Kayakers find an 8,000-year-old human skull in Minnesota River

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Kayakers find an 8,000-year-old human skull in Minnesota River
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The sheriff's office thought the skull might belong to a missing person. Then a report came back.

Renville County had no active missing person cases, Hable said, but a neighboring county had one from a few years ago. Maybe, officials thought, this could solve the case., which leverages the fact that a radioactive substance called carbon-14 absorbed by all living things decays at a predictable rate in a dead body. Based onAuthorities traced the river remains to Minnesota’s Archaic period, which stretches from.

Researchers have struggled to glean information about Archaic period lives, Buhta said, especially in comparison to later humans who buried their dead in large mounds. “There just weren’t as many people on the landscape,” he said, “and it’s older, so we just don't find as much evidence.” said in a statement that it was “unacceptable and offensive” for tribes to learn of the skull through Facebook, according to Minnesota news organizationGoetsch, who did not respond to a request for comment Thursday evening, also criticized the social media post as culturally insensitive for not describing the remains as Native American.

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