Posted on 05/20/2022 8:52:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Renville County authorities said they got quite a surprise after asking the FBI to help identify a partial skull found along the Minnesota River last summer.
The bone turned up as the water receded during last summer's drought, and was spotted by passing kayakers. Renville County Sheriff Scott Hable said his agency got the bone and turned it over to a medical examiner, and eventually to the FBI, wondering if it could be linked to a recent missing person case.
Instead, Hable said, they found something else...
He said the FBI report included that the man likely ate a marine diet including maize and sorghum, and that his skull had a “defect” that was “perhaps suggestive of the cause of death.”
The county's Facebook post on the discovery drew criticism from Native Minnesotans, who said their ancestral remains shouldn't be shared online.
“We had no idea but we were alerted to the fact that that Facebook post was offensive to one or more people and so we have since taken that post down. We didn’t mean for it to be offensive whatsoever,” Hable said...
In a statement, Minnesota Indian Affairs Council Cultural Resources Specialist Dylan Goetsch said neither the council nor the state archaeologist were made aware of the discovery as required by state law.
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Probably a Viking that got lost.....................
My father was in the Marines. If he was still alive I could ask him about the Marine diet.
And the rest of the skull belongs to … jimmy hoffa?
Is this suppose to be one of the Clovis people from Alaska?
It’s no use trying to convince the local tribesmen that the remains are totally unrelated to them.
My thought too! Let’s do the DNA on this skull to see how European or Siberian/Indian this 8000 year old dude was. My bet is European, and the local natives will raise a ruckus. Because it dilutes their claim of being the First Americans.
Clovis was first identified in NM, and vanished long before this guy did.
The skull still had a Wellstone button on him...
Now that whole area is “sacred” ground.
I spent a few summers stumbling around the west taking landscape photos. I got real sick of being told places were “sacred ground” for no other reason than “they don’t want YOU on it.”
Of course…for $25 it becomes less sacred.
Thanks for the ping.
I didn’t do it. I was in Spain at that time.
5.56mm
LOLOL!
Clovis people were not in Alaska-those people were Aleuts, Tlingit and other Athabascans-Clovis people were found in New Mexico-both groups were from someplace in Asia, but probably not the same place...
The “offended Natives” really need to shut up about anything posted when something like this happens-there is the skull of a murder victim-found in the same area as there is a missing person-DUH! Until the skull was dated, it was part of a probable crime scene...
A “marine diet” includes corn and sorghum? You sure can get anything past the FBI, can you?
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