Video: Discover Magazine - The Earliest Immigrants

Summary:

Description: Two men stumbled across a skull in the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Their 1996 discovery then turned up 350 more bone fragments. A scientist put the bones together and made a remarkable discovery. Find out what the skeleton's clues tell us about migration to North America. © 2004 Discovery Channel School Grades: 6-8     

Segments:

An Unusual Discovery (02:22)
Kennewick Man (07:23)
Let the Bones Speak (03:17)
X-Rays and Cat Scans (02:15)
Carbon-14 Dating (01:50)
How the First Immigrants Came to America (00:44)
Controversy: Native American Burial Rights (04:18)
Forensic Anthropology (07:08)
Analyzing a Skull (03:07)
Drawing Conclusions and Making Connections to the Past (04:01)