{"id":1485896,"date":"2022-05-20T13:15:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485896"},"modified":"2022-05-20T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T17:15:24","slug":"skull-discovered-by-kayakers-turns-into-8000-year-old-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/skull-discovered-by-kayakers-turns-into-8000-year-old-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Skull Discovered By Kayakers Turns Into 8,000-Year-Old Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fskull-discovered-by-kayakers-turns-into-8000-year-old-mystery%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485896&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-11.36.42-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A skull fragment found by kayakers along the muddy banks of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/minnesota\">Minnesota River<\/a> turned out to be from a man who lived 8,000 years ago and may have been killed by a blow to the head, according to an FBI forensic expert.<\/p>\n<p>The skull fragment was exposed last September because a drought had caused the river\u2019s water level to recede, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2022\/05\/19\/part-of-skull-found-along-minnesota-river-belongs-to-man-from-8000-years-ago\">Minnesota Public Radio<\/a>. The two kayakers turned it over to the Renville County Sheriff\u2019s Office, which first passed it along to the local medical examiner, then to the FBI, thinking it could be remains of a missing person. What they learned next stunned the small southern Minnesota community some 110 miles west of Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat it was human, it was that of a young man, and, most surprisingly, that it was, they thought, about 8,000 years old,\u201d\u00a0Renville County Sheriff Scott Hable told MPR. \u201cIt was a complete shock to us that that bone was that old.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two kayakers on the Minnesota River happened upon a fragment of a human skull last year. <\/p>\n<p>Now, an FBI forensic anthropologist estimates the bone belonged to a man who lived nearly 8,000 years ago. <\/p>\n<p>STORY: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mBbmU02W6Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/mBbmU02W6Z<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ydpiq6R0Wi\">pic.twitter.com\/ydpiq6R0Wi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WCCO \u2013 CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCCO\/status\/1527012305573056512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A report from the FBI determined\u00a0that the skull had a depression likely caused by a severe head wound \u00a0 that was \u201cperhaps suggestive of the cause of death.\u201d Hable characterized the wound as \u201cblunt force trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kathleen Blue, a professor of anthropology at Minnesota State University, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/19\/us\/minnesota-human-skull.html\">The New York Times<\/a> the man likely would have eaten a diet of plants, deer, fish, turtles, and freshwater mussels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s probably not that many people at that time wandering around Minnesota 8,000 years ago, because, like I said, the glaciers have only retreated a few thousands years before that,\u201d Blue said. \u201cThat period, we don\u2019t know much about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blue speculated that the skull might have drifted in the river for thousands of years or come loose from a \u00a0burial site near the river.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Indians blasted the local sheriff\u2019s department for sharing a photo of the skull online, claiming it was disrespectful to their ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Indian Affairs Council Cultural Resources Specialist Dylan Goetsch complained that Minnesota\u2019s tribal communities only learned of the discovery after seeing the sheriff\u2019s Facebook post, which he called \u201cunacceptable and offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hable said his agency will turn the remains over to Upper Sioux Community tribal officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d Hable said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t mean for it to be offensive whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A skull fragment found by kayakers along the muddy banks of the Minnesota River turned out to be from a man who lived 8,000 years ago and may have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1485939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}