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  Kenneth B. Tankersley, Ph.D., anthropologist, Director, Native American Studies Program, Northern Kentucky University; a research associate of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History; Executive Board Member, Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission; and Executive Board Member, Kentucky Center for Native American Art and Culture. Author of:



A new exciting ethnological study on the most prominent Native American leader in the 19th century, 2006. The loss of Sitting Bull’s ceremonial pipe and its rediscovery is a story equal to a scientific mystery case, an exciting detective account stuffed with lies and crime.
http://www.tatankapress.com/new.htm

His research has been featured on National Geographic Explorer, the Discovery Channel, All Things Considered, Nova, and Animal Planet. His works include In Search of Ice Age Americans, 2002.

He lives in Kentucky and descends from Jesse Brock, Revolutionary soldier. He also has Cherokee blood from the Benge, Cochran, Robinson, and Tankersley sides of his family.

In Search of Ice Age Americans

Kenneth B. Tankersley, Ph.D.

 

Dr. Ken Tankersley, holding the torch, when working with National Geographic while filming a scene of Cherokee crystal mining.

Photo by Gary Emerson, 1991

 Kenneth B. Tankersley, Ph.D., anthropologist, Natural History Unit, BBC, Northern Kentucky University, is a research associate of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. His research has been featured on National Geographic Explorer, the Discovery Channel, All Things Considered, and Nova. He lives in Kentucky and descends from Jesse Brock, Revolutionary soldier, and also has Cherokee blood from the Benge, Cochran, Robinson, and Tankersley sides of his family.

In Search of Ice Age Americans
by Kenneth Tankersley
ISBN: 1-58685-021-0 7.5 x 9 in. , 256 pages

Who were the first Americans? Where did they come from? When did they arrive? In this dramatic reconstruction of the daily lives of the earliest Americans, leading anthropologist Kenneth Tankersley tackles those questions, explaining how people survived the Ice Age and forever altered the course of human history. Drawing on more than two decades of fieldwork around the world, Tankersley takes readers on an exciting journey into American’s most ancient human past—from the deep recesses of underground caverns in the east to the mountains and deserts of the West—providing a behind-the-scenes look at the search, discovery, and examination of Ice Age sites and artifacts. Based on the author’s unique mix of archaeology, anthropology, and history, In Search of Ice Age Americans provides the most current theories and answers to the fundamental questions of our past. This is the first book to tell the real stories behind America’s most important archaeological discoveries by those who made them.

Kenneth B. Tankersley is a member of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and a research associate of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. His research has been featured on National Geographic Explorer, the Discovery Channel, All Things Considered, and Nova. He lives in Kentucky.

Check out the Discovery Channel's website for more information on the new program "What Killed the Mega Beasts?" the companion show to Tankersley's new book!

 

Hardcover, 50 Color/ 32 Black & White Photographs and Line Drawings, $24.95

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Book Review at: http://www.friendsofpast.org/forum/Ken.html

Profile of Ken Tankersley at: http://www.horizons.uc.edu/Arts3-03/10artists/Outside7docu.htm

 Following pages used by permission of Kenneth B. Tankersley, Ph.D., anthropologist, Natural History Unit, BBC, Northern Kentucky University

RED BIRD (Dotsuwa)

 Yahoo Falls by Kenneth B. Tankersley

 Kentucky's Native Past, by Kenneth B. Tankersley

 Kinship Notes, by Kenneth B. Tankersley

NOTES: Kentucky Treaties, by Kenneth B. Tankersley

 Cherokee Syllabary, by Dr. Tankersley

 Kinship & Brock Cherokee Nation Enrollment, by Dr. Tankersley