Doug Gilford's Mad Cover Site. Home - Horror film props, Memorabilia, Movie Props, Movie costumes, Rare props. Kennewick Man. The skeleton is nearly complete, missing only the sternum and a few small bones of hands and feet. All teeth were present at the time of death. This was a male of late middle age (40-55 years), and tall (170 to 176 cm ), slender build. He had suffered numerous injuries, the most severe of which were compound fractures of at least 6 ribs and apparent damage to his left shoulder musculature, atrophy of the left humerus due to the muscle damage, and the healing projectile wound in his right pelvis.
The lack of head flattening from cradle board use, minimal arthritis in weight-bearing bones, and the unusually light wear on his teeth distinguish the behavior and diet of Kennewick Man from that of more recent peoples in the region. The man lacks definitive characteristics of the classic mongoloid stock to which modern Native Americans belong. Current Status The Unknown and Unknowable Much, however, is beyond our reach regardless of political outcomes. Reference Turner, Cristy G. Bio James C. List of largest empires. An empire involves the extension of a state's sovereignty over external territories and variety of different ethnic groups. The term "empire" does not have a precise definition, but is generally applied to political entities that are considered to be especially large by the standards of their time and that have acquired a significant part of their territory by conquest.
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