Kennewick Man is finally getting some serious study...

...after years of legal battles. Sandi Doughton has the story in The Seattle Times.

Doug Owsley, by the way, was the forensic anthropologist who worked on the extremely deteriorated skeletal material we unearthed at the cemetery of Fort Ross State Historic Park in the early 1990s when the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ran an archaeological field school there under professor Lynne Goldstein and then-doctoral candidate Sannie K. Osborn.

Fort Ross, which is on the coast about 80 miles north of San Francisco, was the furthest outpost of the Russian empire, set up in 1812 both as a spot for gathering furs and as a farm to provide food for more northern fur stations. Unfortunately the local gophers helped eat the wheat and after the sea otters were wiped out the fort lost money hand over fist. In 1841 the Russians sold the fort to John Sutter of Sutter's Mill fame.

UPDATE: One nite at Fort Ross Doug Owsley gave a great slide lecture around the campfire right after dinner, entitled something like "Murder Victims I have Known." Definitly not for the squeamish, especially after a couple of beers. Very interesting tho.

Well, it is if you are interested in the unnatural processes of anatomical delapidation, of course. Otherwise possibly not.

Apparently shooting someone in the head can cause a web of cracks to form so fast that they reach the other side of the skull before the bullet does. Multiple bullets, multiple webs. But because the preceeding cracks act as barriers to later ones, you can use the patterns to deternine the order in which the bullets were fired. Pretty interesting stuff. Unless it's your head, maybe. In that case, probably not.