anxieties about identity and history, and i stumbled into, through this, through the story of kenny wickman. you may remember we found a skeleton on the banks of a river in washington. a local amateur archaeologist was the first to get it. put it on the table, and to the first person within an earshot of him, he announced the skeleton had quote "cockazoid-like features," and this rolled into modern media and turned into a great snowball of amateur genealogy in history. every magazine that you probably ever heard of wrote a story about how there now appeared to be a pre-native american population on the planet, a group that predated. they show the spearheads that date back 12,000 years, around the time that we think that asian populations crossed through alaska, the straits, and arrived here and eventually became native americans. these people are arguing, or this word seems to suggest that there was a population already here when they arrived, and that some of them lived overlapped and died, the skellton that's 8,000 years old, lived to be a few thousand years into the new era before being