Kennewick Man, the roughly 9,000-year-old human skeleton discovered in Washington State in 1996, has had his day in court and now appears headed for the laboratory. On Aug. 30, a federal judge overturned a Department of Interior decision to give the ancient remains to a coalition of Native American tribes for reburial.
The group of eight researchers that originally filed the lawsuit now has 45 days to submit to the judge a plan for studying the specimen.
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