When two young men who were sneaking into a boat race accidentally uncovered a skeleton along a bank of the columbia river in kennewick, Washington, in 1996, they had no idea of the impact their discovery would have. The...When two young men who were sneaking into a boat race accidentally uncovered a skeleton along a bank of the columbia river in kennewick, Washington, in 1996, they had no idea of the impact their discovery would have. The bones were those of one of the oldest and most complete skeletons ever recovered in the u.s. And led to one of the most important archaeological controversies of modern times.