But in case after case, Indian creationism is being used to forbid the study of prehistoric skeletons so old that it would be impossible to establish a direct tribal affiliation.

He has also studied many collections, including prehistoric and historic skeletons, from the United States, Denmark, Saipan, and Egypt.

Both look like prehistoric skeletons from natural history museums that would be kept from the public because of their freakishness.

Its main exhibit is a prehistoric Woolly Mammoth skeleton uncovered in western Kenosha in 1992.

Archaeological evidence of prehistoric warfare is largely incomplete, primarily because prehistoric skeletons, which might bear traces of violent traumas, rarely survive in the Finnish soil.

At trade shows and auctions here and abroad, exotica of all sorts, from dinosaur eggs to prehistoric skeletons, starred as the collectibles of the 1990's.

You can see unearthed prehistoric skeletons of hundreds of animals, including rhinoceroses, buried 12 million years ago by ash from a Pompeii-like explosion in what is now Idaho.

Already, hundreds of less-renowned prehistoric skeletons have been turned over by museums for Indian burial.

Among permanent exhibits are prehistoric skeletons and a re-creation of an Egyptian tomb.

The lower jaw and teeth, and a large number of the limbs bones were peculiar to prehistoric skeletons in Western Europe.