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BL
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972291
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b726661
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| Main Entry
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Benedict, Jeff.
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| Title & Author
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No bone unturned : : inside the world of a top forensic scientist and his work on America's most notorious crimes and disasters /\ Jeff Benedict.
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| Edition Statement
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1st Perennial ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, N.Y. :: Perennial,, 2004.
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| Page. NO
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xii, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, portraits ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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006095888X
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: 9780060958886
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index.
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| Contents
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High-stakes playground -- Opening coffins -- Bone fragments -- Going to Guatemala -- Outsmarting the devil -- Into the crypt -- Building people -- Remains of the day -- The probe -- Evil is real -- Unwrapping a mummy -- Somebody else is here -- Humans remain -- Airfare for a skeleton -- Destination unknown -- Rush to repatriate -- We know how time began -- The client -- Senior girl -- Eight men out -- About-face -- Where did you get these Africans? -- Turning the lights on -- Stand and fight -- Intent -- Science evolves -- Virtual reality -- The cover-up -- Lie detector -- Skin thickness -- Objection -- One look -- Going deep -- Spin cycle -- Show time -- White House involvement -- What you see here stays here -- In demand -- The decision.
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| Abstract
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"A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases--from mass graves uncovered in Croatia to the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon--and has examined historic skeletons tens of thousands of years old. But the discovery of Kennewick Man, a 9,600-year-old human skeleton found along the banks of Washington's Columbia River, was a find that would turn Owsley's life upside down. Days before Owsley was scheduled to study the skeleton, the government seized it to bury Kennewick Man's bones on the land of the Native American tribes who claimed him. Along with other leading scientists, Owsley sued the U.S. government over custody. Concerned that knowledge about our past and our history would be lost forever if the bones were reburied, Owsley fought a legal and political battle for six years, putting everything at risk, jeopardizing his career and his reputation."--Book cover.
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Owsley, Douglas W.
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Owsley, Douglas W.
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Cultural property-- Repatriation-- United States.
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Forensic anthropology.
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Human remains (Archaeology)-- Repatriation-- Washington (State)
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Indians of North America-- Antiquities-- Collection and preservation.
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Indians-- Origin.
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Kennewick Man.
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Antiquities.
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Cultural property-- Repatriation.
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Forensic anthropology.
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Human remains (Archaeology)-- Repatriation.
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Indians of North America-- Antiquities-- Collection and preservation.
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Indians-- Origin.
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Kennewick Man.
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Washington (State), Antiquities.
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United States.
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Washington (State)
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| Dewey Classification
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363.25
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930.10973
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| LC Classification
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HV8073.B45 2004
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