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Chatters immediately suspected that Kennewick Man was an ancient skeleton.Answer
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B) had the power to enforce its resolutions
C) made it illegal to sell copies of antiquities
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C) Evolutionary archaeology
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A) Puerto Escondito
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A) skeletons
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