" this skeleton is so amazing , " doug owsley , physical anthropologist at the smithsonian institution ' s national museum of natural history , told the seattle times 该项目的研究人员之一美国史密森学会国家自然历史博物馆的人类学家道格拉斯奥斯利对此表示，这具骸骨非常令人惊讶。
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Kennewick man was laid parallel to the river , on his back - his legs extended , arms at his sides and palms resting on the earth , owsley said . the skeleton was discovered in 1996 in the columbia river 肯纳威克人的尸体被放置的与哥伦比亚河相平行，他的头朝向河的上游，而且他头部较之脚部的位置要稍高一些，两手放在身体的两侧。
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Owsley told the annual meeting of the american academy of forensic sciences that painstaking examination of the bones showed the body was placed in a shallow grave about 400 yards from where scientists believe the columbia river was at the time 奥斯利还说，他们对这具遗骨进行的研究显示，在9000多年之前，肯纳威克人的尸体被其他一些人放置在一个很浅的墓穴中。这个墓穴距离当时的哥伦比亚河大约400码1码约合0 . 914米。
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U . s . scientists studying the 9 , 200 - year - old kennewick man say the man was deliberately buried - not just covered over with sediment . " this skeleton is so amazing , " doug owsley , physical anthropologist at the smithsonian institution ' s national museum of natural history , told the seattle times 美国科学家在对著名的肯纳威克人遗骨进行研究后，于日前表示，数千年前，这名男子死后是被其他人埋葬在一个墓穴之中的，而并非是被自然沉积物所覆盖的。
