No Bone Unturned - Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America

"A fast and exciting read. . . . This survey of Owsley''s career will appeal to both science and legal buffs." --Publishers Weekly The story of the Smithsonian''s brilliant forensic anthropologist and the 9,000-year-old skeleton that sparked his landmark lawsuit against the U.S. government When he is not studying ancient skeletons, Doug Owsley is enlisted by the State Department and the FBI to identify remains. He has worked on some of the most notorious tragedies in recent history--Bosnia, Waco, 9/11 and Jeffrey Dahmer''s victims among them. When an anthropologist in Kennewick, WA, calls Owsley to help study a 9,000 year-old caucasoid skeleton, he gets caught up in a battle against the Justice Department and Indian tribes who claim the skeleton is Native American and should be buried and not analyzed. Owsley, backed by scientists worldwide, files suit against the government and is now at the forefront of a landmark case--currently pending a ruling in the U.S. District Court--that may alter repatriation laws and have a significant impact on the classic views of Native Americans, migration patterns, and anthropology, as well as our understanding of prehistory.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Benedict, Benedict Jeff
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.04.2004
• EAN: 9780060958886
• ISBN: 978-0-06-095888-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, Science: general issues, True Crime, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Anthropology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, History of Medicine, Indigenous Peoples, History of Science, History of Education, Ancient World, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social, group or collective psychology, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, General and world history, History of the Americas, North America (USA and Canada), Biography: historical, political and military, Relating to Native American people, HISTORY: WORLD, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, SCIENCE: General, HISTORY: North America, HISTORY: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Anthropology / General, MEDICAL: History