Synopsis

In 1996, a body discovered near Kennewick, Washington, was initially identified by forensic anthropologists as belonging to a Caucasian individual – only to be revealed as nearly ten thousand years old. For half a century, the prevailing understanding of prehistoric America had posited that its earliest inhabitants were of East Asian, mongoloid descent, the ancestors of today’s Native Americans. However, the discovery of the Kennewick Man, alongside several other remarkable finds in recent years