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NEO-KON-TIKI Adventurer and writer Jon Turk reads from and discusses “In the Wake of the Jomon” (McGraw-Hill), his exploration of the 3,000-mile path taken by Kennewick Man, a Jomon man whose skull was discovered on the banks of the Columbia River in 1996. Mr. Turk retraced the 9,500-year-old journey in an open boat, to Alaska from Japan by way of Siberia and the Bering Strait. Tonight, 7 p.m., the Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. at Tenth Avenue, 212-462-4300, free.
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