to study the bones found on the banks of the Columbia River. But making it into a tome by one of the nation's text book giants takes Kennewick Man to another level of social consciousness. McGraw-Hill expects to sell about 12,000 copies of its seventh edition of Physical Anthropology to U.S. and Canadian universities, said Miriam Beyer, editorial assistant in New York. Rowe, of Los Angeles Pierce College, said Kennewick Man deserves a book of his own, given all the issues he brings up about the settlement of the New World.