No Bone Unturned: Inside the World
of a Top Forensic Scientist and His
Work on Americas Most Notorious
Crimes and Disasters by Jeff
Benedict
Better Than A Novel
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 Washingtons Columbia River, was a find that would
turn Owsleys life upside down.

Days before Owsley was scheduled to study the skeleton, the
government seized it to bury Kennewick Mans 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.
Personal Review: No Bone Unturned: Inside the World of a Top
Forensic Scientist and His Work on Americas Most Notorious
Crimes and Disasters by Jeff Benedict
I have read several books on the Kennewick man discovery and
controversy and this is the absolute best for the average layman! Dates in
the book are explained as all given in "real years" not in "radiocarbon
years" and the book is such a page turner, so enthralling, that you can't put
it down! Covers the life of Dr. Doug Owsley of the Smithsonian Institute,
one of the men who sued the federal govt. to stop the burial of the
Kennewick skeleton. The book covers Owsley's early life briefly, how he
was interested in science and bones from an early age, and went on to
excell in school and become one of the nations most trusted experts on
bones and forensics, helping also to identify the blown up and burned body
parts from the Branch Davidian fire in Waco, Texas, to other noble and
beneficial works he has done for people, using his expertise in identifing
human remains.
If you have any interst in the Spirit Cave mummy, or the Kennewick man,
or forensics, you will certainly enjoy this extraordinary book. I firmly
believe it to be the best book I have yet read on the Kennewick man
controversy. The revelations in the book will blow your mind!
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