Jerome Carl Rose is a retired professor of anthropology and esteemed researcher in his field. He received a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1969, an M.A. in Physical Anthropology in 1971, and a Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology in 1973, both from the University of Massachusetts. He became an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas in 1976, Associate Professor in 1979, and was a Professor at the university from 1992-2015. He also served as Chairman to the Department of Anthropology for two periods and received the title of University Professor at U of A from 2015 until his retirement in 2019. He has published and served as an editor and author on many books, monographs, and symposia throughout his career. Rose obtained several grants for bioarcheology and skeletal analysis projects that took him and students abroad to Jordan and Egypt for excavating skeletal remains. In Jordan, he partnered with Yarmouk University to establish a field school to work on excavation sites from 1994-2007. In Egypt, he, his colleagues, and students, worked on excavation sites of an ancient civilization called Hierakonpolis from 1996-2006. They conducted detailed analyses of skeletal remains which can be found in reports, x-rays, and photographs in this collection. Rose also conducted research with students at the Tell Ibrahim Awad (TIA) burial site in Egypt from 1999-2007. Rose was selected by the U.S. National Parks Service in 1996 to help analyze recently discovered human remains by the bank of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington. The project took place from 1998-2000 but further analyses were done by various researchers including Rose. The remains were named "Kennewick Man" and Rose and his team determined Kennewick Man to have lived 8-9,000 years ago and was indigenous to the Americas. The consensus was that Kennewick Man descended from the Ainu (aboriginals of Japan) or Polynesian peoples. However, in 2015, scientists in Denmark determined through DNA that the bones were more likely related to the Confederated Tribes of The Colville Reservation. Following this discovery, and a decade long federal court battle between Indigenous American tribes and the United States Army Corps of Engineers who owned the land the remains were found on, the U.S. Congress passed legislation to return the bones to a coalition of Columbia Basin tribes for reburial according to their traditions. The remains were buried in 2017 at an undisclosed location in the area. Still, Rose continued to analyze findings and reports on Kennewick Man, and disputed that the remains are genetically related to indigenous peoples of today.