Ground to the bone, the teeth of the famous fossil skeleton, Kennewick Man, look as if they’ve spent a lifetime gnashing rocks.
But it’s from these worn choppers that Thomas Stafford Jr., a research fellow in the department of geology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president of Stafford Research Laboratories in Boulder, Colo., plans to learn about the origins, movement and lifestyle of this highly controversial, 9,000-year-old North American.